John Kieselhorst has developed a diverse body of work as a visual designer and creative director for some of the world's most prestigious brand-building agencies. His roster of design and advertising clients includes brands like Domino’s Pizza, The Climate Reality Project, IBM, Jell-O, Kia Motors, Lyft, Motorola, Nike, the One Club, Seventh Generation, Starbucks Coffee, Timberland and Volvo. Between employment gigs, he’s founded a design firm, an advertising agency, and, most recently, a tea company.
From 2018-2020, John served as Chief Creative Officer at Boulder, CO startup and plastic doodad-maker PopSockets (those things on the back of everyone’s phones), where he oversaw a complete brand transformation, built out an in-house creative agency and content studio, oversaw design of the corporate headquarters, and helped frame creative strategies for everything from trademarks and product naming to the company’s core brand purpose, Poptivism.
From 2012-2018, John was partner and Chief Design Officer at the advertising agency Made, co-founded in 2012 with advertising legends Dave Schiff and Alex Bogusky, and creative technologist Scott Prindle. Previous to that, John served as Executive Design Director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, where he oversaw visual design across all of the agency’s accounts in its three North American offices. While at CP+B, he lead the transformation of the Domino’s brand creating everything from eye-popping pizza boxes, to a reductive new logotype, to a reimagined in-store experience.
John’s work has been recognized by the ANDY, ADDY, AIGA 365, AIGA 50 Covers, Art Directors Club, the California Design Biennial, Cannes, Clio, Dieline, fwa, London International, One Show, One Show Design and One Show Interactive awards. He and his work have appeared variously in the New York Times, AdAge, Adweek, Metropolis, and Eye. John has been a visiting design instructor at the UCLA Dept. of Architecture, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
Above all else, John loves his wife Darcie and son Charlie, mother nature, most art worlds, great fictions, culture high and low, and moving his feet in various natural settings.
