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Erik Miller is an industry influencer with over fifteen years of branding, design and advertising leadership experience. Miller has held top positions in influential design and advertising agencies including serving as President at Studio Number One founded by Shepherd Faiery and nearly ten years as Design Director for TBWA\Chiat\Day.

His philosophy has helped shape today’s branded environment and build brands such as Apple, Pepsi Co, Nissan / Infiniti, P&G, and Sony Computer Entertainment America. As a firm leader and visionary, Miller touches every brand each agency handles, engineering meaningful brand experiences targeted to their intended audience and overseeing their overall look and feel. Miller is able to blend his detail-oriented standard for design with creative leadership to supports an agency’s effort to sustain award-winning work by increasing the firm's attention to detail and graphic elegance.

His work has shaped the LAX Gateway Enhancement Project. Other highlights from Miller's accomplishments include the comprehensive rebranding of Gatorade, from logo and packaging to new product development.

Miller is a graduate of the Executive MBA program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. 

He is a professor at his alma mater, Art Center College of Design, where his philosophy and instruction focuses on building brands by using the process of disruption in order to create successful brand stories. 

He has been named one of GDUSA’s “People to Watch.”

Clients:
Apple Computer, Inc., PepsiCo, Gatorade, Nissan Motor Co., Infiniti Motor Corporation, Disney, P&G, Adidas, Sony Play Station, Visa Global, Mars/Masterfoods, Anheuser-Bush, Energizer, Harman International, Pedigree, Whiskas, Washington Mutual, Hoover, Principal Financial, Pioneer, Uncle Bens, Jimmy Dean, The Oscars, Grammy Awards, Method, Sony Computer, Entertainment America, Sara Lee, Pennzoil, Singapore Airlines, Zynga’s Farmville & Mafia Wars, Pacific Standard Time

Erik Miller Design (EMD) builds successful brands by meaningful consumer experiences through original storytelling, and innovative concepts and marketing. By creating iconic and disruptive ideas that provoke conversation. Orchestrating the brand story across all forms of media. Finding solutions that serve a brand’s unique personality.

Instructs advertising students the process of Disruption in order to build successful brand stories.

Professor

Create strategies, skills and acumen as a leader of achieving sustainable growth in business. Encompassing all business functions of the global enterprise… to catalyze positive change.

Graduate

Studio Number One (SNO) is a Los Angeles-based Advertising Agency dedicated to building and reinforcing bold, disruptive brand narratives across all media. Founded in 2003 by artist Shepard Fairey, SNO is embedded with Fairey's approach to creating striking, thought-provoking work, backed by Miller’s innovative methods and leadership.

President

As Design Director for TBWA\Chiat\Day, Erik "touches" all brands that the agency handles, and oversees the look and feel for all of them. This position enables Miller to blend his unique design abilities with his people management skills to build one of the first integrated design departments in a top tier global advertising agency. This enables the agency to continue it's award winning advertising concepts adding the attention to detail and graphic elegance of a top tier design firm.

Experience: Apple Computer, Inc., PepsiCo, Gatorade, Nissan Motor Co.,Ltd, Infiniti Motor Corporation, Adidas, Sony Play Station, Visa, Mars/Masterfoods, Anheuser-Bush, Harman International, Pedigree, Whiskas, Washington Mutual, Hoover, Principal Financial Group, Pioneer, Uncle Bens, Jimmy Dean, Oscars, Grammy, Method.

Design Director

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Erik Miller: Principal in Thousand Oaks, CA

Erik Miller

Erik Miller Design

Art Center College of Design

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Studio Number One

TBWA\Chiat\Day

Art Center College of Design

UCLA Anderson School of Management