A short bio...

Brian Bowman
M: 973.851.8764
E: brian@bleb.me
twitter: brianlevibowman

I am a director and motion designer working in and around New York City.

I began my career as an architect in New York and designed several buildings, none of which were ever built. Frustrated, I turned to filmmaking to represent creative ideas relating to time, space, reality and the future. This lead to a series of short films that were screened at several festivals including onedotzero, Resfest, South by Southwest, 404 Festival and Bitfilm.

In 2006, I joined Tronic Studio as a designer and continued an interest in the intersections between digital representation and the built environment.

After Tronic, I was the creative director for Digital Kitchen New York from 2007 to 2010. With DK, I directed a broad range of advertising, entertainment and experience projects for Microsoft, Jose Cuervo, MTV, and HBO to name a few.

Recently, I've joined Nice Shoes to build a design and production studio to compliment their other well known color grading and visual effects capabilities.  We are currently working on a mix of creative projects like the 3D stereo film Found, recognized titles for the 404 Festival and the feature film Love Etc., along with project based nontraditional and interactive content for GE, Smirnoff, Tory Burch and Timex.

My short films have been officially selected for the following festivals:
2003: Spheres of Desire - Resfest, New York & Global Tour
2005: Eco - onedotzero, London & Global Tour
2005: Eco - 25fps, Zagreb, Croatia
2005: City Lights, Dark Duplicates - onedotzero, London & Global Tour
2006: City Lights, Dark Duplicates - Art Contemporain a Boulogne-Billancourt, Mobile Exhibition, Paris
2009: Meridian - South by Southwest, Austin, Texas
2009: Lifecycle - F5, New York
2011: Found - 404 Festival, Argentina & Global Tour

My work has been featured in the following print, online and media publications:
2001: World Architecture, 2001: 01/02, Special Issue on NBBJ, No. 76/77
2008: Motionographer, Meridian, published 8/13/2008
2010: RootSpeak, The Films of Brian Bowman, published 6/20/2010
2011: Stash 76, 404 Identity Film, DVD released 1/5/2011
2011: Computer Arts, February 2011, #184, Nice Shoes gets it right for 404, pg. 13
2011: Source Ecreative, July 2011, Special Feature, Nice Shoes 3D Shorts Serve as Creative Showcase 
2011: Stash 83, Poetry X 3 (Bonus Disk), DVD released 8/5/2011
2011: Red Room Blog, Red Giant, August 2011, Poetry In Motion

I have spoken or given presentations at the following events:
2005: Projective Crossings - Syracuse University, School of Architecture, Syracuse, New York
2006: Luster - New York
2009: F5 - "Lifecycle", New York
2009: Columbia University - "Lifecycle", GSAPP, New York
2011: NYC ACM SIGGRAPH - Industry Spotlight IX, New York
2011: Verses - Screening and Q&A, Crosby Street Hotel, New York
2011: Motion Conference - "Elastic Spaces" and "Found", Albuquerque, New Mexico
2011: fxPhd - AFX216 Motion Graphics/Design Workshop, online series

My education:
Columbia University
Master of Architecture
Class of 2000

The Ohio State University
Bachelor of Science, Architecture
Class of 1997