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Slipknot

Client

5B Artist Management

Scope

Creative Direction
Creative Production
Motion & Video
Digital Marketing
Web Design & Development

TEAM

5B Artist Management
Roadrunner Records
Ride or Cry

My relationship with Slipknot spans multiple album cycles. I served as creative director on digital campaigns, including the Touche Booth ARG, tied to the “All Out Life” single on Roadrunner Records. Through my years of working with the band and management, several chapters of work were built around the same premise: Slipknot’s fanbase is one of the most engaged in music, and the creative had to be worthy of that.

Slipknot needed to launch their new single in a way that matched the intensity of their fanbase, not a press rollout, a real event. I built the campaign around a fictional Halloween costume company called Touché Booth. I developed the full brand identity and a functional photo booth web app where fans could try on masks and props that subtly referenced individual band members. We built out fake social accounts across Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram, ran paid media behind the Touche brand to give it real-world legitimacy, and seeded cryptic content over several days leading up to Halloween. Clown himself operated the accounts in character, including inside the Official Slipknot Discord, where he was accidentally banned by a mod who mistook him for a spam bot.

The campaign was convincing enough that the band’s own fans couldn’t tell if it was real. When Slipknot’s official account retweeted Touche Booth on Halloween, the community broke open. Reddit threads mapped the mask-to-member connections, fan theories built in real time, and the ARG fed directly into a new website and rare merch drops, so cracking the puzzle meant access to something limited and physical. The D2C moment and the fan experience were the same event. The campaign generated press in NME and beyond before the single officially dropped. “All Out Life” launched Halloween day on Beats 1 as a World Record with Zane Lowe, and a live performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in Hollywood.

Several months later, a fully interactive website was built around their sixth studio album, We Are Not Your Kind

After leaving my agency, I was brought on independently by 5B, Slipknot’s management company, to run operations for their internal creative agency during The End, So Far cycle. In that role I led creative direction and web development across multiple projects including full website launches and interactive D2C experiences built across mysterious domain names like youcantkillme.com, where the line between fan discovery and official release was part of the design.

Olivia Rodrigo

Client

UMG Geffen

Scope

Graphic Design
Creative Production

TEAM

IHEARTCOMIX
Anthemic Agency
Whale Films
Hubba Bubba Gum

Commissioned by IHEARTCOMIX to design assets and physical products supporting the release of Olivia Rodrigo’s “drop dead,” the lead single from her third studio album. The campaign centered on two real-world activations built to get fans physically involved in the release: a multi-city gum wall installation and a global karaoke party series spanning 24 cities worldwide. “drop dead” debuted at number one in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Ireland on release.

I designed assets and physical products for the gum wall installation, which transformed pre-existing Olivia Rodrigo billboards into interactive fan installations simultaneously in Los Angeles on Melrose Avenue, Brooklyn, and Paris over the single’s release weekend in April 2026, featuring the lyric “cause i got chewing gum and a bunch of stuff i’d like to know.” Thousands of fans lined up across all three cities as the walls ran April 17–19, chewing OR-branded Hubba Bubba Bubble Tape dispensed from custom gumball machines on site and sticking it directly to the wall, slowly building a chaotic pink and purple texture around the lyric throughout each day.

Work spanned early concepting and prototyping through production-ready deliverables, including a matte vinyl-wrapped wall, flat glossy graphics, 1″ black Sintra dimensional lettering, and green turf covering the sidewalk. Print-ready files and 3D models were delivered to fabrication partners and shared across domestic and international production teams, with the walls running four hours a day across three consecutive days in three cities simultaneously.

I was brought on to design for the global karaoke party series as well, produced in partnership with TikTok and UMG Geffen Records. I designed the full suite of branded physical products across three tiers of kits: venue kits, creator kits, and fan kits, totaling 150 boxes shipped domestically and handed off to international teams for global production. Every kit shipped in a custom branded mailer box and contained custom napkins, cups, stir sticks, fabric ribbons, sticker sheets, golf pencils, balloons, Hubba Bubba Bubble Tape packs, and an invite note. Creator kits also included a custom karaoke songbook, branded mic flags, tote bags, and JBL Party Box speakers and karaoke mics, while venue kits included an 8×8 custom printed backdrop, pink stage curtains, confetti cannons, and a full suite of signage and production supplies.

Across 24 cities and 150 kits, the campaign reached creators, fans, and venues on every continent, with IHEARTCOMIX and Anthemic leading coordination across the full global rollout.

