Michael Kemper, Metaliq

Kemper has professionally directed print, interactive, video, and animation projects in every industry vertical for some of the world's largest companies including: AOL, Macromedia / Adobe, Omnicom Group, eBay, Microsoft, HP, Comcast, Six Flags, Qwest, RKO Pictures, Vail Resorts, Yahoo! and several others. His work has been featured on FOX News, Forbes.com, MSN, Adobe Labs as well as conference presentations at Adobe MAX, Microsoft MIX, Flashforward and Microsoft WPC. Kemper has also contributed design and interaction work to desktop products in Adobe's CS3 Suite including but not limited to: Flash, Photoshop, SoundBooth, Encore, and Live Color as well as Microsoft's Expression Media Encoder Application and Blend / Silverlight . He is the recipient of several Art Director's Club and Addy Awards and has been recognized by eDesign Magazine and Communication Arts Magazine's Interactive Annual for motion graphics and information design. As Metaliq's Creative Director, Kemper recruits, mentors and manages our team of designers. He is the production liaison responsible for balancing business, design and technical requirements for each project.

Kemper is also a dedicated educator and mentor in the design community. He is an instructor at the Academy of Art San Francisco’s School of Digital Arts + Communications MFA program and lectures on the topic of motion graphics and experience design for digital media at select events. Kemper has written several design tutorials and training guides and is co-author of Advanced Flash Interface Design published Internationally by Apress / friends of ED.