Derrick A Riley

projects with

experience

Dimensional innovations ∙ Los Angeles
associate creative director ∙ June 2020 - present

On-site representation with team at the new LA Clippers Arena in Inglewood, California, slated to open in 2024. Primary scope includes naming rights partner coordination, sponsorship and branding masterplanning, and wayfinding conceptual design.

Dimensional innovations ∙ Los Angeles
senior designer ∙ july 2019 - june 2020

Selected and relocated by DI to design and coordinate brand partnerships at Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles.

• Worked with a variety of brands to create physical activations within club, concourse, and suite spaces. Primary client-facing representative for brands including Pepsi and Michelob Ultra.

• Coordinated design development, fabrication, and install with various on-site trades and subcontractors.

Dimensional innovations ∙ Kansas City
lead designer ∙ Feb 2017 - july 2019

Work directly with clients to craft narratives and spaces for the stories they are trying to tell, while maintaining an open conversation with DI's own fabricators & project managers to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget.

• Las Vegas Raiders Al Davis Memorial Torch — Design Lead for DI's largest project to date – both physically & monetarily – as of May 14, 2018. The largest 3D-printed sculpture in the world, the design+build project integrates the talents our design, innovation lab, engineering, and marketing departments to create a world-record-breaking iconic element.

• Design Pulse — Organize & lead an annual engagement survey for creatives within DI. In an effort to measure company effectiveness, the survey looks at five different departments to find potential areas of growth and how to best support designers with the tools they need. This effort lead directly into the adoption of Webdam, as read below:

• Webdam Implementation Lead — Coordinate the implementation & ongoing usage of Webdam, DI's first digital asset management program. The project has successfully transferred over 18,000 of DI's own project assets into one centralized hub for employees & brands to access through a custom portal.

• Tour Narrative — Working with J. Rieger & Co. distillery to craft a story telling about the history & distillation of whiskey throughout Kansas City and the 100-year-old company that lead them to where they are today.

• Event Strategy — Social media, food & bev, and event take-over strategies for clubs & spaces at both Chiefs Arrowhead Stadium & San Francisco Giants AT&T Park.

• Wayfinding — Lead the team for the Zachry Engineering Education Complex at Texas A&M, a sprawling campus building with over 800 different signs and navigation nodes.

Dimensional innovations ∙ Kansas City
designer ∙ april 2015 - feb 2017

• Design/Bid Development — With most of DI's work being design+build, design/bid presents extra challenges. Leading the Mannie L. Jackson Illinois Basketball Hall of Fame, the worked pushed the design team to incorporate fine details, ensuring the final product met the design intent.

• Promotional Museum Content — Worked with the Kansas Historical Society to create narratives for artifacts & spaces, along with final rendered videos to help the Kansas History Museum better fundraise.

• Artifact Displays — Designed custom fixtures for artifacts ranging from Arnold Palmer's golf clubs at Wake Forest University, transparent interactive LED displays for the Minnesota Vikings football mannequins, to one of two existing replica Benz Patent-Motorwagens in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium Gullwing Club.

• Wayfinding — Coordinated & designed Spanish-language signage for Caribbean Cinemas' Nuñez de Caceres flagship mall & office complex in Santo Domingo, DR.

elswood smith carlson architects
junior architect ∙ may 2014 - march 2015

• Traditional residential architecture firm. Worked daily with architects and contractors on both new residential construction and renovations.

black & veatch Special Projects Corp.
intern architect ∙ june 2012 - dec 2012

• Developed new design strategies for a proposed renovation of the existing building, as well as created
  construction documents for the renovation of the US Navy’s Naval Support Facility in Diego Garcia.

Awards

education

savannah college of art & design
bfa — architecture & design for sustainability

university of missouri - kansas city
architectural studies