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Morgan Ervin is a passionate, sincere and dedicated creative that is focused totally on what’s best for his clients. He knows from experience that good creative communications materials have the power to transform a client's businesses, powerfully connecting them to their customers. He knows also that the effectiveness of the external relationship a business has with it’s consumers is largely dependent on how well the business communicates internally, and how well a creative group communicates with each other and with their clients. Morgan strives to build relationships for the long-term — adventures of discovery of how to best meet a common goal, collaborations founded in respect. He passionately believes that good design is unraveling a riddle, solving a puzzle by the most efficient and effective means possible. And though he knows that each design challenge is unique, whether the outcome is a website, video, print catalogue, interior space, corporate identity, advertising campaign or something more seemingly mundane, the road to the solution is the same – know the client, know the marketplace, know the customer, treat them both with respect, give them something they’ll love, and above all be honest and sincere.

With a background in Print and Interactive Design, Brand Creation, Studio Photography, Copywriting, and an Education from Art Center College of Design, the University of California, San Diego, and SDCC, Morgan Ervin has been working in the field of Communication Design for almost two decades. He has had equal experience leading design teams at top agencies, such as Black Market, AldenEm, Interactivate, and Digital Asylum, as he has leading in-house design teams at Paul Mitchell, Baby Boo, LevelRed, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and Revolt in Style Magazine in both print and interactive disciplines. 
After leaving Art Center, with the recommendation of designer David Carson, Morgan was hired as a senior designer for the pioneering multimedia firm, Digital Asylum, while there worked under the creative direction of Patrick Howell, and got a very strong foundation in information architecture and graphic user interface (GUI) design. Those disciplines were applied to large scale multimedia projects for Hewlett Packard, for the launch of HP’s PhotoSmart™ family of digital photography products, projects where served as senior designer. In addition to the three interactive CD- ROMs created for HP, Morgan applied his newly honed skills to pioneering web and interactive work for HNC and Qualcomm, work which garnered accolades in several design competitions internationally. From Digital Asylum, Morgan headed north to Vancouver, Canada on contract, to set-up a newly formed multimedia team at one of Vancouver’s most established agencies, Vision as an interim interactive art director.
Returning home to San Diego, contract work with Shepherd Fairey’s Black Market provided fertile opportunity to work on the team who redesigned the Mountain Dew™ branding for Pepsi, as well as working as senior creative on several catalog, tee shirt and logo design projects for surf and skate companies such as Ezekiel, Tribe, and 26 Red. Over the next four years, Morgan worked with several local agencies including AldenEm, working on award-winning projects for a wide array of clients ranging from pharmaceutical giants Bayer, Pfizer and Merck, to youth culture online community LevelRed, to hair product giant Paul Mitchell.
Recognizing the value and talent he provided them as a freelance artist, Robert Cromeans, Paul Mitchell’s artistic director hired Morgan to come on board as a full time creative director to help grow his brand. During his four years with Robert Cromeans’ team the business grew 800%. Morgan continues to work with the Cromeans family and is serving as a freelance creative director for the Robert Cromeans brand as well as regularly contributing with design and video for the parent company, Paul Mitchell.
For the past nine years Morgan has consulted, both as a freelance creative, and in-house talent. He has helped launch several companies including two highend clothing lines, Baby Boo, and The Rehab Style Project; has worked with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego creating print collateral, and donating his time to brand MCASD’s annual gala, The Monte Carlo Ball. In addition, he has created an award winning package for the San Diego Zoo‘s annual fund-raiser Celebration for the Critters; and served as in-house art director for Interactivate, a large Southern California Marketing Firm. In 2005 Morgan collaborated with long time friend Ross Hendler on ground-breaking corporate Reality Show 13 Weeks for Access Nurses, as the show’s co-creator and artistic director. 13 Weeks received international acclaim with feature segments on CNN, CNBC, ABC World News Tonight, and many international newspapers and magazines. With the success of the show Access Nurses enjoyed an unprecedented 150% rise in recruitment.
After completing the 13 Weeks project, Morgan was contracted by Paramount Pictures to develop their alternative branding campaign, tailored to the Gen-Y market, for the Robert Zemeckis feature Beowulf. His efforts resulted in a group of alternative key art which was applied to posters, stickers, teeshirts and other promotional merchandise. In late 2006, Morgan moved to Vancouver, for three years, and worked on several real estate projects, branding, and naming projects, designing environments, planning and excecuting sales events, and for ASPAC, the world’s 3rd largest builder, he designed a 60,000 sq. ft. museum space.
Morgan regularly consults on branding projects and product development for Paul Mitchell, and recently launched a salon brand Walk-In in partnership with them.
Morgan also designs surfaces for Starbucks Asia in partnership with Indoteak design. Wood is central to their store design, and working with their design team in Hong Kong, Morgan designs patterns in wood sheets that are used to make their stores come alive.  
In addition to design, Morgan is an accomplished fine artist having shown work at Art Basel, Art LA, and solo gallery exhibitions. His work is currently included in The Arthur M. and Jill Sackler Collection, The Joan B. Kroc Family Collection, and The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Permanent Collection.

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To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse." Paul Rand