Kingpin Creative is a full-service design firm specializing in sign systems, branding and graphic design for residential complexes, entertainment, restaurant, retail, office parks and buildings.
We identify, enhance, guide, and entertain people through design. We also develop branding, advertising and marketing materials that inform, inspire, communicate and connect with consumers who are looking for a new home, business, services or a place to shop and eat.
We are looking for innovative clients to collaborate with.
Rick Chavez/Principle/Designer
With over 30 years of graphic design, branding and identity design, environmental graphic design and construction experience, Rick’s extensive work can be seen throughout the country and worldwide. Prior to starting Kingpin Creative, Rick was a Senior Designer at Hunt Design.
Some of his design & project management work include: San Diego International Airport - Monument, Parking, Exterior & Interior Wayfinding, Exposition Park - Monument & Wayfinding, City of Covina - Wayfinding Sign System, City of Corona Circle - Monument Project, Greenfield Village - Identity & Themed Sign System and project management of: Costa Mesa - Park Signage System, and Redondo Beach - Identity, Monuments & Wayfinding
In the entertainment arena, Rick’s talents can be seen in thematic design, ride experience, restaurant, wayfinding and themed signage, at Disneyland, Disney Hong Kong, Disneyworld, Downtown Disney, California Adventure, Warner Brothers Spain and Mala Bay Taiwan.
Rick’s expertise in code signage (ADA, Title 24, Title 19) coupled with his creative and technical abilities, make him a valuable asset to any project.
Gigi Johnson/Senior Designer
With over 20 years in the Graphic Design and Adverting Industry, Gigi’s expertise in the design and development of Corporate Identities, Collateral and Environmental Graphics, has earned her numerous American Advertising Federation Awards and International Summit Creative Awards. She has worked in Residential, Retail and Entertainment designing signage and environmental graphics for clientele ranging from small business to Fortune 500 Companies and from Gastro Pubs to Downtown Disney.
Her illustration, CAD, layout and presentation skills are evident in Kingpin Creative's Design Standards, Sign Programs, Construction Documentation, City Submittals, Location Plans and Message Schedules, said to be the most complete documentation in the industry. Gigi is “hands-on” and “in-the-trenches” from surveying to installation, making her project management expertise vital to Kingpin Creative's success.