President
Michael Lejeune is currently Creative Director for Metro (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority). Metro’s 20-person Design Studio creates all things visual for the nation’s third-largest transit agency, including advertising, wayfinding and environmental graphics, timetables, maps, fare media and customer information, bus and rail fleet design, websites and merchandising.
Prior to joining Metro, Michael was Project Director at KBDA, an award-winning design studio in West Los Angeles. He managed projects for Acura, Nike, 3Com, UCLA and Hilton Hotels, as well as writing for the City of Monterey, La Opinion and MicroTherapeutics. Before joining KBDA he was Creative Director for the 32-member in-house marketing agency of City of Hope Cancer Center.
Michael graduated from UCLA in 1986 with a degree in Communication Studies. He has been a speaker at AIGA/LA’s inaugural Shop Talk series, at STEP Inside Design’s bi-annual conference, and at AIGA/LA’s first Inside the Industry series. He recently completed the AIGA/Harvard Business School “Business Perspectives for Design Leaders” program. Michael lives with his wife, Jennifer Bedford, and children Helen and James in South Pasadena.
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