Colton Brown

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all design & code progams attended art & music writing
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  • 2024

    Cerulean

    Wrote, recorded and marketed pop single with original guitar, vocals and production.
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  • 2024

    Cathedral

    Composed and recorded an ambient sonic experience attended by a festival audience. Installed within the Sonic Sphere at Feÿ Arts Festival, May 2024.
  • 2023

    Bloom

    Produced an immersive audio-visual concert in DUMBO featuring the algorithmic music of Elliot Cole. Managed budget, production design, ticketing, and sound.
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  • 01.2023

    participant @ designing spaces for humans

    Attended 6-week architecture program, learning architectural thinking, floor plan analysis, and rendering in Rhino.
  • 08.2022

    resident @ arts letters & numbers

    Composed and performed original piece for synthesizer and piano at 2-week summer program.
  • 2.2022

    xyz.church

    Founded a speculative organization to research new funding models for independent music.
  • 5.2021

    The Game That Almost Died During Covid

    Wrote a blog post describing the process of building a web game during the pandemic.
  • 5.2021

    writey drawey

    Designed and built a web game connecting friends during the pandemic.
  • 4.2021

    glyph.land

    A meditation on globalization, and development, computer vision.
  • 2021

    Guest Speaker @ On Deck Fellowship

    I was invited to speak to an On Deck Designers cohort about my experiences connecting design and engineering organizations.
  • 05.2020

    9millionreasons.nyc

    as a freelancer, I built a custom website for a new york based food bank.
  • 2019—20

    product designer @ Octave

    fulltime role designing user-facing digital experiences for NYC-based mental health platform.
  • 11.2019

    volley.studio

    Designed and built an interactive portfolio website for an architectural rendering company.
  • 06.2019

    Fey Arts

    Designed and built a marketing website for an arts festival in France.
  • 01.2019

    Neighby (design & dev)

    As a freelancer, I designed and built a a web application that collects data on NYC neighborhoods.
  • 2017—19

    developer & partner @ For Good Measure

    created websites and branding packages for a range of clients alongside two graphic designers; aided in business oprerations and client acquisition
  • 12.2018

    Flourish Cash w/ Elephant

    As a freelancer, I worked on the development of Flourish Cash, a fintech application lead by Elephant Creative in NYC.
  • 2018

    creative technology partner @ forgoodmeasure.us

    created websites and branding packages for a range of clients alongside two graphic designers; aided in business oprerations and client acquisition.
  • 09.2017

    Hope Floats w/ Pioneer Works

    As a freelancer, I developed software for an art project within the Tech Lab at Pioneerworks.
  • 2015—17

    developer @ Uber

    built external and internal full-stack web systems for a number of Uber initiatives out of the New York office.
  • 08.2015

    Freelance Developer @ Seekpanda

    As a freelancer, I designed and built an MVP for a Chinese language translation company.
  • 2013—15

    developer @ Honey

    built an SEO-optimized web framework, designed and executed an API-driven architecture as an early hire for LA-based coupon startup.
  • 2013

    Duke University

    Bachelors in Physics + Computer Science w/ concentrated electives in Visual Studies.
  • 2008

    architecture development program @ Wash U

    pre-college architecture program that triggered my interest in design.