Julian Rad

Julian Rad is an award-winning creative director and experience designer and world builder working in brand, film, digital, experiential, strategy and design. A Drama Desk nominated theater maker, he has won awards in film, stage, ID and UX and had two films at Sundance. He’s even done a couple of Super Bowl ads.

He was the VP, Group Creative Director overseeing Google's immersive and experiential business and led creative for Google’s largest events for Google Ads, Google Cloud, YouTube and Waze. He shepherded the rebrand of Morgan Stanley after they merged with Dean Witter through an experiential-first web strategy that relied on brand building, reputation establishment and cohesive visuals in pop-up events, retail builds and conferences. He designed, directed and led creative for 17 product launches for HTC and was creative director for Video Highlights, an ambient video editing product that shipped, won awards and is now a feature on the mobile device in your pocket; even if you have an iPhone. He has developed and pioneered hybrid experiences for launch events and community development for Samsung and Intel, recently led creative for Microsoft 365 and Twilio, and was recently an Artist in Residence developing a new experience technology, Cosm.