Cliff Chen

Experience Design, Creative Direction, and Storytelling in Los Angeles, CA

Cliff Chen

Experience Design, Creative Direction, and Storytelling in Los Angeles, CA

Listen to my music

You might say I’m a Swiss army knife of creativity. My first loves are family, art, and serving just causes with my talent.

Musically, I’m a producer-songwriter who works with talented artists to tell meaningful stories and create new classics. I also rap.

Behind this, a deep entrepreneurial streak runs in me. Back in 2008, I founded LOCUS, an award-winning branding & storytelling firm on a social good mission. We did some incredible work over the years: rebranding the world’s largest LGBT community center, giving the iconic Santa Monica Pier theme park a brilliant new identity, and telling a mind-blowing story about the world’s first fully robot-powered biosciences lab.

From 2018 onward, I joined the founding team at Vi, a fitness-innovation company, as chief of creative & experience. I design a virtual coaching platform and build interactive guided workouts that bring fun, personal training to far more people.

I enjoy thinking strategically, solving really hard problems, and telling a great story. I also like to shut up, get in a zone, and let music do the talking when words don’t fit.

  • Work
    • Strategy, Branding, Design
  • Education
    • Art Center College of Design
    • Rhode Island School of Design