Roy Tatum

Roy Tatum

Product and Brand in Austin, TX, he/him

About

Roy Tatum is an Austin based designer. He’s worked on everything from custom software and wearables, to websites and apps, to printed matter and visual identities. He’s worked with and for companies like Apple, Nike, Google, Equinox, Wikipedia, Target, and MasterCard.

Work Experience

2018 — Now
Austin, TX

Numbers is an Austin based design studio focused on brand identity, type design, and illustration projects for a variety of clients, from small startups, to established brands. Select clients: BandLab, Atlassian, Shopify, Wikipedia.

2021 — Now
Remote

Leading design across brand and product for LeaseUp, a proptech startup building a CRE deal platform for tenant rep brokers.

2020 — Now
Pasadena, CA

Teaching in the Transmedia track of the Graphic Design department. Courses taught: Generative Design, Generative Typography, Typography 5: Transmedia.

2019 — 2020
Los Angeles, CA

Design Partner at Quarter, a product studio building software, hardware, brands, and teams for new ventures and innovation. Select clients: Google, Equinox.

2016 — 2019
Portland, OR

Worked across Nike's digital product portfolio. Select projects: Design lead for Nike app at Retail, contributed to the Nike app design system and app redesign, art direction for the launch of Audio Guided Runs in the Nike Run Club app, contributed to the redesign of Nike.com.

2016 — 2016
San Francisco, CA

Select clients: Apple, M2M.

2014 — 2015
San Francisco, CA

Polyera was a material science company that developed flexible electronics. As Senior Product Designer on the UX team I worked on the operating system and companion app for Wove, a wearble device with a flexible display that wrapped around the wrist.

2013 — 2014
San Francisco, CA

Worked on product design and product strategy for both client based projects and studio funded startups. Select clients: Polyera, Anki.

2012 — 2013
New York, NY

Worked on product and service design projects for clients like Target, The City of New York, and MasterCard.

2011 — 2011
New York, NY

Communication design intern supporting brand, product, and service design projects.

Speaking

2021
Basics of Generative Typography at Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography
Pasadena, CA

Summer 2021 Design Educators Typography Intensive at the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT) at ArtCenter College of Design.

2021
Pasadena, CA

Winter 2021 Design Educators Typography Intensive at the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT) at ArtCenter College of Design.

2020
Pasadena, CA

Summer 2020 Design Educators Typography Intensive at the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT) at ArtCenter College of Design.

2019
The Museum of Good Design at ArtCenter Graphic Design Speaker Series
Pasadena, CA

Career focused talk encouraging students to not always pick projects and clients with a clear, easy path to success.

Awards

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