Julian Bleecker is a designer at the Advanced Design studio, Nokia Design in Los Angeles and the Near Future Laboratory. His work focuses on creating speculative designed objects, hardware and software prototyping, prop-making and design fiction films and stories meant to start conversations about possible near future technologies and their implications.
He has a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in computer-human interaction. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz where his doctoral dissertation focused on science, fiction, technology and culture.