Michael Mason is a designer and creative director based in East London.

Since 2011, he has shaped focused, meaningful, and craft-oriented work across branding, graphic design and art direction. His independent practice focuses on identity and communication arts within contemporary culture.

With over 15 years of international experience, Michael has worked with studios like Bold Scandinavia, Koto, Pentagram, ManvsMachine, Mother Design, and Winkreative to build concept-driven design systems for brands like Apple, BBC, Nike, NFB Canada, SPACE10, Spotify and Squarespace.

Michael has also previously held roles within Apple's design team in California and Google's Creative Lab in London. Michael is currently Creative Director at Bold's Stockholm studio, where he leads brands, experiences and activations for clients worldwide.

Select Experience

Apple
Cupertino / London
Design Director

Bold Scandinavia
Stockholm
Creative Director

Character SF
San Francisco
Designer

Google Creative Lab
London
Art Director

ManvsMachine
London
Design Director

Pentagram
London / NYC
Senior Designer

Koto
London
Senior Designer

Winkreative
London
Design Director

Select Clients

AIGA
Apple
Atelier Éditions
BBC
Epidemic Sound
Esea Contemporary
Google
IKEA
Microsoft
NFB Canada
Nike
Penguin Books
SPACE10
Squarespace
World of Hyat

Services

Branding
Visual Identity
Campaign Identity
Guidelines & Toolkits
Design Systems
Graphic Design
Art Direction
Publication Design
Websites & Digital
Design Systems
Graphic Design
Art Direction
Publication Design
Websites & Digital

Awards / Press

Eye on Design
The Brand Identity
Computer Arts
CA Typography Annual
Creative Voyage
Creative Review
Dezeen
High Snobiety
Hypebeast
Silver Guldaegget
It's Nice That
Pantone
Studio Standard
XX Talking Thursdays →
The Dieline
VICE Creators Project
Visual Journal
Visuelle
Young Guns Finalist 16
Young Guns Finalist 17
Young Guns Finalist 18

Office

Studio 15
Lockside Studios
5 Skippers Yard
E3 2RF
London

Contact

Linkedin →
Instagram →
Email →

General Inquiries

If you're interested in working together, have any questions or just want to say hello — please feel free to get in touch.

Let's work together.  Have a project in mind that you'd like to collaborate on? Whether you're a manager looking for a creative team, or creative looking for a sparring  partner, please don't hesitate to get in touch.