Michael Riley
Creative Director
Michael grew up in Palo Alto, California. He has been directing and designing film and television title sequences, television commercials and branding packages since 1991.
Michael's first experience with film title design was at an internship under Tibor Kalman at his New York studio, M&Co. When he saw Mr. Kalman use typography as a thoughtful, conceptual, and expressive element in music videos and film titles, he realized the possibilities of mixing design with film.
In 1991, Michael began working at R/GA, first in the New York headquarters, then later moving to its Los Angeles office. In 2005 he opened Shine, where he leads a team designing film and television main title sequences, commercials, content for film, and branding identity packages.
Michael has received numerous design honors. Michael was the first American to win a Black Pencil from the D&AD, the British Design and Art Directors Association, for his “Gattaca” main title sequence design. He's also received six Primetime Emmy Nominations and two Children and Family Emmy Nominations. In 2022 he was awarded a Judges’ Choice Award from the Type Directors Club in New York for main title design on HBO's “Perry Mason”. SXSW awarded Michael both the Special Jury Award and the Audience Award for his title design for “Birds of Prey and The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn”. Michael's thirty main title design storyboards and animated sequences for “Dickinson” on AppleTV+ are included in the permanent collection of the Emily Dickinson Museum at Harvard University. Michael is a member of the Directors Guild of America in the Commercial Director category, and a member of the Motion and Title Design peer group at the Television Academy.
Michael is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design in Graphic Design.
Bob Swensen
Executive Producer
Bob's extensive experience integrating design, digital production and live action includes hundreds of corporate identity, network branding, film title, visual effects sequence and commercial projects.
Over the course of 15 years, Bob has been Head of Production for RGA Digital Studios in New York, and Executive Producer for Warner Digital Studios, Imaginary Forces and Trollback and Company in Los Angeles.
Bob has executive produced sequences for films and TV such as Sidney Lumet’s, Night Falls on Manhattan, Brian De Palma’s Bonfire of the Vanities, Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2, Too Big to Fail, Modern Family and Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom. Also, he has executive produced the branding and design for the launch of the Fox Reality network and the re-launch of Lifetime, TNT, AMC, and Sundance Channel’s DocDay. Other clients have included Reebok, Pepsi, McDonald’s, Shell, Michelin, Intel, Taco Bell, Nickelodeon, Budweiser, Gap, Lands End, Sony Bravia, Qwest, Showtime, TCM and HBO. Awards for projects that Bob has Executive Produced include The Cannes Gold Lion, A.I.C.P. highlight and he has received four primetime Emmy nominations.
Bob is a graduate of Film Studies at New York University.
