MATT MURPHY DESIGN NEW YORK CITY • BUILDING BRANDS AND THE PRODUCTS THEY SELL • BRAND IDENTITY & COMMUNICATIONS DESIGN • MARKETING STRATEGY • PRINT, DIGITAL & GRAPHIC DESIGN • PRODUCT, PACKAGING & RETAIL DESIGN • PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, SOURCING & DELIVERY • MATT MURPHY LUXURY HANDBAGS & LEATHERGOODS • MATT MURPHY BLUE LABEL BAGS

Matt Murphy is a designer living in New York City. Matt Murphy Design is an award-winning New York-based full-service design agency with the tagline "Building brands and the products they sell". Specializing in brand identity, communications design, marketing strategy, print, digital and graphic design, product design, packaging design, retail design and consultation, product development, product sourcing, and direct-to-clinet (turn-key) custom-made product delivery. In addition to luxury products, MMD creates and delivers custom promotional and premium products for corporate client gifting, marketing, and promotional needs. Matt Murphy Design Inc, because of it's founder's established brand of accessories, specializes in fashion accessories design consultancy including small leathergoods, women's and men's handbags and accessories, shoes, belts, travel accessories and travel goods. Mr. Murphy is best known for his luxury Handbags and Leathergoods for his clients and own labels. He has also designed graphics, custom watches, furniture, interiors and other products. Matt Murphy is also the founder and designer of the Sel Magique brand of gourmet fleur de sel cooking salts and other products. A native of Southern California, he was awarded a degree in environmental design from Art Center College of Design, with magazine and television coverage of his work prior to graduation. In 1996 he became the youngest member to be included into the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) at 26 years old. Evolving out of Murphy's thesis of portable architecture and nomadic lifestyle, his collection of handbags and leathergoods, under the Matt Murphy Brand, launched in 1995 selling to Maxfield, Fred Segal, Takashimaya and other luxury retailers. The collection featured hand-cast sterling silver hardware and fine Italian leather combining luxury, utility and style. Murphy’s creative focus on detail, form and materials is influenced by his background in architecture and design. His attention to structure and function translates into a sleek, timeless look. The bags feature ergonomic surprises such as hidden pockets, convertible straps, and weightless balance. The hand-made bags in lambskin, python and ostrich are favorites of his clients. The global launch of Murphy’s co-branded collection of retail accessories for M.A.C. Cosmetics underscored the commercial value of Murphy’s versatility as a designer, evolving a brand category in identity and product on an international scale. Murphy’s company broadened to include private label design and manufacture, graphics, packaging, identity and branding. In 2003, Matt Murphy Blue Label launched as a project brand with Zing magazine at Colette, Paris. Blue Label distills the essence and style of Murphy’s designs into special editions with luxury brands, museums, and galleries including the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), White Columns Gallery, and the Wall Street Journal. In 2010, Murphy won the CFDA / Luxottica Design Series Award with a comission to produce his eyewear design, sunglasses for the Vogue brand owned by Luxottica. In 2005, Murphy's handbag design was selected into the permanent collection of the New York Metropolitan Transit Museum, Brooklyn, to commemorate the Centennial of the NYC subway system. In 2001 Murphy was nominated for the Rising Star Award through Fashion Group International. In 2001, Murphy's "Oblo" leather handbag was included into the permant collection of the Museum of the Fashion Instutite of Technology, New York. In 1996 Murphy was invited by the Costume Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, to discuss and present his collection to a group of 115 patrons. In 1995 Murphy graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, in Environmental Design with a specialized focus in architecture, product, and furniture design. In 1994 Murphy soft-launched his eponymous collection of handbags & leathergoods. In 1992, Murphy won the Grand Prize from Sunset magazine for his furniture designs for an easily buildable system of indoor/outdoor plywood furniture. In 1988, Murphy was awarded a full merit scholarship to the School of the Art Instutite of Chicago, SAIC, with his fine art emphasis in art history, drawing, and photography. Matt Murphy Design's clients include: The New Museum New York, M.A.C. Cosmetics, Lagerfeld Gallery, Le CItizen Hotel Paris, Disney, Kimberly McDonald Fine Jewelry, ReddyMade Design, the Whitney Museum, W Hotels, The Donald Judd Foundation among others as well as individual artists and celebrities. His work has been featured in Magazines including Vogue, Artforum, InStyle, New York Magazine, W and WWD, Women's Wear Daily, Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan, Lucky, ZingMagazine, and others; Books including American Fashion Designers at Home (Assouline), American Fashion Accessories (Candy Pratts Price, Assouline), Design Impact:Imagemakers (Pentagram), Bags: A Lexicon of Style (Valerie Steele, Laird Borrelli, Scriptum Editions); Films including Sex and the City (Kim Cattral), Imaginary Heros (Sigourney Weaver), The Suburbans (Ben Stiller, Jennifer Love-Hewitt); and on Television including CBS News, ABC News, The Early SHow, Videofashion!, Entertainment Tonight, IFC, Oprah, and others.