Strategy
Audience, positioning, leadership counsel, campaigns, and organizational change.
Communications leadership · Creative direction · Digital systems
From the first idea to the finished work.
I’m Christopher Dauphin. I lead communications strategy and bring ideas to life through writing, design, digital systems, and production.
Ideas
made real.
Strategy
Story
Design
Systems
Sound
made real.
15+years leading communications
Strategyaudience insight, messaging, and leadership
Craftwriting, design, video, and production
Systemsdigital tools and practical AI development
The through line
One creative mind.
A wide working range.
I’m most useful where the problem crosses boundaries—when the message, design, technology, process, and human reality all have to work together.
Story
Writing, editorial direction, video, podcasting, messaging, and persuasion.
Design
Brand identity, publications, graphics, digital experiences, and visual systems.
Systems
I design digital tools and workflows, using AI-assisted development where it helps. I define the problem, guide the build, and test the result.
Sound
Original composition, performance, production, and music licensing for film and television.
How I work
Ideas made useful.
I lead the work and understand the craft required to make it real.
Communications leadership
Finding the message and making it work everywhere
Audience strategy, editorial direction, campaigns, digital channels, and the creative work that carries a message through.
Brand and design
Creating identities and materials people recognize and trust
Logos, publications, campaign graphics, flyers, advertising, and consistent visual systems.
View design work →Digital products
Building practical tools when the work calls for them
I shape the experience, define how it should work, and use AI-assisted development to bring useful digital tools from concept through testing.
The writing / The book
Peel Your Bananas
Before Freezing Them.
I’m writing a book about the small, useful lessons we pick up through work and life. It’s part branding and marketing, part creative practice, and part figuring things out as we go. The essays below are part of that same conversation.
Read my writingYou just have to dare to begin.
From Stop dreaming and start planning
Life
Training Wheels
I recently reconnected with my Life of Riley bandmates, and we're planning to release new material this year. Revisiting that part of my life has been really good for…
Read the essay Content Creation
10 ways to create a ton of content from your blog
Are you letting your content off the hook? You’ve worked hard developing great content; you owe it to yourself to show it off. If you pour your heart and…
Read the essay Dreams
Stop dreaming and start planning
In the science fiction disaster film Armageddon by Michael Bay, a gigantic asteroid, "the size of Texas," is on a collision course with Earth. NASA engineers decide the best…
Read the essay Original music · Licensing
Film / Television / CampaignsMusic made to meet the moment.
Alongside my career in communications, I’ve spent more than 20 years as a professional musician and composer. My music has been licensed for film and television, including reality shows such as RuPaul’s Drag Race and films on Netflix such as A Line of Fire, which reached No. 4 on Netflix’s U.S. Top 10 movies list. I compose, perform, and produce original music available for licensing.
Writing and creative work
Creativity is not a department.
Sometimes an idea becomes an article. Sometimes it becomes a campaign, a conversation, or a piece of music. I’m drawn to work that leaves people with something they can use or feel.
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