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John Kutlu

Nice to meet you.

I'm a Brooklyn-born, NYC/Catskills-based art director, designer, and sometimes hand-poked tattoo artist.

For 14 years at Nickelodeon, I got my hands slimy across some of the network's most ambitious work: Kids' Choice Awards, San Diego Comic-Con, a collaboration with NASA, among others. The work was big, loud, and always aimed to surprise. It taught me how to operate at scale without losing the human detail that makes people feel something.

When I'm not behind a screen, I'm usually on a river matching a fly to a hatch. Fly fishing has an unexpected amount in common with design: you're reading the water, making quick decisions with incomplete information, and looking for the solution that just fits. It's taught me that the right answer has a logic to it, and that you know it when you see it.

Currently available for freelance and contract projects, and open to full-time director and creative lead roles.

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