LA Phil

Scope

Creative Direction
Web Design & Development

During my time as an in-house Digital Producer at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, I led the creative and technical delivery of digital initiatives across websites, mobile apps, and audience-facing touchpoints. I worked closely with creative teams to shape the visual direction of microsites and digital campaigns, translating big ideas into polished, functional experiences. Some of my most rewarding work from that period was building interactive web experiences that brought the LA Phil’s programming and legacy to life in unexpected ways.

For Noon to Midnight, the LA Phil’s all-day festival of field recordings presented with PST ART/Getty, I co-created the Digital Meadow, an interactive experience built entirely on Google Sheets. The concept was intentional. Using an everyday, accessible platform to mirror the approachable, exploratory spirit of the festival itself. The result was something unexpected and alive, inviting audiences to discover the sounds of both natural and human-produced environments in a format nobody saw coming.

Read an interview featured in Acid Free Magazine, the official publication of the Los Angeles Archivists Collective

For Gracias Gustavo, the LA Phil’s 2025/26 season celebrating Gustavo Dudamel’s final performances after 17 years, I built an interactive timeline letting audiences revisit the full arc of his tenure. The experience guides users through key moments, milestones, and memories, capturing the legacy of a conductor who transformed both an institution and a city.

KUMO 99

Scope

Creative Direction
Web Design & Development

For KUMO 99’s album launch for PULL!, I built an official website centered around a fully interactive 3D room experience, designed in Blender and brought to life through a custom JavaScript plugin built on Three.js. The room loads directly in the browser, letting visitors navigate the space in first person, interact with clickable objects, and trigger content tied to the album world, including their upcoming tour with Machine Girl. The visual aesthetic was intentional, low poly geometry and flat shading that evokes the look of an N64 era video game. It even comes equipped with a wireframe scan effect on load and a panic button.

Motown Classic

Client

Universal Music Group

Scope

Creative Direction
Motion & Video

TEAM

Ride or Cry
Sunshine Mall

Working through my agency in partnership with Universal Music, I supported and helped develop creative direction and animation production for a 10-part animated series celebrating 60 years of Motown. Collaborating with studios including Sunshine Mall, we paired archival audio with bold, era-inspired animation, giving each episode a distinct visual style rooted in the decade it represented. I oversaw the project from concept through delivery, honoring Berry Gordy Jr.’s legacy and Motown’s cultural impact with clarity and originality.

For their Animated Classic Christmas Songs playlist, I helped produce the creative for a series of official music videos bringing a beloved catalog of Motown holiday classics to life through animation for the very first time. While Ride or Cry handled the direction, I worked closely with a group of independent animators and illustrators to craft warm, nostalgic visuals that honored the legacy of The Jackson 5, The Supremes, and The Temptations.

Usher

Client

Laffitte Management Group

Scope

Creative Direction
Creative Production
Motion & Video
Digital Marketing

TEAM

Ride or Cry
Corinne Schiavone
Brent Campanelli
Madison McKamey
Kyle Rose

I worked closely with Usher and his team across multiple productions, from brand partnership shoots to rehearsal documentation, getting close to the creative side of everything he does. Two of those projects stand out as defining moments in that collaboration.

For his Las Vegas residency announcement, I acted as executive producer and director for a crew producing a bold visual teaser that blended playful luxury with viral mischief. The video introduced the now-infamous Ush Bucks, a fictional currency that ignited widespread buzz across social media and press.

At the iHeartRadio Music Awards, I directed, produced, and shot an exclusive behind-the-scenes piece capturing Usher’s multifaceted role as both host and performer over the course of a full week. Filmed across rehearsals, dress runs, and live show moments, the piece offers an intimate, all-access look at his creative process as he prepared for the awards and the residency simultaneously.

citizens of Los Angeles

Client

citizenM Hotel

Scope

Creative Production
Experiential & Events
Motion & Video

TEAM

Ride or Cry
KesselsKramer
Corinne Schiavone

To celebrate the opening of citizenM’s downtown Los Angeles hotel, Ride or Cry, the creative agency where I served as part-owner and creative director, set out to highlight some of LA’s unsung heroes. In collaboration with KesselsKramer and local photographer Corinne Schiavone, we photographed 52 creative, enterprising, and inspiring Angelenos using Polaroids, a format rooted in the city’s casting culture. The portraits became the centerpiece of a multichannel campaign, physically displayed across every hotel window and extended through video, digital, and social platforms.

The exhibition, “citizens of”, began at citizenM’s Bowery Hotel in New York before traveling to Zurich, Copenhagen, and Seattle. Apple News called it a major artistic upgrade and a photo exhibit unlike any other. It was also featured in Creative Review, It’s Nice That, and Adweek.