Mike is a multi-disciplinary designer and co-founder of the Berlin based, Emmy award winning Karakter Design Studio. Mike designs worlds for the entertainment industry, creating concepts and designs for film, TV and video games. Mike has designed for Warner Brother’s Blade Runner 2049, HBO’s Game of Thrones, as well as for video games such as the best-selling Call of Duty series and Sony’s award-winning Horizon: Zero Dawn.

Mike’s works have been published in Expose 3: The Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe and the celebrated Spectrum series. He has also contributed to magazines such as Popular Mechanics and 3D World and is a regular lecturer at events such as Industry Workshops in London and Portugal’s Trojan Horse was a Unicorn.

Mike’s major interest is in the psychology of storytelling and how an understanding of mythology and psychology is crucial to understanding how great stories work.