Designers Don't Read

Born and raised in Vancouver, Austin Howe’s personal mission is to help inspire and bring together the collective strengths of the different creative disciplines. Howe was a creative director in Portland when he met his future business partner, Mike Doherty. Together they launched the hybrid advertising agency AKA which Advertising Age’s Creativity magazine called “the next hot shop to watch.” After selling the agency, Howe spent the next 8 years freelancing as a writer and creative director for firms like Wieden+Kennedy, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, TBWA\Chiat\Day and Deutsch and gained a unique “fly-on-the-wall” perspective of some of the best advertising firms in the business which helped him develop a vision for a true hybrid company--one that integrates all of the creative disciplines across all media. Howe has worked on naming, branding, print campaigns, posters, packaging, websites, digital advertising, TV, radio and viral campaigns.