Austin Ridling

Creative director // Art Director

I don’t do safe. I’ve built a career chasing the curveballs. The strange, bold, eyebrow-raising ideas that sometimes make people laugh, sometimes nervous.. but in the end makes them think.

For the last 15 years, I’ve had the opportunity to bring big ideas to life for some of the world’s most iconic brands. Along the way, I’ve worked with teams and clients willing to take risks—and together we’ve pulled off things like getting a puppet to fake a heroin addiction, helping visually challenged audiences “see” Tennessee, selling Domino’s stock to pizza lovers, and designing toys so charming Dolly Parton herself called them “cute.”

I started as a college athlete turned art student. Dallas born, nationally broken in, Kansas City based. A Cowboys fan (with the emotional scars to prove it). These days, I’m also a dad to two tiny tornadoes, an 80s movie nerd, and a soup-season enthusiast with a decent arm in the kitchen.

If you’ve made it this far, you’re either curious or concerned. Let’s chat