The power of the collective
We are a dynamic creative collective comprised of immersive designers, animators, VR directors, audio composers, game designers, museographers and screenwriters.
Our passion for the immersive design space drives us to push the boundaries of innovation and creativity. We believe that our work can make a positive impact on society, whether it’s creating experiences that educate and inform, or entertain and inspire.
Our diverse backgrounds and skillsets allow us to approach challenges from unique angles, resulting in cutting-edge and meaningful work. As a design collective, we are committed to collaboration, experimentation, and growth, and strive to create immersive experiences that connect with people on a deeper level.
Mike’s 20+ years experience as Art Director, Motion Graphics Designer, 3D visualizer, Teacher and Independent Artist is as broad as the media landscape itself. He is a polyvalent Creative Director and Consultant in Immersive Design Solutions.
Mike has developed and produced visual content for many sectors; Advertisement, Branding, Instruction & Training, Games, Music, Theatre, Dance, Exhibitions, Corporate Events, Cultural Festivals, Art installation, Web-Applications and Interaction design.
David is a Creative Director with over 20 years experience in a broad range of design disciplines, such as product, print, exhibitions, events, digital and interactive design.
Well-known for his Zen-like calm during the pressures of running multiple creative projects (a result of his lifelong passion as a practitioner and teacher of Kung Fu), David is a firm believer that a path of continual self-improvement will result in the very best work, a motto he lives by 24/7.
André Robert is a Costa Rican | Swiss film director and cinematographer born in 1990. In 2014, he obtained a B.F.A in Film & T.V Production from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
Over the past seven years, he has worked as a freelance filmmaker with award-winning production companies in advertising campaigns for international clients including Starbucks, KFC and Hyundai.
As a filmmaker, his documentary feature-length debut “El Hombre de Piel Manchada” has won numerous prizes; in 2017 it won the Development Award for the Costa Rica International Film Festival; in 2019 it won the Costa Rican National Film Fund – El Fauno; in 2020 it participated in the work-in-progress section of the Málaga Film Festival and the Costa Rica International Film Festival – winning the latter event’s main prize.
André is currently developing his second feature film “Matabuey” as part of a Master’s Program in Creative Documentary Filmmaking from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain.
Michelle is a freelance Multimedia Writer and Interpretation Consultant. Before going solo, she spent nine years at Antenna International, first as a Staff Writer then as Storyteller-in-Chief.
She researched, wrote and produced audio and multimedia guides, mobile tours, apps and other interactive experiences for museums and cultural sites, including Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, The National Gallery, The Royal Academy, The Royal Collection, St Paul’s Cathedral, The Wellcome Collection, English Heritage, The National Trust, The National Gallery of Scotland, Historic Scotland, The British Library, Ben Uri Gallery, Epic Ireland, Museum of Islamic Art (Qatar), the Burj Khalifa (UAE), Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (UAE), Taj Mahal (India), Agra Fort (India), Marina Barrage (Singapore), Angkor Wat (Cambodia), The Pera Museum (Turkey), and BOZAR (Belgium).
Michelle is also a poet. Her first book, Self-portrait as a diviner, failing, was published in 2018 (Paper Swans Press, UK). Individual poems have appeared in print and online journals worldwide.
As a producer and director for Sky TV, Dan specialised in writing and making arts, cinema and drama behind-the-scenes films and documentaries and as a Sky VR producer, he specialised in bringing storytelling techniques to volumetric capture experiences.
Exploring the craft of five-act storytelling has been a long-held interest and applying that craft to interactive, immersive experiences or podcasts, audio drama, film and television scripts is his current focus and passion. Over the years, Dan has worked on projects for The Oscars, National Theatre, National Gallery, English National Opera, Northern Ballet, ENB, Wellcome Collection and Wilderness Festival and has been nominated for a Venice Film Festival Lion D’Or for two VR experiences that he produced in 2018 and 2019.
Etta is the founder of Etta Shon Arts, an experiential agency delivering interactive, live visual experiences for luxury events through the melding of art and technology. They partner with fashion, beauty, technology, and media brands for industry events.
Etta is the creator of Live Digital Painting, where illustration is paired with projections and animations in a live setting to offer a highly personal client experience. She has lived and worked in New York, Paris, London, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles.
Eve Horne is a prolific talent who wears many hats: Chart-topping singer, songwriter, composer, studio-owner, production partner and activist for the underprivileged.
A graduate of the prestigious B.R.I.T school in the early 90’s. She went on early success as part of the Danish Girl Group JUICE with a #1 Christmas single, “Let Love Be Love” is still Denmark’s most popular Christmas song with over 7million Spotify and 1million Youtube views.
