Creative Development Studio

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What This Studio Is

An apprenticeship container for creatives ready to level up their trajectory through deeper development. This is a development process for mid career creatives and emerging creative leaders navigating a threshold in their practice. We work through your real world projects. Not hypothetical briefs.

You bring the work that is alive:

  • Concepts

  • Pitch decks

  • Designs

  • Writing

Together, we shape the thinking inside the work while it’s in motion.

How It Works

This is an intimate, 1:1 creative development container. Each participant works directly with me in live virtual working sessions focused on their projects and trajectory. There is no group curriculum or shared critique format.

Sessions move between:

  • Concept development

  • Narrative shaping

  • Creative direction

  • Presentation articulation

  • Voice strengthening

The dialogue stays close to your work and developmental edge.

Who It’s For

This Studio may resonate if you are:

  • Mid career and feeling a shift in your practice

  • Strong in execution but seeking deeper thinking

  • Stepping into creative direction

  • Refining your voice as a leader

  • Feeling plateaued and looking for the right catalyst to reach the next level

Develop your creative capacity through the work itself.

This is not traditional coaching. And it’s not a portfolio review. The focus is on developing your creative capacity through the work itself. This unfolds across three layers:

Craft: Sharpening process and execution within live projects.

Concept: Strengthening the thinking beneath the surface.

Voice: Clarifying what is uniquely yours to say and make.

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Outcomes

Over time, participants often experience:

  • Greater clarity in their creative stance

  • Stronger articulation of ideas

  • Increased confidence directing work

  • More coherence across projects

  • A clearer sense of authorship


As creative capacity expands, career trajectory often follows.

Many participants use this container to:

  • Prepare for senior creative roles

  • Strengthen promotion cases

  • Build confidence in leadership conversations

  • Develop signature thinking

  • Increase their strategic value within organizations

Studio Capacity

Investment

About Joel

This Studio is intentionally small. I’m opening 5 to 7 virtual seats to keep the container relational and in depth.

This is a high touch, 1:1 process. Investment details are shared with accepted participants. Accessibility for this career stage has been thoughtfully considered in shaping the Studio structure and pricing.

I’ve spent the past 25 years as a practicing creative working across startups, agencies, and large technology organizations.

Alongside my own design practice and creative leadership, I’ve consistently mentored and developed multidisciplinary creatives across physical and digital design, digital products, spatial experiences, and immersive storytelling.

This has included supporting visual, product, and experience designers, writers, filmmakers, animators, strategists, technologists, and other creators as they strengthen their craft, clarify their voice, and grow into greater creative authorship and leadership.

The Studio extends this long standing mentorship practice into a dedicated developmental container.


Learn more about Joel here.

Apply for a 1:1 Studio Seat

A short application to explore fit and alignment. Selected applicants will be invited into a Studio fit conversation.

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