A design agency specializing in interaction design, user experience, visual design, branding, and web development.

Separately, we're James Hobbs and Ryan Wilke, two multi-talented designers with heaps of experience in design and web development. Together, we're an explosive force of creativity ready to take on any problem you throw our way.

James Hobbs

James swam across the Pacific Oceans from New Zealand to California in a single (but very deep) breath. This was, of course, after he spent his time in New Zealand honing his design skills in an advertising agency and then later as a freelance Art Director for several years. Now, several thousand strokes later, he joins us as our Chief Creative.

  • synergy
  • awesome-sauce
  • hot music
  • feng shui
  • 8 appendages
  • big(ger) bang

Ryan Wilke

Ryan fought his way through all 10,000 lakes of Minnesota and the vast plains of the Midwest to find his home in Santa Cruz, California. Before taming hundreds of moose, bison, and mosquitoes with his bare hands, he began his creative career as a photographer and freelance designer while studying web development. He later worked as a lead designer for one of California's top-notch, interaction design agencies before co-founding Octopus Creative.