Returning to the UK, she studied Sound Engineering and Music Business, and then set up a recording studio in South London, supporting underprivileged youth and promoting female producers/sound engineers. Her community work won a National Business Award and an Enterprising Britain Award.
Eve recently founded Peak Music UK. Peak specialises in hands-on production workshops bridging a gap they have identified between songwriters and emerging music technology. They also deliver songwriting workshops and retreats in the mountains in Italy. She is also, (as if that wasn’t enough) a certified Specialist for Native Instruments she also delivers walkthroughs and industry tips at her PeakMusicUK Youtube channel here.
She has so far co-written songs with:
- Paddy Byrne (Paloma Faith, Snakehips, Tom Grennan, Ella Eyre, Will Young, Olly Murs, Gabrielle, Sinead Harnett)
- Mo Pleasure (Micheal Jackson, Janet Jackson, Bette Midler, Roberta Flack, Earth, Wind & Fire, Natalie Cole)
- Peter Biker (Chris Brown, Pitbull, Usher, Monica, Craig David, Sugababes, Jay Sean, Jamelia)
- Maria Christensen (Celine Dion, J-Lo, N-SYNC, Disney).
In 2018 Eve reformed JUICE, writing and releasing two singles.
In 2020 and in response to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests, following the death of George Floyd, she released debut solo single, the hauntingly beautiful cover of Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’
With almost 20 years of experience designing and directing motion graphics for broadcast, Jeannine Mellonby’s client list is as impressive as her multi-award-winning portfolio. Having worked with every major broadcaster in the UK, across a huge range of projects, on every platform, her adaptability, impeccable design and strong work ethic have kept her in constant demand.
Built upon a solid foundation of 3 years in house at MTV as senior designer, Jeannine has gone on to freelance for all the Viacom channels, including Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Channel 5. Other notable clients include Discovery, Sky, UKTV, Channel 4, Red Bee, Disney, ITV and more. Working independently or in collaboration with other creatives, her commissions include packaging and promos, refreshes and channel architecture, logos and branding, on-site brand implementation and print.
As well as leading the course at Ba. Image & Media Technology and AD. Digital Media at the University of the Arts Utrecht, Lenno Verhoog is a researcher in Creative Practices.
He holds a Master Education in Arts (MEd) and actively contributes to the education of reflective practitioners and of ‘designerly ways of thinking’ with a special focus on visual literacy and creative processes.
Between 1998 and 2006 Lenno worked at V2_Lab for the unstable Media as a visual-designer, where he contributed to a wide range of projects on data visualisation; interactive art installations; online applications; and the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF).
Malo is a vocalist, guitarist and composer and has had extensive experience performing nationally and internationally in several genres. He has also produced sound design and written scores for more than 35 stage plays.
Malo has spent the past several years focusing on composing music for commercials, TV and film. His output spans all genres, including modern orchestral, EDM, classic rock, hip-hop, r&b, horror and southern blues/rock. He has been asked to compose for numerous TV shows such as America’s Next Top Model, Black Ink Crew, Bring It, Is OJ Innocent the Missing Evidence, Just Jillian, Mob Wives, Monica the Medium, My Big Fat Fabulous Life, Real Housewives of Dallas, Real World Seattle Bad Blood, Rocky Mountain Bounty Hunters, Short Game and Sweet Vicious.
He has performed both live and in the studio with numerous successful artists and producers such as acclaimed producer Doc McKinney, Shaheed Muhammad (Tribe Called Quest), Raphael Saadiq, Nas, Stokley (Mint Condition), The Black Crowes, Soul Asylum, Chaka Khan, Sheila E, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Dead Prez and Andre Cymone.
Independent digital project manager and creative producer of text, audio and multimedia for museums, cultural & heritage sites, publishers and remarkable locations.
Marielle produces audio guides, audiobooks, podcasts, apps, interactive screen content, audio short stories, 360 (spatial) audio, AR and location-aware media for mobile and (in & outdoor) spaces. She also trains individuals and teams to produce their own (digital) stories, drive diversity and inclusivity in storytelling and find the right creative process, platform or technology to do so.
Marielle works with Storytel, the largest independent audiobook studio in Europe, where she directs and produces audiobooks.
She is also the proud jury chairperson for the International Media & Technology MUSE Awards, podcast category, presented by the American Alliance of Museums.
Innovative Architect and the Professor of the Master’s course in Interior Design at Barcelona’s prestigious IED school of Barcelona. Narcis Font Juan has been pushing the boundaries of experiential design within commercial and residential projects since 2004.
