Arturon Agency
Figma-led interface design, product thinking, design systems, UX flows, prototypes, and client-facing creative direction.
Turns ambiguous client needs into structured screens, flows, prototypes, and product decisions.
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Interfaces, systems, and cultural machinery for ideas that need to become real.
Justin Ivey is a Detroit-based creative director, product designer, brand developer, artist, and operator working across user interface, experimental media, music, events, and social experience.
Designer.
Director.
Systems thinker.
Cultural operator.
Selected work
Projects forged by systems, ideas, and necessity.
Hyperlink artifacts and digital memories for commerce and communication. Conveniently able to carry on one standard Zip Disk™.
Spacecraft Detroit
The first immersive art space in Detroit, launched in 2020 during COVID inside a 22,000 sq ft space.
Generated $250,000 in 37 operating days over three months through two executive shutdowns, largely operated solo.
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Low Res
An independent Detroit electronic and experimental music label founded in the late 1990s.
A long-running cultural platform spanning releases, identity, catalog logic, artist relationships, and independent infrastructure.
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Reset Fest
An ambient/chill-out festival and cultural platform in Detroit designed as a public decompression space.
Built from concept into venue partnership, artist coordination, communications, visual systems, and public experience.
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Product + interface experiments
Apps, tools, Figma prototypes, web experiments, sound interfaces, generative systems, and visual studies.
Hands-on exploration of how small ideas become usable products, interfaces, behaviors, and formats.
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Agency work
Former creative direction roles across GTB, Team Detroit, JWT, and related agency environments.
Senior creative experience inside large-scale production realities, client expectations, teams, deadlines, and brand systems.
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50+In-the-can video shoots
25+Shipped products + websites
2014D-NewTech inaugural pitch winner
2019Detroit Startup Week arts + blockchain panelist
2020Launched Detroit's first immersive art space
About
Screens and dreams. People and platforms. Art and artifacts.
I have survived epic work disasters that would cripple most mortal souls, and have emerged (mostly) victorious. My background moves through interface design, agency creative direction, independent music, immersive art, events, prototypes, founder work, and Detroit cultural infrastructure.
I have studied at Minneapolis College of Art & Design and School of Communication Arts, worked across Arturon Agency, GTB, Team Detroit, JWT, and built independent and commercial projects that had to ship and survive real world constraints.