James Sundstad is an award-winning creative director, brand strategist, store designer and project manager. He leads teams in developing branding, design, architecture and build practices. He has created customer experiences extensively in all categories of retail, including Hospitality, Fashion Retail, Convenience Store, Grocery Store, Drug Store, Quick-Serve Restaurant and high-end Culinary Design. With experience in the UK, EU, UAE and Asia, James has worked in collaboration with top architects, interior designers, graphics firms, ad agencies, PR agencies, strategist, writers, creators and humans of all kinds - all over the globe. For more than 35 years his expertise in brand creation, restaurant/retail design development and branded architecture has helped set the course for some of today’s most successful brands. James has led teams large and small and is a hands-on creative mind with a passion to design and to inspire great design and ideas in others. James has focused his career on branding and telling the brand’s story through the environmental experience. James brings together the most talented creative minds with the best and the brightest clients. His overarching goal; to build great brands and transform the way consumers experience the brand in a online and offline environment.James’s philosophy of removing the barriers between branding, architecture and build, a methodology he has perfected in bringing countless concepts to market. Using this method projects get to market with greatly improved timeframes and measurably reduced budgets. James’s branded restaurant and retail concepts consistently build increased revenues and market position for his clients and examples of his work are experienced by consumers in thousands of locations across the US and internationally. http://werkhaus.design