About us

Supermoon creates and transforms brands for today's connected world.

We bring strategic thinking, identity development and design expertise to organizations looking to project authentic points of difference, and to deliver exceptional branded experiences to their customers, employees, and communities.

We engage seamlessly with maturing startups, challenger brands and category leaders alike, developing close partnerships with business leaders and internal design teams to deliver results that move markets. Our team excels at building holistic brands through strategy, naming, verbal identity, motion graphics, and well-crafted digital experiences. We’re also able to flex and collaborate with internal design teams who need support in one facet of the brand, whether strategic or tactical.

We’re committed and passionate about the brands we work with. Let’s talk about how we can put our passion to work for you.

For more on our specific capabilities, take a look here.

Leadership

David Freas
Managing Partner

David leads client engagements at Supermoon and aligns program planning, brand strategy and execution to the goals of our clients.

He helps organizations identify and realize growth opportunities through expertise in both branding and human-centered design, translating business objectives into creative action to transform brands and products into unique and compelling value propositions. David focuses on emerging spaces where brands need to navigate new technologies and behaviors.

For two decades David served in leadership roles at renowned global consultancies including frog, Landor, Smart Design and FutureBrand. His strategic work has led to digital entertainment innovations for Comcast Xfinity, new mobile device platforms for Microsoft, mobility services for Ford, and award-winning brand identities for fintech brands. At the core of each success was establishing high-performing, collaborative teams of designers, strategists, and technologists to consider innovative solutions and realistic plans to build and implement them.

He holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin with a focus on strategy and customer insights. Researching human behavior to inform brand and product strategy continues to be a favorite aspect of his work. You can find him sharing his expertise, learning from other experts, and generally geeking out at SXSW, CES, and anywhere the future gets made.

David and his wife, Jennifer, are parents of triplets plus one. When he isn’t brand building or spending time with his family in Mill Valley, you can find him trail running across Mt. Tamalpais.

Mike Hambleton
Creative Partner

With over 20 years experience leading design and digital creative on brand, interactive and product design programs for a wide range of global clients, Mike leads creative for Supermoon.

Mike has a highly interdisciplinary skillset, and takes an holistic approach to brand building. He has successfully delivered hundreds of projects both agency-side and in-house, incorporating brand creation, digital and mobile experiences, motion, video and advertising campaigns, as well as automotive UI, airline in-flight entertainment and digital-physical device interfaces. He speaks brand, design, UX, and marketing languages, and with a background in psychology and advanced digital experiences is able to quickly identify the human opportunities in technical innovation. Mike is expert at identifying quality insights and delivering responses through creative ideation across almost any category.

Previously he led world-class agency-side design teams in Europe and the US for Landor, AKQA, DDB, JWT, and Native Design. He has served in-house as Creative Director for Brand and UX Design for luxury EV startup Lucid Motors, as well as leading design on the e-commerce transformation program for Dutch fashion powerhouse G-Star RAW. In the US, he served as the design director for AKQA's first integrated team at Apple. His projects have won multiple international industry awards at festivals including Cannes Lions, Clios, Eurobest, D&AD, and the Webby Awards.

Born in New Zealand and a graduate of Victoria University, Wellington, he lived and worked in Amsterdam for 15 years, and has been a San Franciscan import for 10. Mike has a range of obsessions from digital tech to gaming and music, craft beer to design, and art in all its many forms. He's a life-long traveler and spends quality time in New Zealand and Europe regularly.

Hannah House
Executive Director, Brand Management

Hannah leads brand management at Supermoon, overseeing implementation planning, brand guidelines, governance, trainings, and production. 

An idea is only as effective as its implementation, and Hannah is here to help bring great ideas to life. She shepherds creative work from design through its activation in the real world, ensuring everything goes smoothly and is delivered on time, to spec, and within budget. Along the way, she oversees the creation of the resources and tools that will communicate the brand system to future users, making sure that we’re delivering materials that connect with the audience. 

Hannah has a dual adverting and branding background, with experience at top tier agencies including TBWA\Chiat\Day, Landor & Fitch, Interbrand, Merkley & Partners, and JWT, working on world-class brands including Absolut Vodka, Snickers, Mercedes-Benz (and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week), Sprint, Disney, and the top Broadway shows. She has worked in-house as well, so has a native understanding of client needs. 

Hannah lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is an expert home beer brewer. She also plays video games on her retro Xbox 360 console, experiments with cooking, and makes LED neon light art in her free time.

Previous experience

Technology

Mobility

Lifestyle