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Josh Rubin

Founder, Editor and Executive Creative Director
Cool Hunting

Josh Rubin is COOL HUNTING's co-founder, editor and executive creative director. He brings his background as a photographer and expertise as a user experience designer to his point of view on what makes a good story—this most often includes intersectionality between art, culture, technology and design. At COOL HUNTING Studio he works on product design collaborations, hosts travel experiences and consults on trends and futuring. Josh hosts the Design Tangents podcast alongside his husband and COOL HUNTING co-founder, Evan Orensten.

Prior to COOL HUNTING, Josh built and ran the Mobile Solutions team at Razorfish before continuing on to lead User Experience design at Motorola at the point when screens on mobile phones were becoming interactive. For several years alongside COOL HUNTING he was a founding partner at Bond Art + Science working on digital strategy and design for clients including Nike, Microsoft, MTV, Condé Nast, The Week, The Atlantic and Fast Company among others.

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