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Design.
Direction.
Strategy.

I’m a creative director with 20 years of experience designing brands from positioning to design to guidance and production. Growing up between the incessant blare of kitchen radio golden oldies and the dawn of MTV inside my living room created an indescribable love of bold choices, infectious hooks, and how unique perspectives can create widely resonating affection. Pop, poetry, metaphor, rhythm, structure, and collaboration inspire everything about how I approach creative work.

I began my career in 2005 at Wolff Olins New York. There I had the opportunity to work on notable projects such as Product Red, major rebrands of AOL and Microsoft, in addition to NGO, non-profit, banking and consumer brands. As a partner, I lead design and branding at Stack, a boutique studio specializing design and film for clients such as Compass, Zocdoc, and PBS, and lean branding projects for various upstarts and local restaurants.

I’m currently Creative Director at Selman, where we’ve consulted and supported as agency of record for Google’s Creative Lab, brand, marketing, and product teams for many years running. Other notable clients include the NYSE listing day campaign for Kenvue (of Johnson&Johnson), and editorial outlets such MIT Technology Review, Wall St Journal, and Fortune Magazine.

Email: jpchirdon@gmail.com