Mike Jakab

Mike Jakab
Friday November 13th
Gallery 210, 6:30

Michael Jakab is an award-winning director who specializes in entertaining narrative, design and technology.  His design and directorial work has been featured in Studio Voice, Tokion, Idea, Communication Arts, Creativity, Shift, Print, RES and Boards.  In addition to teaming with DUCK in 2009, Jakab currently acts as one of the two principals of agency:collective, an award-winning design studio, since its 2006 founding in San Francisco.

Jakab’s broad experience includes assisting in the redesign of the MoMA’s paperless lobby; working with Wieden + Kennedy in Tokyo on a variety of projects; directing the 2008 Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Campaign; and traveling to Helsinki on a  Fulbright grant, where he was immersed in TAIK’s Ph.d. Media Lab and wrote the “first” feature length film to be shot entirely on a cellphone.

As a design consultant for New Port South, Jakab designed character props and posters showcased in the feature-length film. He has also done extensive work for Imaginary Forces, contributing to Spider-man, The Mummy series, and Anna and the King, among many others.  In Treviso, Italy, Jakab worked at Fabrica, Benneton’s think tank for design and communication.  While still in school, he helped MTV Networks redesign VH1.

Jakab holds an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art + Design, where he studied deviation through narratology, drama and film.  He also attended the Minneapolis College of Art + Design.