Born and raised in Los Angeles, Justin Leibow makes a living as a creative director and graphic designer. Seamlessly engaging in live action direction, visual effects, illustration, photography and writing, he is one of the four principals of Superfad. He creates award winning graphically informed sequences for the advertising industry.
From day one, he liked drawing. As he grew older, he greedily learned the rest. He graduated with a B.A. in Design from UCLA, where he spent a year in the film school's animation workshop in 1993. Soon after, Justin worked on the Ren & Stimpy show. Anxious to break new ground, he moved to Seattle for interactive design, then primarily expressed on CD-ROM and the just blossoming web. The bandwidth constraints of new media led Justin to embrace motion-based design for television and film. Here at last was a place of unlimited realization of visual goals. At the end of 1999, he fled back to Los Angeles to enjoy projects that were much more graphical in nature. Spending a couple years with Razorfish and a few with Fuel, Justin grew alongside maturing industry of motion graphics.
During 2005, in a wonderful and perhaps fated set of circumstances, he found himself reunited with three former co-workers and still close friends as a partner in Superfad, a multi-disciplinary production company with graphic design at its core. Today, along with teaching as part of the graphics faculty at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Justin fortunately generates imagery among the inspiring community he helped build at Superfad.
His constant companion, impatience, provides inspiration for his commitment to letting concepts positively inform his work. Of course, the fortune of operating in such a creative, challenging and ever-shifting racket makes each day a blast. Most importantly though, his wife, daughter and son keep him sane and incredibly grateful.