Transient Pod Design Collective

In a design culture that is becoming more specialized we embrace our diversity of broad talents to effectively solve complicated design problems. Transient Pod boasts some of the industries top talent.

POD ID: 001 MILES NURSE
Founder & Creative Director

Miles’ work experience is broad and he is considered an expert in the “process of design.” His strengths are in his ability to lead teams and create breadth & structure on projects, while nurturing the delicate needs of the creative process. Miles is driven by his entrepreneurial spirit, which started 15 years ago when he was as a general manager for a company that specialized in providing rare collectibles and fossils to a broad international clientele, to later running a successful company that provided services to the diving and tourism industry. Miles’ passion lies in three areas; Product, Consumers and Talent.

Product:

As a cinematographer and advocate for the underwater world Miles has teamed up with National Geographic to produce marine conservation videos, participated in dive medicine research projects with the Divers Alert Network and led many environmental conservation projects, fundraisers, clean up days & marine educational seminars. As a Designer, Producer and Creative Director Miles has created brand strategies for international clients, established product excellence benchmarks, spearheaded viral marketing campaigns, and driven many large scale interactive gaming & web experiences.

Consumers:

Miles founded Transient Pod on a the core principles of  Human Centred & Participatory Design,  The most successful design solutions are born through a thorough understanding of users, their motivations for using a product or service, and how they integrate it into their lifestyle. From this designers can bridge the gap between entertainment & usability and use storytelling tools to invoke a meaningful user journey.

Talent:

Working as an educator is an incredibly rewarding and inspiring experience. It provides opportunities to explore your boundaries as a designer through research and curriculum development, while working with a group of developing minds. As an educator Miles’ career started more that 12 years ago as a PADI Master Instructor to recently as a Digital Design Instructor at VFS  (past 3+ years.)  VFS annually recognizes one instructor who demonstrates excellence in instruction and exemplifies passion, innovation, experience and ‘results’ in their teaching. In 2009 Miles won this award which is voted on by both current & past students and by VFS colleagues.

In addition to being passionate about diving & design, Miles is also our underwater break dancing champion and CEO of good times. Whether it’s Monday afternoon crunch time at the driving range, Tuesday lunch trips to new tasty destination, Wednesday nights grilling smokies and storming the beach with the volleyball team or pouring secret elixirs at the Friday wine club; Miles truly believes that if you provide a clear vision, create a playful work environment and take care of your people, then they will take care of the work.

Miles is always interested in the prospect of leveraging his 15 yrs of leadership, design and instructional experience with organizations who share a similar core philosophy.

Specialties:

Crafting Product Vision, Innovation in Product / Experience Design, Creative Direction, Interactive Design, Underwater Imaging, Brand & ID, Team Building, Coaching, User Experience Consultation, Interactive Business Development, Casual Gaming, Scuba & Design Education

View Miles’ complete profile at Linkedin

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POD ID: 002 SCOTT LEW
Interactive Story Designer

Scott is not your traditional designer. He’s never had the “eye” for colors, graphics or even images – but what he does have is an obsession for story. A true believer that everyone can enjoy a good narrative, every project he’s ever worked on has told a story from beginning to end. Pictures, graphics, videos, websites and all interactive experiences need to bring users/viewers/readers on a journey, making the narrative design important to the process.

Scott is our instigator of office water cooler discussions. Whenever something awkward or strange happens in the office, if you immediately look over at the left corner of the room you will see Scott with a cup of tea in his hand looking slightly gob smacked. We believe this is why Scott has so many good stories and why he is such a great storyteller. Although sometimes deemed as high-maintenance (or in some cases a “princess”) Scott simply believes in being taken care of. If all of the parts in a machine are well-oiled, then a successful efficiency can always be achieved.

Scott also brings us a well-oiled, high octane volleyball presence. When we need to turn up the heat, Scott becomes our fire-starter, launching endless rounds of earth scorching spikes. This has unfortunately led to some accidental office incineration… but our team members seem to be comfortable with this risk.

Specialties:

Web Writing, Ad Writing, Content Strategy, Interactive Narrative, Non-Linear Storytelling, Video Game Writing, Dialogue

View Scott’s complete profile at Linkedin

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POD ID: 003 BUN LEE
Motion & Audio Designer

Bun Lee’s career in digital design began in the smouldering underground music scene of his native Hong Kong where he became an award winning mix master in the coveted Mixing Championship through the infamous DMC (Disco Mix Club). Bun’s mastery of particular musical genres led him to sound engineering and mastering in the Analogue to Digital Recording programme at the Columbia Academy in beautiful Vancouver , British Columbia .

While maintaining his roots in the underground DJ scene, Bun continued his studies at the Vancouver Film School working on digital design projects and graduating with a Certificate of Excellence focusing on special effects and non-linear digital video editing. Upon graduation, Bun remained on at VFS as a teaching assistant in sound design mentoring in ProTools and rapidly moved into advanced visual effects. Bun is currently VFS Digital Design’s instructor in visual effects and compositing, and continues to work with students as a mentor on matters of cine, lighting, non-linear video editing and sound engineering.

Bun is definitely our most vocal member. He comes to design meetings with his big red pen and by the time we’re done it looks like we where playing Tic Tac Toe for hours. It is also widely unknown, but Bun possesses a super power which is why you will always see him with glasses on; even when he goes to bed. We’ve been told that someone once saw him without his glasses but later this person was found with amnesia in a dark alley covered in permanent red marker.

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