Definer of Make or Remake

Clarifyer of Who is “we”?

Architect of Change

Multigenerational Project Solutionist

Life’s about sharing experiences that ( ___ ) us.

 

Contact: michael@michaelrobinsonnyc.com

About.

Michael Robinson (He/His/Him) is a multidisciplinary artist, creative director, and educator. He serves as an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design, nominated three times for excellence in teaching. His clientele includes Grammy Award winner singer-songwriter Alicia Keys; MacArthur Genius Award winner choreographer Shen Wei; Wu-Tang's RZA; and legendary photographers Jim Marshall and Timothy White. His design work for Burners Without Borders in the Smithsonian Institution 2018, No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man exhibition, is now part of their permanent collection, and was also on view at the Nevada Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of Art, and Cincinnati Art Museum. In 2016 he co-directed the VR piece Skin in the Game, a collaboration by Pharrell Williams, Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, and David Campbell, to create Rules of the Game. VR allowed viewers to experience performing on stage at the BAM Opera House and the Guggenheim Museum from the dancer's perspective. In 2020, Michael co-presented the Design Science Decade: Design For Impact panel with the Buckminster Fuller Institute at the Burning Man Project’s Burners Without Borders 2020 Spring Summit. Michael continued collaborating with the Buckminster Fuller Institute to develop the 2020-2021 Design Science Studio curriculum and is now a cohort alumnus.

MADE IN NYC

Published Works

20 Years of Style: The World of Paper Magazine by Kim Hastreiter + David Hershkovits • Extreme Design by Salavetz + Drake • Taschen’s Web Design: Navigation • Logo Design II - Julius Wiedemann • TMDG 10th Anniversary Book • Reality Sandwich’s Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age • Evolver’s Forging Community Through Visionary Art

Clients include:

Alicia Keys, Sean “Puffy” Combs, RZA, Jay Z, Jane’s Addiction, Deepak Chopra, Coca Cola, Levis Strauss, Jeep, Chrysler, Planned Parenthood, Oxygen Network, Burning Man Project, New Belgium Brewing, UNICEF, Harper Collins, Taschen, Random House, Avon, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Dusan Tynek, Jonah Bokaer Choreography, University of the Arts School of Dance, Hollins University, Vosges Haut Chocolate, Zen Dog Productions, Nokia, Smirnoff, Glade, Univision, Concord Records, Aquilo Records, Road Runner Records, Sanctuary Music, J Records, Thursday Boot Co., Pantone, Odwalla, Glade, Onwards to Opportunity, Trimarchi Design Conference, Buckminster Fuller Institute, Leaders on Purpose + more

Speaking

To book workshops or speaking engagements, email: michael@michaelrobinsonnyc.com

 

Engagements include: Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Burning Man Project, Burners Without Borders, Buckminster Fuller Institute, Open Center, Trimarchi DG, Leaders on Purpose (at the United Nations), Altos de Chavon, Evolver, and Hollins University

 


The Decade of Doing: Design for Impact

Take a whole-systems approach toward graphic design to ensure your presentation materials sell your ideas and secure funding.

Learn how best to articulate your organization's goals and build trust visually. We'll outline methods and designs that work for 100% of life.

Transformational Culture in the Digital Age

The way you tell your story in person and online can make all the difference. Unpacking designs role in world-building and navigating experiences with the designer as shaman.

Design and the Performing Arts

How can design be harnessed as cultural producers? How do you grow audiences through communication design? How can design be used to secure funding?

 

Design + Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics

Let's examine graphic work focusing on social and political concerns from around the globe and its ability to keep democratic societies functioning.

Dimensional Shift: Letterforms

This workshop focuses on the different aspects of type design and symbolic communication. Designers create their own unique alphabets based on a series of exercises.

Mainstream Money for Underground Artists

Can you make money off art or do you have to have side jobs? What roles do artists need to be fulfilled to be self-sufficient? How do art/design practices run as a business?

 

Art, Evolution + Initiation: Rites for the Age of Transition

Through unpacking designs role in our rites of passage, we'll create a template for moving forward. What rituals are most needed? What rituals need to be discarded? 

Buckminster Superstar: Pop Culture Design for Livingry

Taking a whole-systems perspective to creating pop cultural experiences and brands. Explore connections within integrated, complex worlds through graphic design.

The Design Science Decade: Design for Impact

Take a whole-systems perspective to explore connections within an integrated, complex world through graphic design. We'll outline a plan to fuse communication and product design that works for 100% of life.

 
 

Make it stand out.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

 
 

  • Engagements include: Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Burning Man Project, Burners Without Borders, Buckminster Fuller Institute, Open Center, Trimarchi DG, Leaders on Purpose (at the United Nations), Altos de Chavon, Evolver, and Hollins University.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.