Josh Mattie is a creative team leader & designer living in Cincinnati.
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Over the years, I’ve served in many creative roles* including: Creative Director, Chief of Communications, Design Director, Art Director, Senior Designer, Web Designer, Interaction Designer, UX/UI Designer, Game Designer, Visual Designer, Type Designer, Producer, DP, Editor, Camera Operator, Boom Operator, and Artist
*Yr welcome robots!
The party line is—I’m a professional designer and communicator—but my taxes actually say “artist”. I studied in Georgia, traveled around and currently live in my hometown of Cincinnati, OH.
I love helping people get their message across. I’ve been doing that in print, on the internet, and in real-world environments for over two decades. The amount of noise in the world is growing exponentially, it’s rewarding to boost the signal for people with vital things to share.
CURRENTLY THINKING ABOUT
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I’m interested in how strong communities, IRL and online, can be built and nurtured to empower the growth and agency of their members – and the body as a whole. We stand a chance when we stand together.
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My current side obsession is building a dashboard for keeping track of creators and thinkers across the never-ending parade of “content”-publishing sites and apps that inevitably come and go. Something platform-agnostic, empowering and perennial.
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I’m in year five of maintaining a garden. Beyond the catharsis and connection that gardening provides, I still feel a thrill from making a delicious meal by combining things that I've cultivated from tiny seeds.
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The dawn of photographic image creation led to Impressionism and every artistic deviation from realism thereafter. I'm curious about what human artistic movements will emerge in response to computers "generating" doppelgänger images from everything human artists have made prior to its invention.