COLTON CORRY
A Creative Director who thinks in materials and space, and works in brand.
Trained at Art Center College of Design, with fifteen+ years experience across all areas of branding, consumer products, and the built environment. Colton brings a maker's precision to every project and holds the work together from strategy through craft.
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ABOUT
Colton is currently creative director at Utah City and recently started a Substack called Materials, Form & Authorship - an exercise in documenting personal projects and an exploration of the self through making objects. He joined the Utah City project in 2024. He is particular about pens. Keeps a journal. Enjoys electronic music. Is loosely working on a personal photography project. Happens to cheer for the two best teams in baseball. Listens to the news in Spanish. And, having lived and worked in Los Angeles, CA and Brooklyn, NY, now lives in Salt Lake City, UT with his wife and their three children.
Portrait by Tara Corry | Self-portrait Dover Street Market London shot on Ricoh GRIIIxCREATIVE DIRECTION
2024-Present: Creative director at Utah City, a 700-acre mixed-use development currently in its first phase.
Leading a team across brand, design & creative production, with responsibility for establishing and protecting the creative standard across the project.
→ Brand identity systems
→ Creative strategy
→ Design production management & vendor coordination
→ Environmental design
→ Collaborates with ownership and directors on the overall vision
→ Marketing support across digital & physical touchpoints
DESIGN
Fifteen+ years of hands-on design work across agency, in-house, and independent contexts. Making things at every scale, from full brand identity systems to physical objects. The range is the best part of design.
The work has always moved between disciplines. A packaging brief is usually a larger brand question – A furniture project is a utility and spatial one. Following the problem wherever it goes is the process.
→ Branding & identity systems
→ Packaging for consumer products
→ Furniture & light manufacturing
→ Architectural & interior design
→ Client relationships across short engagements & long partnerships
Identity for doodad (Los Angeles based furniture dealer & designer) |
Art Direction & Design for Purple |
Campaign Art Direction & Design Skullcandy |
FARMSHOP Branding - Identity, Menu Design, & Environmental Design |
Architectural Schematic Design & Furniture Plan |
Furniture Design & Fabrication |
Identity for doodad (Los Angeles based furniture dealer & designer) | Art Direction & Design for Purple | Campaign Art Direction & Design Skullcandy | FARMSHOP Branding - Identity, Menu Design, & Environmental Design | Architectural Schematic Design & Furniture Plan | Furniture Design & Fabrication |
VARIOUS PROJECTS
Some work starts with a client. Some starts with curiosity. Throughout my career, projects have sparked further investigations, hobbies have turned into serious pursuits, and new skills have a way of leading to unexpected places.
Additional interests include:
→ Furniture Design
→ Sculpture
→ Metal Work
→ Woodwork
→ Photography
→ Materials & Manufacturing
