Brian Collins

Creative Director / Executive / Designer / Educator

Experience working with driven global leaders, tough boards of directors, demanding CEOs, hard-driving founders, picky investors, obsessive designers, sensitive writers, insane technologists, famous architects, genius engineers, challenging artists, visionary directors, real strategists, passionate up-and-comers, talented misfits, gifted prima-donnas, generous teachers and eager students.

Experience in technology products & services, fashion, retail, food, automotive, and consumer.

Client experience: Spotify, Google, Target, Facebook, Airbnb, Everlane, IBM, Microsoft, LVMH, Vera Wang, Giorgio Armani, Aldo, Levi Strauss & Co., Coca-Cola, Dupont, Hershey, Unilever, Starwood Hotels, BlackRock, AT&T, UPS, American Express, iShares, Mattel, CNN, Lionsgate, MTV, Amazon.com, Barclays, Jim Beam, Jaguar, Ford, The Walt Disney Company, Avon, NBC Universal, Miller Brewing Co., Johnson & Johnson, Museum of Moving Image, International Olympic Committee, The Alliance for Climate Protection

Awards: Art Directors Club, Cannes, Clio, Effies, Jay Chiat Awards, One Show, D&AD, Graphis

Speaking: The World Economic Forum - Davos / China / U.A.E, U.S. Embassy / Moscow, Beijing Design Week, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Brazil Creative Week, BBC London, Columbia Business School, Princeton University, Haas School of Business at University of California, Advertising Week, AIGA, GEL Conference, How, ICOGRADA, Design Management Institute, Society of Environmental Graphic Design, Cannes, Global Shop, Walt Disney Imagineering, General Electric, McCann Erickson

Teaching: California College of the Arts (1996-98), The School of Visual Arts (2000-current)

Published: New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age, Adweek

Honors: The Massachusetts College of Art / Distinguished Alumnus, Art Center College of Design / Honorary Doctorate, National Organization for Women / Media Award

The Art Directors Club is one of the most concentrated groups of creative talent in the world, and is a gathering place for leaders in visual communication. ADC Members share the vision of our founder, Louis Pedlar, who brought his colleagues in advertising together in 1920 to dignify their profession and judge advertising art by the same stringent standards as fine art. For over ninety years ADC members have taken up Pedlar’s challenge by funding programs to Connect, Provoke and Elevate creative professionals around the world. Each year ADC brings together the best minds in the creative industries to celebrate the winners of our Annual Awards and Young Guns competitions, help a new generation of creative leaders rise up through the National Student Portfolio Reviews and Saturday Career Workshops, and celebrate the achievements of Hall of Fame inductees and GrandMasters recipients.

Professor in the Graduate Design Program.
Undergraduate Honors Class.
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