John Doffing | founder

START marketing + design began as the in-house marketing agency for John Doffing's various entrepreneurial activities.     Including START INC., START SOMA, and START MOBILE.   With multiple bootstrapped companies to promote, John needed a marketing infrastructure that was exceptionally fast, decidedly efficient, and which contributed DIRECTLY to the bottom line.

It worked. And this unrelenting focus on marketing that was directly linked to RESULTS resonated. 
 
START marketing + design was born of necessity and is now open for business.

Charles Uzzell Edwards | managing director

In the year 1991 Charles left the Poll Tax riots of London behind and left for California, and became heavily involved in the local electronic music scene, Dj'ing in chill rooms and broom cupboards , throwing new moon parties and organising weekly electronic hydroponic shindigs in a nightclub in downtown San Francisco that featured artwork by Keith Haring and the fusilage of a ruined airplane once owned by the Doobie Brothers. A designer with 15 years experience in London and California as creator of PURE EVIL CLOTHING and GRAFFITITV, Charles has turned his loves of skateboarding, music, graffiti and fashion into a career.

Working under the moniker PURE EVIL Charles has exhibited worldwide and he has worked on various projects for KANGOL , RALPH LAUREN , CALVIN KLEIN , BOXFRESH and SANTA CRUZ, and he appeared as a rebel commander in STAR WARS, dancing with ewoks in the final scenes of RETURN OF THE JEDI.

Enough said.

Vulcan | creative director

Vulcan's street art has graced literally thousands of walls + trains in his native New York over the years, and his artwork appears in pretty much every book on the history of spray can + urban art.  Yet the term GRAFFITI hardly does his oeuvre justice - even if he is a legend + style innovator in this illicit genre. Vulcan’s murals have shown in museums, his art can be found on platinum album covers, and his abstract canvases hang in countless private + corporate collections. But this is just the beginning.  Vulcan is one of those unique individuals whose creativity both reflects and drives popular culture...

He first performed at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theatre when he was five, sang in funk + heavy metal bands, worked for years as a DJ in underground clubs, and produced chart-topping electronic music. He has written for VIBE, chronicled the underground motorcycle stunt scene in New York, traveled the world painting live at hip-hop festivals, spoken at NYU + Yale on the history of urban art (before being hustled out the back door to avoid the police!), competed in international video game competitions, and is currently working on his second screenplay. 
 
Vulcan's fine art currently adorns the walls of DANGER LABS and GOOGLE HEADQUARTERS in Silicon Valley, and he recently completed a giant mural installation on the walls of GREY ADVERTISING in San Francisco.  Over the past months, he has painted live for SCION and SUN MICROSYSTEMS, completed a series of custom labels for the launch of Oronoco, a new luxury rum from DIAGEO, and GOOGLE just launched a new line of VULCAN designed servers.

Vulcan is a an urban renaissance man, perpetually five years ahead of the rest of popular culture. He is a creative visionary, and his cultural insights + aesthetic provide START marketing + design with a decidedly unique competitive advantage