Michael Griffith

Current

• Group Creative Director at imc2

Past

• Sr. User Experience Director at imc2.com
• User Experience Director at imc2
• Creative Director at EDS

• Instructor at Collin County Community College
• Instructor at University of Texas, Dallas
• Advisory Board Member at Collin County Community College
• Founder at i4 media design
• Creative Director at Business Works
• Graphic Designer at EDS

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Education

• Michigan State University

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Connections

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Industry

Online Media

Michael Griffith’s Summary

All I want to do is work with cool people and build cool shit.

Michael has been designing and developing new media for 17 years, and still suffers night terrors spawned from the 16 color VGA palette. Michael's mix of strategic and conceptual design abilities, client facing skills and business sensibility make him a unique and valuable creative. He has built all forms of new media including computer based training, marketing CDs, kiosks, trade show media, web sites, hand held devices and apps. He has a unique understanding of developing for different media. Yes, even Power Point. When not designing new media, Michael is teaching others how to do it. He has taught animation, digital imaging, and web design, courses at both University of Texas Dallas and Collin County Community College. He has found teaching to be the most effective and efficient way to corrupt the minds of fledgling designers.In his spare time, Michael publishes an award winning personal design/humor site with a daily readership of almost but not quite 2,000 very easily entertained humans. Michael also maintains his non digital art skills through hand made books, illustration and photography. Michael's favorite color is the very web unsafe DFE9D0.

Oh, and Michael is known to write about himself in 3rd person on occasion.

Michael Griffith’s Specialties:

Industry experience includes Consumer Package Goods, Travel & Leisure, Telecom, Financial, OTC Pharma and B2B.

Michael Griffith’s Experience

• Group Creative Director

  imc2

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year)

  imc2 clients - Diet Coke, Nestle, Alli, Pizza Hut, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Omni Hotels, USA Hockey, P&G, Crest, Clairol, Head & Shoulders, 7-Eleven, Exxon Mobile, Samsung, Freeman

• Sr. User Experience Director

  imc2.com

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 1 month)

• User Experience Director

  imc2

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 9 months)

• Creative Director

  EDS

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

  August 1999 — January 2005 (5 years 6 months)

  As Creative Director of the User Centered Design team, Michael touched many different projects. Involvement begins with concept development and continues through construction. Ultimately, Michael was responsible for delivering a positive end user experience.
  Michael also was instrumental in the launch of Bluesphere, an EDS company based on an agency model. He was responsible for the Bluesphere identity/branding and organizational structure of the creative department.

• Instructor

  Collin County Community College

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Design industry)

  September 1994 — January 2005 (10 years 5 months)

  Michael has taught 2d animation, Interactive Design, Digital Imaging.

• Instructor

  University of Texas, Dallas

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Design industry)

  September 2001 — June 2002 (10 months)

  Michael taught Internet Studio

• Advisory Board Member

  Collin County Community College

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Design industry)

  September 1997 — September 1999 (2 years 1 month)

  Served to guide the Applied Graphic Design Technology curriculum

• Founder

  i4 media design

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  July 1997 — August 1999 (2 years 2 months)

  Michael founded i4 media design and was responsible for all aspects of multimedia development including creative direction, scheduling, construction, team selection and leadership.

• Creative Director

  Business Works

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  April 1996 — July 1997 (1 year 4 months)

  Creative direction responsibilities included; concept development, story boards, interface design, creation of content graphics, illustration, photo manipulation, leading other artists, video direction, and photography direction.

• Graphic Designer

  EDS

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

  September 1989 — May 1996 (6 years 9 months)

  Responsibilities included graphic production for web, Kiosks, CD-ROM, and multimedia presentations. Responsible for layout and design, interface design, content graphics, illustration, and 2d animation. While at EDS, he also studied instructional design and built several computer based training courses.

Michael Griffith’s Education

• Michigan State University

  BFA, Fine Arts, with and emphasis in Graphic design and photography, 1984 — 1989