Hamilton promotes Josh Frisbie, from creative director to vice president – creative. Frisbie has been leading Hamilton’s award-winning multidisciplinary creative team for 12 years.
Under his leadership, Hamilton’s creative team magnifies customer brands through unique, immersive and real-world experiences. Frisbie maintains a deliberate emphasis on desired customer outcomes and understands how innovative design can support achieving those goals.
With a bachelor’s degree in design technology and an emphasis in exhibit design from Bemidji State University in Minnesota, Frisbie started his career in the event industry at Hamilton after graduating college in 2003. His tenure at Hamilton began almost 20 years ago as an exhibit designer before being promoted to senior designer in 2008 and design director in 2011. In 2015, Frisbie was named creative director. In addition to his creative responsibilities, Frisbie is a member of Hamilton’s leadership team.
Frisbie leads Hamilton’s experience design discipline to produce real-world experiences for promoting clients’ brands through exhibit, environment, digital, event and experience design. Under his guidance, the high impact of Hamilton’s creative has been recognized through several top national and international awards, most recently being awarded the top remarks in Exhibitor Magazine’s Find-it Top 40 for Creativity and Key Differentiators.
“For nearly 20 years, Josh has been instrumental in the design development, leadership and strategy for clients’ events and programs. Our company continues to evolve, so his diverse experience in all aspects of experiential marketing, combined with his client focus and ability to listen, interpret, and develop memorable brand experiences, is a wonderful blessing,” says Jason Weddle, CEO. “Josh brings tremendous value to our organization for both current and prospective clients, and I couldn’t be more excited about his much-deserved promotion to VP – Creative.”
In his new role, Frisbie will focus on creating human-centric experiences that elevate brands and drive emotion. He will lead the creative team across a wide variety of mediums and will be responsible for Hamilton’s creative vision and experiential plan as the company and industry evolve.
