Khristian A. Howell
Selected work

Different rooms, same lens.

From the factory floor to the keynote stage to the shelf. Each project started the same way: watch people closely, decide how it should feel, then make that feeling visible.

Film
Khristian on a factory floor during filming of the Schwinn documentary
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No Hands: The Wild Ride of the Schwinn Bicycle Company

A wild ride through American culture, childhood and cycling, from the team behind Loopers and Beyond the Brick.

RoleExecutive Producer NarratorLance Armstrong FestivalsWorld premiere, Boulder International Film Festival, April 2026. Newport Beach Film Festival and Chicago International Film Festival, October 2026.

The rise and fall of Schwinn opens into a bigger story: childhood freedom, family ambition, American manufacturing and the feeling of a first bike. Part business mystery, part family saga. A brand story told through what people remember, not what the company sold.

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Executive narrative
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Blue Yonder: New CEO, new narrative

One keynote to introduce a new leader to thousands of customers, partners and analysts.

The ask

Introduce Blue Yonder’s new CEO at ICON, the company’s flagship customer conference in Las Vegas, in a moment where customer confidence was on the line.

What we saw

A leadership change is a feeling before it is a strategy. The room needed to feel steady before it could hear a new vision.

The work

Brand discovery and stakeholder interviews, a CEO vision statement and messaging framework, the keynote from script to stage, the walk-on and opening brand films, deck and event design.

What changed

The narrative became the foundation for Blue Yonder’s ongoing executive communication. The keynote film ran as the marquee video on their homepage for over a year.

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Las Vegas · Atlanta

The first public appearance sets the tone for everything that follows.

CEO transition · Keynote · Media coaching · Event design
New York · Connecticut · Philadelphia

Don’t tell people they have to come back. Show them what is possible when they do.

Three-part docuseries · Internal transformation
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Pfizer: Return to office, reframed

A new headquarters, and a workforce that had learned to work from home.

The ask

Give a global workforce a real reason to return to Pfizer’s new headquarters.

What we saw

Mandates breed resentment. People needed to feel what being together made possible, in the voices of leaders they trusted.

The work

A three-part cinematic docuseries built on executive voices and the space itself, premiered at Pfizer’s global town hall and executive retreats.

What changed

The story moved from “mandatory return” to “opportunity to work differently,” and the first project grew into years of partnership.

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Color as a business
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The licensing years

How a feeling survives the trip from sketchbook to shelf.

Before strategy had a name in my work, it had a pattern. I built a namesake licensing brand from my own designs and took it across stationery, tech, home, tabletop and storage, at retailers from Apple and Nordstrom to Bloomingdale’s, Target, HomeGoods and West Elm.

Licensing is brand strategy at full speed. A collection has to survive buyers, factories, price points and a shopper’s three seconds of attention, and still feel like something. It taught me that feeling is not decoration. It is what sells.

$650K+at retail from a single storage collection with Enchanté.
1 of 3artists at DENY Designs selected for exclusive product on Target.com.
OrchidThe Adrianna collection with Split P, built from Pantone’s Radiant Orchid. The color still runs through my work.
Color + PatternMy book, 50 playful exercises for exploring pattern design. An Amazon Best Book of the Month.
Yellow floral pillows on a linen bench
Analucia, a painted floral in home textiles.
A smiling woman holding a teal floral pillow
With DENY Designs, carried at Target.com, Nordstrom.com and Kohls.com.
A sketchbook of collage, fabric swatches and painted color studies
Where every collection starts: collage, swatches and paint.
Retail and licensing partners

Apple · Nordstrom · Bloomingdale’s · Target · HomeGoods · West Elm · The Land of Nod · Barnes & Noble · Anna Griffin · DENY Designs · Uncommon · Enchanté · Split P · Q Squared · Post-it

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