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STORYTELLER • PRODUCT BUILDER • USEFUL TRANSLATOR

About Sam

I’ve spent my career making the unfamiliar feel inviting.

Animation taught me to communicate through character and motion. Building original stories taught me how ideas become worlds people can enter. Product leadership taught me to turn ambiguity into decisions. 


Today, I bring those disciplines together for teams working on ideas that are new, complicated, or a little unusual.

My career has been less a ladder, more a pinball machine.

ANIMATION

ORIGINAL IP

ORIGINAL IP

Make it clear

Archer, Adult Swim, Adventure Time, visual development, team leadership.

ORIGINAL IP

ORIGINAL IP

ORIGINAL IP

Make it ownable

Comics, games, characters, pitches, publishing, and world-building.

PRODUCT

ORIGINAL IP

CONSULTING

Make it useful

Platforms, identity, loyalty, commerce, co-founding, and product strategy.

CONSULTING

ORIGINAL IP

CONSULTING

Make it real

Helping teams turn difficult possibilities into tangible next steps.

Working principles

Clarity is a creative act.

Serious work can still have a sense of humor.

Clarity is a creative act.

Making something understandable does not mean making it ordinary.

Prototypes beat opinions.

Serious work can still have a sense of humor.

Clarity is a creative act.

A rough, tangible idea creates a better conversation than a perfect abstraction.

Range is useful when it has a point.

Serious work can still have a sense of humor.

Serious work can still have a sense of humor.

The medium should follow the problem, not the other way around.

Serious work can still have a sense of humor.

Serious work can still have a sense of humor.

Serious work can still have a sense of humor.

People think better when the room has a little oxygen in it.

“Sam is one of those rare talents that can’t be compartmentalized.”


Jonathan Bass · Creative collaborator

Need help with your project?

Drop me a line if you need help with: New products, Original IP, AI experiments, Interactive experiences , Creative technology

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