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Michael Brown, Creative Director

Michael Brown is an environmental designer based in New York City with 15+ years of experience in live productions, one-time events and permanent installations. He designs immersive environments for a wide array of industries, transforming the identity of a client's brand or artist’s narrative into evocative spatial experiences.

Michael received a BA in the History of Art and Architecture from Brown University, and an MFA in Theater Arts from Brandeis University. Designing for the theater (over 200 productions, 12+ years), he collaborated with a litany of directors, designers, and writers to create collective visual narratives for the staging of dramatic texts.

He approaches designed space as a sculptural, story-telling medium that conveys a narrative and bestows a unique experience on its guests through innate qualities of light, movement and physical volumes. He creates experiential spaces by re-imagining the designed environment to embody the narrative of a new story. From this foundation, Michael has built a highly accomplished resume, designing for a diverse client list across the industries of art and fashion, theater and film, photography and video, and music and television.

His collaborative process begins with the fusion of a client’s brand identity and the inherent narrative cues a selected space provides. A mutual agreement on this story at the center of the designed experience guides the visual vocabulary of the design. The space serves as a map, lending sculptural cues to his process - physical parameters, inherent light, perforations, surfaces, and materials - while his clients’ brands serve to anchor his design choices within the selected space.

Notable clients and projects include: Miss Sixty & Sixty SpA (2009 Spring/Summer Collections. Rome, Italy), Isaac Mizrahi (Spring/Summer 2009 Collections), Etienne Russo & Adidas Y-3 (4 Seasons Collections 2006-2007), Thomas Serrano & Euro RSCG (Aston Martin 2009 Presentations, Design Pitch), Collins Design Research (CNN Grills 2008), Luke Cresswell & Steve McNicholas (Stomp Out Loud, Planet Hollywood Casino Las Vegas), Showtime Pictures (Photo Installation @ the Empire State Building), Arthur Miller & James Naughton (The Price on Broadway), David Rockwell (The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Broadway).