DESIGN X SOUND

CULTIVATING CREATIVE STRATEGIES

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Rosie Rules PBS KIDS Takeover
PBS KIDS Home Page Takeovers
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PBS KIDS Talk About Series
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OCEAN EILER

Delivering Dynamic Media Innovation by Cultivating Creative Strategies.

PRESENT & FUTURE

An accomplished creative leader with more than 17 years of experience in art direction, design management, and multimedia storytelling. At PBS KIDS, he advanced to Associate Director of Design and Sound, where he guided cross-functional teams, collaborated with executives, and oversaw design strategies that shaped award-winning television, games, and apps. His contributions to PBS KIDS, Kart Kingdom, and the Talk About series, earned 13 Webby Awards and two Emmy nominations.

He thrives at the intersection of communication, strategy, and innovation, driving projects that balance creativity with measurable results. Skilled in uniting diverse teams under a shared vision, he brings both creative excellence and organizational leadership to every initiative.

He is currently exploring his next leadership opportunity, where he can apply his expertise in design direction and management to amplify brand impact and guide creative teams to success.

In parallel, he founded From the Annex (FTA), an evolving audio and media platform documenting the Washington, D.C., jungle/drum & bass community. What began as a DJ blog grew into a podcast, a live radio program, and a series of weekly and monthly livestreams. He now plans to expand FTA into a documentary project, capturing the oral history of DC’s dance music scene.

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He is an exceptionally passionate designer, renowned for his ability to create stunning user interfaces across various digital platforms, including web, mobile, and connected TV apps. Beyond his visual design skills, Ocean is also adept in sound design, user experience design, photography, problem-solving, coding, and storytelling.
Karin Jue
Karin JueHead of PBS KIDS Distribution
Ocean was my first manager at PBS, and I feel lucky to have started my design career under his leadership. He created a supportive and encouraging environment that allowed me to grow not only as a designer but also as a confident contributor to design and game reviews and team discussions. Ocean recognized that my strengths aligned with UI design and encouraged me to explore the field, which ultimately shaped the direction of my career.
Laura King
Laura KingDesign Director
From the start, he was my cheerleader for my first and many steps into the kids media world, helping me find my footing and confidence. He juggled so many projects and skills during that time - audio mixing, photography, designing, team leading, and managing contractors. The interactive promotions I built on the pbskids.org homepage were designed in collaboration with him. It was always exciting to brainstorm the interactives together and pushing the limits of what we could do. He was someone who had a hand in everything - if you needed something, he knew where it was, who to ask, or had it on hand already.
Julie Maski
Julie MaskiCreative Strategist
Ocean has been such an incredible creative to work with at PBS. If you are looking for someone with quick turn around times, fast communication, organized, creative, natural leader/mentor, you found the right guy. Ocean was my lead on a PBS design project, but he was so much more than that. He made sure every detail was correct and looked the best it could. This project was fast paced with limited time.
Carly Diamond
Carly DiamondArtist/Illustrator
Ocean is very creative and detail oriented. He managed to bring a lot of new ideas to the table and deliver on them.
Jim Cissell
Jim CissellUX