Robert Hodgin

Biography

 Robert Hodgin co-founded The Barbarian Group LLC and serves as ECD of its San Francisco office. Mr. Hodgin serves as Partner of The Barbarian Group. He heads up the San Francisco office and the Barbarian Labs. Prior to joining The Barbarian Group, he worked as a freelance designer, and before that held positions at Arnold Worldwide and Circle.com. He has focused on pushing the limits of motion-intensive interactive sites. He was the creative force behind some of The Barbarian Group's most visually compelling sites. During “The Bubble,” he received wide acclaim as the creative and Flash force behind turbonium.com. He was also the art director and Flash developer on the first VW Autoshow minisite, also the recipient of several major awards. Mr. Hodgin worked with such clients as Royal Carribbean, Converse and Footjoy, creating interactive, branded Flash experiences. He also worked with Macromedia, assisting in the development of Flash 5, contributing to the development look and feel, and to the libraries and tutorials. He is the creative force and programmer behind flight404.com - an interactive, experimental Flash site. Mr. Hodgin has received numerous awards for this site, and has spoken at dozens of conferences in the US and Europe. He has won several major design awards, including the Grand Clio, several Gold and Silver Pencils, several Hatch Awards, the NEWD (New England Web Design) Awards, the MIMC (Massachusetts Interactive Media Council) Awards and over five Macromedia Sites of the Day. Mr. Hodgin attended Rhode Island School of Design, where he received a BFA.

Research Interest

  Business and Management