Joshua Michael Goldenberg

Design for Interface, Interaction, and Experience.

Creative Director, Designer
Oakland, CA
10/2002 - Present
Contracted for user interface, interaction, brand/graphic/experience design initiatives for Industrial Light and Magic, Greenmaker, Scion, Toyota Financial Services, Dentsu North America, Interface Inc, Barclay's Global Investors, Hyperion, Morgan Stanley, Inside Trading, Old Republic Credit, Ciber-Safe, Eleven Inc, MethodEngine, Ingalls Memorial Hospital, CRS, and Nextforms Inc — in addition to branding, identity and marketing design for a number of organizations and individuals in the music industry. (Listed in chonological order from most recent)

Principal, Experience Design
Method Engine / Chicago, IL
12/2000 - 8/2002
Founding partner of Method Engine, leading brand experience, creative direction, user interface and production design initiatives for Target, Motorola, Morgan Stanley, McGraw-Hill, InterfaceAR, Re:Source Americas, Van Kampen Investments, NOMOS Corporation, and numerous others. Artifacts included work in the areas of: motion graphics, web-based game interface design, sound design, wireless / pda interface design, and kiosk interface design, in addition to design and development for websites, intranets, extranets, Video CD-ROMs, flash animations, rich-media email promotions, and various print and promotional materials. Internal initiatives include UI design for web-based toolkits, web-based software products, and wireless process management software.

Freelance Designer
Chicago, IL
09/2000 - 12/2000
Contracted for web / multimedia brand initiatives for VSA Partners, and UI design for iXL/Scient/SBI (now Avenue A / Razorfish) among others, for client projects including British Airways, Ford Motor Company, and marchFIRST.

Senior Designer
VSA Partners / Chicago, IL
04/2000 - 09/2000
Senior interactive design position, reporting to creative principals. Designed, produced and art directed brand experiences and user interfaces for corporate websites, CD-ROMs, and internal / external multimedia presentations. Collaborated as a member of project teams ranging from two to twenty people, working closely with technology, multimedia, design planning, user strategy and information architecture teams. Client project experience included firms such as: AOL Time-Warner, USG, marchFIRST, Weber, Aetna, Mead Paper, Fox River Paper, and Potlatch Paper.

Director / Designer
nodeOne / San Francisco, CA
12/1994 - 04/2000
Self employed print and web designer. Sold, directed and designed print and web projects ranging from music packaging for independent record labels, hand-to-hand printed media campaigns and clothing design for electronic music festivals and conferences, to identity work and website design and development for small and midsize corporations. Managed every aspect of the process of a single-person design shop, including: business development, sales, marketing, budgeting, design planning, outsourcing of creative and technical services (photography, illustration, scripting, database and middleware development), project management, client presentation and site maintenance.

Over the years my work has been seen in the following publications: Communication Arts / Design Interact, Interior Design Magazine, Core77, Metropolis Magazine, Critique Magazine, Architectural Record, Hospitality Design, Massive Magazine, Activated Magazine, and on display in the Columbia Design Gallery in Chicago, in the show Process: Deconstructing the Evolution of Stuff.

Design (Expert) - Adobe CS (all), Adobe/MM Studio MX (most), Adobe Streamline, OpenOffice (all), Textmate.
Motion/3d (Proficient) - Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Flash, Apple Final Cut Pro, Cinelerra, Maya.
Sound (Expert) - Ableton Live, Acid, Access Virus TI, Audacity, Audiomulch, ProTools, Cubase 4-SX3, NI Komplete, Massive, Reason, Recycle, Rebirth, Renoise, Soundforge, and other various hardware/midi and software sound synthesis and processing tools.

XHTML, CSS, Django, Zope, JQuery/JS, Firebug, Subversion/SVN, Trac, Windows 3.1-XP, MacOS 7.1-X, Ubuntu, IE/Firefox/Gecko/Safari/OmniWeb/Opera/Konqueror/Lynx/iPhone.

Beginning in 2008, I will be serving as a member of the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Arts and Ecology Institute called the Futureform Institute, based in Silver City, New Mexico.
As of late 2007 I am an active member of the rCache development team, collaborating on information architecture, user experience and interaction design.

For the last 14 years, I have periodically performed and mixed live electronic music under several different monikers. I've been fortunate to have played music in the following cities across the US: San Francisco, Oakland, Denver, Boulder, NYC, Brooklyn, Chicago, Milwaukee, Portland, Eugene, as well as conducting performances in various rural multi-day outdoor music events in Wyoming, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Northern California.
Siege Records (Releases under Enemy Skies and Time Slips By)
Time Slips By (Artist Site)

World of Warcraft, Star Wars Galaxies, RGTR/Tabula Rasa, Matrix Online, Eve Online, Hellgate London