Starting his design career in journalism design, Brad took to telling stories across platforms from digital screens to large-scale architectural environments. Brad led design at The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and at Butchershop. He worked as a Visual Design lead at Google and as Creative Director of the Wearables Design System at Meta’s Reality Labs.
As a designer, he strives to straddle the line of being succinct, subtle, and clear with being loud, obnoxious, and difficult to ignore. His inspiration as a designer comes from studying how people see and use their eyes to interact with the world, as well as the art of magic and conjuring—Brad is a practicing magician—he goes by the name Bradmagic. (See How to Design Like a Magician, or a short art film Brad made intersecting these topics.)
Headlands Center for the Arts: Guest lecture for Lindsey White and Jon Rubin JULY 2026
Reality Labs at Meta:
“True Stories”
JULY 2024
Berkeley Breakfast Club
SEP 2023
AIGA Washington DC:
“Power to the Preso”
JULY 2019
San Francisco Design Week: “Design and Wonder” (with Andrew Evans)
JULY 2019
AIGA San Francisco
“Designing like a magician”
AUGUST 2017
Contemporary Jewish Museum: “Design in the Museum” JUNE 2016
San Francisco Art Institute: Guest lecture for Lindsey White OCTOBER 2014
California College of the Arts: “Design, Magic and Disneyland”
FEBRUARY 2012