Hey there, I'm Joby!

For the past 25 years I've worked as a multi-disciplinary designer & artist in the film, television, music, print and theme park industries.

Now I work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a Visual Strategist, within JPL’s Designlab.

My work has traveled to the Super Bowl; Comicon; SXSW; TED Conference; the International Space Station; the surface of Mars on the Perseverance Rover and was even the first HD video beamed from outer space.

I do freelance work, public speaking and design strategy consulting on the side. Please reach out if you need the following:

• Graphic Design and Illustration

• Art Direction; Production Concept Design; Story Boarding

• Sculpting; Prop and Miniature Fabrication

• 1 or 2 hr ZOOM Design Consultation & Input on your Creative Projects;

• Design Strategy; Storytelling Consulting

• Public Speaking:

  • Art and Science

  • OBSERVE: 50 Streetwise Design Principles Every Creative Should Know

Contact me HERE

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory | NASA

2012 – Present (5 years) Pasadena, California

I currently work as a Visual strategist within 18x, an organization of communicators and education specialists, supporting scientists and engineers at JPL & NASA with design, art and strategy. Through this process we help them "think through their thinking" finding creative solutions for how to better communicate their missions and projects to each other and the public.

Freelance

January 2003 – January 2011 (8 years) Los Angeles, CA

Music Video, Short Film & Commercial Directing

•         Produced & directed award winning Doritos commercial “Bird Of Prey” for Crash the Super Bowl campaign surrounding Super Bowl XLVI in 2012

•         Produced and Directed music videos for Atlantic Records and Sony Records

•         Directed series of short films starring Lawrence Gilliard (The Wire; Walking Dead)

Production Design; Prop & Model FX Fabrication; Concept Design, Storyboarding

•         Designed, built and manufactured sets and props for numerous music videos, commercials, short films and feature films. Lead crews/ contractors

Graphic Design & Illustration

•        Created artwork and branding for the music, print, fashion, literary and theme park industries.

•       2 week freelance work for BLT Communications, Hollywood on feature film posters “Cowboys and Aliens” and “X-Men First Class”

NEOTEK | HAND PROP ROOM (HPR)

January 2000 – January 2003 (3 years 1 month) Burbank, CA

Created props, costumes and concept designs for film and television. Clients include directors J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, Steven Soderbergh and Acadey Award winning costume designer Milena Canonero.

Films: 

Solaris; Pirates of the Caribbean ; Bruce Almighty ; Cat in the Hat ; Bad Boys 2 ; XXX ; Scorpion King ; Constantine

Television:

Star Trek Enterprise ; Buffy The Vampire Slayer ; Alias ; C.S.I. ; Malcolm in the Middle ; Angel ; Firefly

Walt Disney Imagineering

January 1997 – January 2000 (3 years 1 month) Glendale, CA

Model maker, sculptor and Rockwork Engineer for Tokyo Disney Sea in Tokyo, Japan. 

Produced scale models of rides and attractions in parks Mediterranean Harbor; sculpted full scale props and set pieces for the park at Tujunga location; worked for 1 year in the Rockwork department on the parks central piece, a 21 story tall volcano