He has worked with architecture studios in Paris and Barcelona and has developed his own work in collaboration with architecture firms Atelier Jean Nouvel (Paris), Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos, ADD + Bailo-Rull, Pujol Arquitectura and El Equipo Creativo (Barcelona).
In 2016, with partners Enric Ferrer and Roger Subirà, Narcis founded BACKYARDbcn, a studio dedicated to exploring the limits of design within the discipline of architecture.
Paula’s experience draws on senior positions in broadcast, digital and higher education. Broadcast has included Head of Production for BSkyB Movies and three music series, Jazz, Blues and Legends for NBC Europe which included working across the USA.
As Head of Digital at the UK’s largest screen agency, she was also involved in diversity schemes with major media partners, BBC, ITV and leading drama companies. In higher education, she worked across a number of universities and an affiliated arts and conservation college.
Her work has included multiple client productions, festival and project feasibility studies, co-designing and delivering an award winning, industry integrated university module and social media management.
For two years she managed the digital output for The Bowes Centre at The Bowes Museum and managed the social media for arts organisation Northern Heartlands. She also manages Project Pyrenees, her land, arts, craft and social justice initiative.
Paula has been selected for international innovation labs including Crossover Interactive and the XO Labs at The Sheffield Documentary Festival now the third largest festival in the world.
In 2011, Paula was invited to No.10 Downing Street for contributing to ‘Building Britain’s Future.’ Her aim is to do this through the arts, education and social justice.
Rosa Pons-Cerdà is involved in research on subliminal image-messages, and in exploring the qualities of blended learning for decolonizing courses. To give back what she has learned, she brings her experience into workshops and learning methods within the frame of intersectionality. Her work craves communication and education to promote civic responsibility.
She is also the Director of documentaries for social justice and archiving people’s memories (TV3, TVE2, Via Digital, Canal+, Radiotelevisão Portuguesa); curator of DoubleClick, a European Student’s Film Festival organised without hierarchies, where students were giving workshops about their practices and experimentation (2010-2015); lecturer at Universitat de Vic, Barcelona (2005-2016), a researcher in academic innovation groups (CIFE-GI and AQUID, 2009-2013).
Her studies cover a range of disciplines: graduate in Philology (UAB, 1994), in Media (EMAV, 1995), postgraduate in Actor’s Direction (URL, 2002), master in Writing for Cinema and Television (URL, 2008), all in Barcelona; and “updated” in Design and Development of Games for Learning (Edx, 2016).
Producer and prolific creator, Jody has worked with some of the most innovative and award-winning directors in music videos, music documentaries and short films.
During a 12-year life stint in Barcelona, she set up multi-disciplinary art events and concentrated on her photography with work published in various travel magazines. Returned to London and produced a series of photographic exhibitions revolving around mental health for The Photography Movement and joined the team at Equal Lens, a collective that champions female + non-binary photographers.
Jody also co-founded Trash & Treasure Flea, a new vintage/street food market in West London as a way to champion local traders, promote sustainable fashion and support teens + the Gen Z’s by giving them a space to create, sell and express themselves.
Saul is a prolific creative force with a significant body of work as a film composer, classical composer and screenwriter. He has worked with film directors & producers worldwide, scoring for award-winning short and feature-length films, documentaries, and TV.
To date, he has composed and produced music for over eighty such screen projects, working across many genres, including horror/slasher, romantic comedies, martial arts, drama, fantasy and war. His music has been used in productions by Swiss Films, Amazon, Sky (Sky Sports, Sky One, Sky Movies, Sky Arts, Sky Atlantic), Netflix, Channel 4, Seven Network (Australia) and through on-demand portals including Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Prime Music, Google, Youtube and SoundCloud.
Music is not his only output; he has recently finished the drama/thriller screenplay “The North Wing”, an independent feature film currently in development. He has also written a six-part drama TV Series, a second feature-length film and is writing his first play and a suite of other projects on spec.
As a classically trained composer, he studied at the London Conservatoire The Royal College of Music, gaining a scholarship under David McBride, Joseph Horovitz and the late Philip Cannon. During this time, he won the Joan Wellor Memorial Composition Competition Prize. His compositions include works for orchestra, a commission for The London Ballet School, performed at the Cochrane Theatre, London and a one-hour, full-scale oratorio for orchestra, chorus and soloists. Saul also conducts most of his live performances.
Current projects in 2020/21 include a suite for orchestra and solo soprano, a new feature film soundtrack, and other screenplay adventures.