Mike Munroe

Motion and visual designer

Mike Munroe

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Profile

I'm a designer with over twenty years of experience across motion, video, brand and web for tech companies. For the last eleven I was at Redbrick, where I rose to Art Director, leading motion and video across its portfolio and designing identities including the Quartz, Shift and Paved logos. I take work from brief to the shipped product, and I build the systems that keep a brand consistent. I'm at my best working closely with product, marketing and engineering, turning loose ideas into work people can use.

Experience

Art Director, Video & Motion Design

Redbrick, 2024 – 2026

  • Led art direction and production for video and motion across Redbrick and its portfolio companies, including Shift, Animoto, Paved, Delivra and Quartz, working hands-on and directing other designers on larger projects.
  • Owned brand and design decisions with stakeholders on major initiatives, partnering with development, marketing, analytics and product teams.
  • Built AI-assisted workflows into video and motion production, achieving faster delivery times and expanding creative potential.
  • Mentored designers as the creative team grew from three to eight.

Web & Multimedia Designer

Redbrick, 2018 – 2024

  • Designed and produced product animation for Shift, Leadpages, Delivra, Animoto and more.
  • Produced video end to end, including storyboarding, shooting, editing and motion graphics, for product launches, paid media and brand campaigns.
  • Designed brand identities, including the Shift logo, and responsive marketing sites for portfolio companies.

UX Designer

Assembly (formerly Upwords), a Redbrick company, 2015 – 2018, half-time

Designed websites, products and brands.

Graphic Designer

Tapstream, 2012 – 2018, half-time alongside Assembly from 2015

Branding, illustration, web design and front-end build.

Co-founder

MassHabit Games, 2010 – 2015

Co-founded an indie game studio and shipped several titles. The flagship game, Squibble, passed a million downloads and earned a 9/10 from Wired.

Design, photo & video

Independent, 2003 – present

Photography, videography, brand design, graphic design, illustration, motion design and web design for clients.

Earlier

2002 – 2010

Brand, product interface and web design for Victoria software startups, 3D modelling at CloverPoint Cartographics, design and print production at Boylan Imaging.

Skills

Motion and animation

Product animation, Lottie, interaction prototyping, brand motion systems

Video

Production from storyboard to final edit. Shooting, editing, colour, motion graphics

Visual design

Brand identity, illustration, graphic design, photography

Technical

HTML and CSS, front-end constraints, performance budgets, email and mobile rendering, AI-assisted production workflows

Tools

After Effects, Premiere Pro, Figma, Bodymovin/Lottie, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Lightroom, Higgsfield

Education

Bachelor of Applied Arts, Visual Communications

Medicine Hat College, 1999 – 2003

Recommendations

I had the pleasure of working with Mike at Redbrick, and he is genuinely the most talented Motion Designer and Videographer I've ever had the opportunity to work with. … I really valued the opportunities I had to learn from him, and whenever I received his feedback, I saw it as a great opportunity to learn and grow as a designer.

Mandy Schollen, Senior Multimedia Designer at Redbrick

Mike is a motion wizard, whose technical skills are only surpassed by how thoughtful he is as a collaborator. From paid media ads, to web design, to large motion and video projects, can't recommend this guy enough!