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LIFE: Roy Montibon | Bio  Roy at the Plaza on his HD 1200N Roy Montibon A true 21st Century American, Roy is a confluence of genes and influences from across Asia, America, Europe and the Pacific. He got his start as a professional artist custom painting Harleys and hot rods as a teenager. Since graduating from Art Center College of Design, Roy's career has encompassed design, animation, art direction and creative direction, and has taken many forms - as consultant, corporate executive, entrepreneur, educator and arts advocate.RECOGNITION His work and projects have been recognized and featured in the Graphis Design Annual, ID Magazine of International Design, the Communication Arts Illustration Annual, The Los Angeles Times, Computer Graphics and Applications Magazine, Downtown LA News, The Las Vegas Optic, The Orange County Business Journal, The Los Angeles Business Journal, and on ABC News and Fox News broadcasts. ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY Roy currently heads The Montibon Company, LLC, a strategic identity, brand and experience design consultancy. His offices are located at Sanctuary Studios. Roy is also the co-founder of Royal Mastodon Society, LLC, an art space, design showroom and performance venue. Over the last decade, he has co-founded and served as Creative Director for Vox Mundi, a digital media studio; New Archetype, Inc., a media property development corporation; and Morpheus Worldwide, LLC, an online marketing agency. CORPORATE MANAGEMENT As Customer Experience Architect for CarsDirect.com, Roy developed the American Highways road trip promotion series featuring Porsche and Mercedes Benz vehicles, provided information architecture for the Drive Like a King promotion featuring Richard Petty, and directed a variety of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) integration initiatives. As Creative Director for Key3Media Events, Roy oversaw creative teams on both coasts; guided Web design, development and database functionality initiatives for COMDEX, Networld + Interop, and Seybold Seminars Web sites; worked directly with CEO Fred Rosen on special projects; and worked with Cap Gemini/Ernst & Young consultants and internal technical teams on IBM WebSphere-based CRM systems integration. CONSULTING & PROJECTS Roy has contributed design, art direction, creative direction and/or experience design to print, video, exhibit and/or online projects for PacBell, Texas Instruments, JVC, RainBird International, UCLA Capital Programs, Northern Telecom, American Express, High Voltage Interactive, BBDO, GE Credit Corporation, University of Phoenix, CalFed Bank, Photonic Data Security, Toyota Motor Sales, and Hyundai Motor America. He has also served as Creative Director for prototypes and pilots for: an online mystery contest based upon western gold mining history; GolfersLife, (an international online golf expo hosted by Chi Chi Rodriguez); and Romantica, (a prototype online showcase for limited-edition art, handmade crafts and home furnishings). Roy is currently providing strategic consulting and creative direction for identity, brand marketing, design and communications in the education, high technology, and fine art markets; and is part of a small core team leading the development of a high-end NIST-certified mobile data security product. He is renovating and converting a former church into a live/work studio and gallery space; renovating a 5,000 sq. ft. stone building (circa 1890) into two live/work studio/gallery spaces; and is writing a book for creative professionals about designing contexts that transform creative vision into intended experiences. TEACHING & SYMPOSIA DEVELOPMENT He has taught at UCLA Extension for over 21 years. During that time, Roy has organized and moderated special programs, developed curriculum and taught Graphic Design, Interactive Media, Web Design, Information Architecture, Experience Design and Creative Process courses to over 6,000 students and design professionals from organizations including, Geocities, Disney, Time Warner, Pacific Bell, American Express, Rockwell International, Ogilvy Mather, Toyota Motor Sales, TBWA Chiat/Day, The Los Angeles Times, The Rand Corporation, Symantec, JPL, Apple Computer, ABC, 3com, US Web/CKS, IBM and AT&T. In 1999, he was honored as Instructor of the Year by the UCLA Extension Visual Arts Department. Roy has also taught at Chapman University and has spoken at digital media events held at UC Irvine, Occidental College, USC, Cal State Long Beach, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Coro Foundation, The American Film Institute and at the Governor's Conference on the Arts special program "Beyond the Millennium: Redefining the Arts for the 21st Century". Roy has produced, directed and moderated international design symposia featuring keynotes by renowned artist/composer/record producer Brian Eno, science fiction author Ray Bradbury, Swiss designer Wolfgang Weingart, and computer graphics visionary and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Jim Blinn of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and many others. Roy recently spoke at ArtsDay LA, hosted by UCLA Extension, on the topic of "Where Do Artists Get Their Inspiration?", and was the featured graduation speaker at the UCLA Extension Computer Graphics and Graphic Design 2004 graduation ceremony. He is currently teaching three 12- week online courses for UCLA Extension: The Creative Process; Powerful Design; and Fundamentals of Design. BOARDS & COMMUNITY ACTIVITY He is currently serving on the Board of Directors for MainStreet Las Vegas (a local program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation), where he led the effort to draft SPACE | Las Vegas (Strategic Plan for an Arts & Culture Environment). The SPACE document was used as the backbone of an application for an Arts & Cultural District Designation from the State of New Mexico. The application was selected, and the designation was awarded by Lt. Governor Diane Denish and three Cabinet Secretaries. The selection committee included the New Mexico MainStreet / Economic Development Department; Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA); New Mexico Arts Division (DCA); New Mexico Tourism Department; New Mexico Museum Foundation; McCune Foundation; and New Mexico Arts Commission. Roy currently serves as Chair of the New Mexico Arts & Cultural District | Las Vegas Steering Committee. Until recently Roy served as an elected member of the Center City Redevelopment Project Area Committee for the Community Redevelopment Agency in Downtown Los Angeles. He has also served on the board of LA Freewaves, a media arts organization that hosts the largest independent international media arts festival in the U.S.; and Roy has served as the Mission Statement Ad Hoc Committee Chair for the Arts, Aesthetics and Culture Committee and was an alternate Arts/Culture/Education Representative for the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council. Roy has hosted two AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) studio tours of the Old Bank District. Roy was the founder and producer the Old Bank District Artwalk in Historic Downtown for its first four years ("A new tradition" according to Los Angeles Magazine). PRO BONO WORK Roy has contributed time and expertise to pro bono projects for The Museum of Contemporary Art (for the Streb/Ringside Dance Company of New York), Mozart Camerata, Opera Pacific and The Orange County Performing Arts Center. FINE ART Roy is also a practicing artist focused on the mythic and memetic sources of culture, it's development, fragmentation and the subsequent rise and dissemination of discrete and recombinant micro-cultures. Exhibitions and installations include: The SIGGRAPH Conference Art Show; The Long Beach Museum of Art, Video Annex; "Dark Tapestries" installation with composer Paul Haslinger at Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra University; The University of Oregon Museum of Art; Bowers Museum; Modern Museum of Art; LA Printmakers Society Show; The Old Bank District Group Show; and The Farmer's and Merchant's Bank Centennial Art Exhibit. His first computer system, a Via Video System One, one of the very first color paint systems ever made, has been accepted for inclusion in the collection of the Computing Museum of America, in San Diego. PERSONAL INTERESTS Roy enjoys art, music, literature, film, and live theater; backpacking, mountain biking and travel; and has an incurable passion for motorcycles, hot rods and Top Fuel drag racing. [ Return to The Montibon Company homepage ] Copyright © 2008, The Montibon Company, LLC / Roy Montibon, All rights reserved. |