Clients:

Beauty
Maybelline, Blk/Opl, Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, Geologie,

Retail/Fashion
Bergdorf Goodman, Cole Haan, Liz Claiborne, UNIQLO, Target, Jockey, Under Armour, Nike

Finance
Morgan Stanley, Key Bank, Chase, Prudential Financial

Media
The New York Times, NBC, MSNBC, Animal

Technology
Google, Motorola, T-Mobile, Sprint, Netflix, Mailchimp, Dell, Sony

Startups
Geologie, Bravely, Aloha, Skai

Spirits
10 Cane, Belvedere Vodka, Stella Artois, Hennessy

Automotive
Toyota

CPG
Mitchum, Quilted Northern, Full Throttle, Big Watt, Aloha

Other
Webby Awards, Telly Awards, YMCA

Currently, Rob is a partner with his life parter, Bec Macdonald in their company, Mate. he has been helping numerous startups and established brands develop new design-centered approaches to growth.

Prior to that, he grew the design department at Droga5 from 7 employees to 30 employees. The department works across all the agency's clients to create Visual Identity Systems, Branding, Campaign Identity Systems, Digital Products and Experiential Design to name a few capabilities.

Prior to Droga5, Rob founded Golden Arm Inc. to explore the relationship between business and design and to implement design thinking as a means of maximizing creativity within an office culture. Before that, he spent 15 years working across a range of clients both independently and at Mother, Anomaly, BBDO and a number of other agencies specializing in advertising, branding and visual identity systems.

During this period, Rob spent two years investigating failure as a way of generating better work. While earning his MFA from the Yale University School of Art, Rob wrote an excerpt titled “The Power of Leaving Things Half Done” for Steven Heller’s book Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned.

CV available upon request.