Duane King
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Duane King

Portland, Oregon, He/Him

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” —Albert Einstein

16 days ago

About

I work across mediums and coordinate relationships among ideas and people to create specific outcomes that inform the shape of culture. I am an Executive Member of the IADAS, the Webby Awards judging body, and in 2011, Fast Company selected me as one of the 50 Most Influential Designers in America.

Driven by curiosity, my work has been recognized by Cannes Lions, Fast Company, WIRED, The New York Times, The Guardian, Graphis, Sports Illustrated, Industrial Designers Society of America, D&AD, The 100 Show, The Art Directors Club, TechCrunch, Engadget, The FWA, I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, Creative Review, Computer Arts, Wallpaper*, IdN, Print, HOW Magazine, and more.

Work Experience

2015 — Now
Creative Director & Strategist at Moonshot
2023 — 2023
Creative Lead / Curation at Highlight
2021 — 2022
Executive Creative Director at Jam3
2012 — 2015
Co-Founder & Creative Director at Huge/KingCoyle
2010 — 2015
Co-Founder & Creative Director at King/Coyle
2006 — 2010
Co-Founder & Creative Director at BBDK, Inc.
1998 — 2005
Creative Director at focus2 Brand Development
1995 — 1997
Designer at Novaré International
1993 — 1994
Junior Designer at Sibley Peteet Design

Writing

2024

Dialog Box is a playful generative art project that invites viewers to engage with the concept of choice in the digital age. Inspired by the early Mac OS, the artwork presents an interface of two buttons.

2023

Sum is an artwork that celebrates personal identity on the blockchain. It represents a data portrait of a person at a specific time and place in digital space. Sum is a virtual snapshot of you on Ethereum.

2021

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” — Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

2011

A mother leaves behind a note and a disruption to normalcy as it seemed. What follows is a long search for equilibrium, and at last, a reexamination of what normal means.

2011

As the evolution of the reading experience unfolds from text to hypertext, there's new opportunity and responsibility to be found in bringing text to life.

2014
Typographic Design: Form and Communication by Rob Carter, Philip Meggs on John Wiley & Sons
2013
Kern & Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs by Tim Hoover & Jessica Karle on Self-Published
2012
One Show Interactive by The One Club on Rockport Publishers
2011
Design Your Way to the Top with Ian Coyle & Duane King on Computer Arts

Issue 186, April

Awards

2024

A creator contest with a 1,200,000 OP prize pool judged by a number of respected figures in the onchain creative space.

2016

Nike Tech Book
Apps and Software Shopping

2015

Nike Making App

2014

Nike+ FuelBox

2014
Nike Maxim Awards from Nike

Nike Making App

2013
Nike Maxim Awards from Nike

SWOOSHiD

2011
Cannes Lions Shortlist from Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity

Nike Better World

2011
2009
Bronze Cube, Interactive Design from The Art Directors Club of New York

Luigi Bormioli

2005
Gold Award, Self-Promotional from Dallas Society of Visual Communications, The Dallas Show

focus2 Nöel Greeting Card

2005
Silver Award, Interactive from Dallas Society of Visual Communications, The Dallas Show

Dick Patrick Photography

2003
Gold Award, Stationery from Dallas Society of Visual Communications, The Dallas Show

Jenna Gersbach Photographer

2003
Retail Store of the Year from Hollywood: National Association of Store Fixture Manufacturers

Nambé Store

2000
Bronze Award, Advertising from Dallas Society of Visual Communications, The Dallas Show

Quake II Console Ad

1999
The 100 Show, Print Advertising from American Center for Design

Quake II Console Ad

1999
I.D. Magazine Interactive Design Annual from I.D. Magazine

Herman Miller SQA

1998
Web 100, Interactive from American Center for Design

Herman Miller SQA

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