As the co-founder of COOL HUNTING, Josh Rubin has spent decades uncovering signals beneath the noise—ideas that resonate, illuminate and carry the pulse of what’s next. Known for his discerning eye and unflinching standards, Josh approaches storytelling as both craft and communion, bridging the tangible and the ineffable. His work—whether visual, editorial or energetic—is rooted in alignment: between beauty and function, legacy and emergence, intellect and intuition, self and collective. He moves through the world attuned to patterns, symbols and resonance, always guided by the belief that excellence is a form of presence.

At COOL HUNTING Studio Josh works on product design collaborations, hosts travel experiences and consults on trends and futuring. He hosts the Design Tangents podcast alongside his husband and COOL HUNTING co-founder, Evan Orensten.

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.