Josh Rubin

Josh Rubin is COOL HUNTING's co-founder, editor and executive creative director. He brings his background as a photographer and expertise as a user experience designer to his point of view on what makes a good story—this most often includes intersectionality between art, culture, technology and design. At COOL HUNTING Studio he works on product design collaborations, hosts travel experiences and consults on trends and futuring. Josh hosts the Design Tangents podcast alongside his husband and COOL HUNTING co-founder, Evan Orensten.

Josh is a world traveling urban hippie who’s obsessed with most things Japanese, loves Sealyham Terriers and is very food motivated.

Prior to COOL HUNTING, Josh built and ran the Mobile Solutions team at Razorfish before continuing on to lead User Experience design at Motorola at the point when screens on mobile phones were becoming interactive. For several years alongside COOL HUNTING he was a founding partner at Bond Art + Science working on digital strategy and design for clients including Nike, Microsoft, MTV, Condé Nast, The Week, The Atlantic and Fast Company among others.

His unconventional undergraduate studies at Hampshire College blended photography and cognitive science, establishing the foundation of his focus on interaction design and user experience. In graduate school at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program he made interactive installation art alongside designing and prototyping modular, scalable, and map-based touch-screen interfaces akin to what’s mainstream today—but that was in 1999.