Michael Chichi :: Designer, Artist, Writer, Photographer + Musician

10+ years involvement in crafting experiences and seeking to make the complex clear & beautiful. Currently an independent creative based in Amsterdam, NL.

Interested in hearing about potential projects which would benefit from qualities of 'High Touch' & 'High Concept'. If you have such a project, please email me(at)michaelchichi(dot)com

High concept involves the capacity to detect patterns and opportunities, to create artistic and emotional beauty, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to combine seemingly unrelated ideas into something new.

High touch involves the ability to empathize with others, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one’s self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning. – Dan Pink in 'A Whole new Mind'

Experience

:: 2005 - 2007
Director of Experience Design for BlastRadius Europe, based in Amsterdam. Clients include : Virgin, Friction.tv, Sony, TomTom & Nintendo.

:: 2000 - 2005
Creative Director for Razorfish in San Francisco. (previously marchFIRST) Major client engagements include: Red Bull, Samsung, Visa, Sun, SF Int’l Film Festival, Microsoft, Apple, Dentsu, Levi’s Dockers, Pixar, and mLife.

:: 1999 - 2000
Art Director and one of the founding members of ArtandCulture.com, the ambitious award-winning contextual & associative guide to the arts.

:: 1997 - 1999
Interaction Designer at Landor Associates, one of the most internationally recognized branding and design consultancies in the world.

:: 1995 - present
Operating as an independent creative under Counterform since '95. Clients : Harman Multimedia, San Francisco Film Society, Freak Daddy films, and Matador Records.

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International awards and distinctions from I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, The Art Director's Club, SXSW, The One Show and How Design. Has appeared in various publications such as Communication Arts, Internet World, NY Times, ID Magazine, Wired, Web Artistry: More than Code, TheRemediProject, and Design Interact. In addition, he is an accomplished photographer & filmmaker. With work for Matador Records, Dentsu Advertising, mLife, Leah C Couture of NYC & The San Francisco Film Society. His photography has also been published in GQ Germany, BeautyisDivine. Film work includes loops/projections for the BlueStudio and the Blackwell Files Casting Agency. And direction of a video piece for Visa USA.

He served as a judge for the 2002 Web International Awards. And has frequently critiqued student work for the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC) and San Francisco State’s Multimedia program.