Brian Collins

Brian Collins is a designer and co-founder of COLLINS, the design and transformation company based in San Francisco and New York City. The company started with two laptops, four desks and an idea: Design is not what we make. Design is what we make possible.

Since then, COLLINS has won Agency of the Year honors over the past seven years from AdAge — including Business Transformation Agency of the Year — as well as recognition from D&AD.

Before launching COLLINS in 2008 with Leland Maschmeyer, Brian led the design and brand innovation division at Ogilvy Worldwide for over a decade.

Brian has been awarded honorary doctorates from The Art Center College of Design and The Massachusetts College of Art & Design. He is president of the Art Directors Club, the world’s oldest creative industry organization celebrating design and craftsmanship. Brian has spoken globally on the impact of design on the future at Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, The Next Web, PopTech, OFFF and The Royal Institution in London. Brian was the first graphic designer invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos. He is also a recipient of the

Claude Shannon Luminary Prize and is an elected member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.

He lives in Manhattan and Woods Hole, Massachusetts, with far, far too many books.