Austin Li Los Angeles, California

Bringing Life to Live Experiences.

A holistic approach to design, built on training across the arts, technology, communications, and the business of innovation. Those four disciplines rarely sit at the same table, and the value of holding all of them is being able to move between them — to read a brief as a craft problem, a systems problem, an audience problem, and a commercial one at the same time, and to recognise which of the four the answer actually lives in.

In practice that means fewer handoffs and fewer translation losses. A concept can be argued for in the language of the person who has to approve it, drawn in the detail the fabricator needs, and specified so the operator running it after launch is never guessing. Work that moves through one head instead of four moves faster, and it arrives intact.

The more durable part of the method is teaching it. Cross-disciplinary fluency is transferable, and passing it to a team — how a designer reads a P&L, how an operator briefs creative, what a fabrication drawing has to carry — builds a communication chain that holds under pressure. Teams that share that vocabulary make better decisions without waiting for permission, which is what makes tight timelines survivable.

Based
Los Angeles, California
Focus
Brand strategy, creative marketing, environmental design
Tools
Adobe Creative Cloud, CAD & 3D modeling, print production
Open to
Brand and creative marketing roles in hospitality, venues, and live entertainment

Skillsets

Brand & identity

Identity systems, logos, and brand guidelines. Narrative strategy that gives a property something to say before it decides how to look.

Creative marketing

Launch campaigns, event graphics, seasonal programs, menus, social and email. Asset libraries built so a venue team can keep shipping without a designer on call.

Environments & 3D

CAD modeling, renders that win approval, signage systems, and on-site brand execution audits from install through service.

Experience

Selected
2025 – PresentSodexo Live!
Marketing CoordinatorLos Angeles  ·  Brand execution, launch marketing, and program design across ten-plus accounts. Previously Operations, Sales & Marketing Intern.
2024MGM Resorts International
3D & Graphic DesignerMacao  ·  Identity, environment design, CAD models, and renders for the MGM Reserve kids’ club amenity, installed across Mainland China.
2023 – 2024MGM Resorts International
Marketing Communications InternShanghai  ·  Campaign work across the West Bund property calendar — NYE countdown, Asia’s 50 Best Bars, Lunar New Year, and the Artist+ collaboration launch.
2022 – 2023Jaq Jaq Bird
Digital Marketer & DesignerLos Angeles  ·  Packaging concepts, original illustration, retail display, and digital publishing that reached 105,000+ cumulative views.
2022WNDR Museum
Immersive Design ConsultantChicago  ·  Original STEAM curricula for the Chicago Public School system, and the market research behind future installations.

Don’t be a stranger.

Open to brand and creative marketing roles, and happy to talk about a venue problem that needs solving.

Location
Los Angeles, California  ·  available to relocate