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L I V E [ bio | curriculum vitae ] W O R K [ consulting services ] B U I L D [ current projects ] M A K E [ personal artwork ] C R A F T [ design + imaging work ] P L A N [ strategic plan for arts & culture ] S H A R E [ activities | advisory work ] T H I N K [ classes | workshops | symposia ] S P E A K [ interviews ] V O I C E [ commentary ] M E M E [ insights | ruminations ] L I N K [ random connections ] ::::::::::: H O O D [ second saturdays artwalk ] [ old bank district artwalk ] C R I B [ sanctuary studios ] [ royal mastodon society ] [ studio 808 ] R O A D [ places | spaces | traces ] T R I B E [ friends + family ] C U L T [ myth | culture | tales ] |
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, creative direction, business strategy and technology development; and has taken many forms - as consultant, corporate executive, entrepreneur, educator, community organizer 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. As a member of a small development team, Roy was recently granted a U.S. Patent for the design of a new, high-performance data security product. ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY Roy currently heads The Montibon Company, LLC, a strategic consulting and creative direction firm for identity, brand development, marketing and communications. Roy is also the co-founder of Royal Mastodon Society, LLC, an art space, design showroom and performance venue, and Sanctuary Studios, an art space and event venue. He is also working with several friends to develop a high-end audio, home theater and studio/post-production design consulting group. Over the last two decades, Roy has co-founded and served as Creative Director for Vox Mundi, a digital media studio; New Archetype, Inc., a media property development company; and Morpheus Worldwide, LLC, an online marketing agency. CORPORATE MANAGEMENT As Vice-President of Creative and Technology for UltraNet Media, LLC, Roy has been involved in designing and building a career planning, career development and educational platform to address the apalling secondary and post-seconndary drop-out rates and lifetime career drift that plagues our nation. He is doing this with a hand-picked team of business partners and educational advisors from across the country. This project includes building a nation-wide team of mentors, career advisors and career counselors and makes use of state-of-the-art database and social media technologies. As Creative Director for Key3Media Events, Roy oversaw creative teams in Los Angeles and Boston; guided design, development and database initiatives for COMDEX, Seybold Seminars and Networld + Interop websites; 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. 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.  Roy near Blacklake in Northern New Mexico. CONSULTING & PROJECTS Roy is currently providing strategic consulting and creative direction for identity, brand marketing, design and communications in the education, high technology, automotive, consumer electronics and fine art markets. With a group of scientists, researchers and professors, Roy is providing creative direction for the development of a new visual language and the viewing/authoring tools for that language. He is providing strategy and creative direction for a deep online career planning site (including syndication widgets, mobile apps, lead-tracking, CMS and CRM database planning). Roy was also creative director in the development of a high-end mobile data security product. This product has been certified by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and approved for government and military use by JITC (Joint Interoperability Test Command), whose mission is to "support the warfighter in their efforts to manage information on and off the battlefield". For this project, Roy was involved in strategic planning; design of the product housing; information architecture and design for the software; corporate and product identity and branding; packaging design; marketing and messaging. 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 Senior Tour golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez); and Romantica, (a prototype online showcase for limited-edition art, handmade crafts and home furnishings). TEACHING & SYMPOSIA DEVELOPMENT He has taught at UCLA Extension for over 21 years. During that time, Roy has organized and moderated special programs, developed curricula 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 California's 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 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 has taught a number of 12-week online courses for UCLA Extension, including The Creative Process and Powerful Design. He has also recently been the Judge for the Graduation Show for the Art Department at New Mexico Highlands University; and was the Judge of the 28th Annual Angel Fire Arts Fest.  The Las Vegas crew at the presentation of the New Mexico Arts & Culture Designation. BOARDS & COMMUNITY ACTIVITY Roy recently served as Chair of the New Mexico Arts & Cultural District | Las Vegas Steering Committee. He was instrumental in drafting the new Las Vegas Cultural Plan and the Arts & Cultural District boundaries and Master Plan Ordinance. He was also selected by the Mayor to serve on the Steering Committee for the new City of Las Vegas Downtown Master Plan. His partner, Julie Tumblety serves on the Mayor's Commission on Film. In 2007, Roy drafted the SPACE | Las Vegas (Strategic Plan for an Arts & Culture Environment), a grassroots community initiative, with a group of over 21 advisors. 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. During his time as Chair of ACD | LV, Roy initiated the Second Saturday Artwalk, which he directed for a consecutive 25 months, which grew to involve over 130 artists and businesses during the high season; produced the first Traditional Hispanic Arts Show at his gallery Royal Mastodon Society with Cruz Flores and Lawrence Quintana; and concieved and co-designed a self-serve community website to promote the talents and events of local artists and businesses. This site was co-designed and developed by ACD Coordinator Adam Caldwell. While living in Downtown Los Angeles, Roy served as an elected member of the Center City Redevelopment Project Area Committee for t he Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles (CRA-LA). 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 in Downtown LA. 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 a practicing contemporary artist. His condeptual, post-digital mixed media work is focused on the mythic, memetic and spacial sources of culture; its development, evolution and 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 1982 Via Video System One, was one of the very first color paint systems ever made. It weighed 1200 pounds in the crate, had no hard drive, displayed 16 colors on screen out of a palette of only 4096 colors, cost as much as the average American home at the time it was purchased... and never crashed in over 10 years of continuous use. It has been accepted for inclusion in the collection of the Computing Museum of America, in San Diego. PERSONAL INTERESTS He is renovating and converting a former church into a live/work studio and gallery space (Sanctuary Studios); renovating a 5,000 sq. ft. stone building (circa 1865) for a retail gallery space and an art/performance space; is involved in the renovation planning for a third building, a 5,000 sq. ft. historic structure; and is writing a book for creative professionals about designing contexts that transform creative vision into intended experiences. Roy and Julie have adopted five stray and/or rescued cats: Thaddeus Maximus the Cat (orange and white); Isis of Mices (pure black); IggyMan, aka Mr. Finial (black and white); Mike E. (pure white); and Crustini Bella Porcini (pure black). Roy enjoys art, music, literature, film, live theater and memorable culinary experiences; backpacking, mountain biking and crazy road trips; great cities, art centers and world-class musical venues; and has an incurable passion for the sheer noise, speed and mechanical beauty of motorcycles, hot rods and Top Fuel dragsters.  At the NHRA Winternationals in Pomona... What, only 300mph? [ Return to The Montibon Company homepage ] Copyright © 2010, The Montibon Company, LLC / Roy Montibon. All rights reserved. |