Martin Brown

Design Director, Local Peoples

Melbourne

Marty Brown is Design Director at Local Peoples, an experience design and branding agency in Collingwood. Previously, he’s worked as Service Design Lead at Fjord in Melbourne, and a Senior Project Lead at IDEO, in both Tokyo and London.

Drawing on his expertise as a writer, visual designer and maker, Marty works to lead teams, manage client relationships and shapes projects through research, design strategy and execution. Throughout his career, he has built exhibitions, made films, designed retail spaces, created digital products, packaging, prototypes, presentations and advertising for clients across a wide variety of industries including retail, financial services, charities, FMCG, automobile and government agencies.

Marty is passionate about turning the complex into the concrete: bringing strategy to life through insight led-design and iterative prototyping.