Grant Design Collaborative appointed Gregg Heard as “Director, Brand Experience” to manage the firm’s daily branding strategy and design efforts. Prior to joining Grant Design Collaborative, Heard was Creative Director at Sapient where he spent the past 4 years working in San Francisco, Atlanta and London. In 1997 he became one of the founding members of Studio Archetypes’ (now Sapient) office in Atlanta. Heard joined Studio Archetype (initially Clement Mok Designs) as a Senior Designer in 1993. Prior to that, he worked for Nesnadny and Schwartz in Cleveland, Mark Anderson Design in Palo Alto, California and Think New Ideas in Los Angeles. He has led branding and design projects for such clients as UPS, Sun Microsystems, Logitech, Revo Sunglasses, IBM, Harper Collins Publishing, Sony and Reebok.

Communication Arts, Graphis, Graphic Design:usa, The Amer ican Center for Design and the New Media Invision awards have recognized Heard’s work, as well as the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum. A native of Ohio, Heard received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kent State University.