Mike Abbink

Mike Abbink is the Executive Creative Director of the IBM Brand Experience and Design Team. Abbink’s design career began in 1996 as a designer at MetaDesign in San Francisco and has since continued an extensive career as a Creative Director for the Museum of Modern Art, Wolff Olins, Saffron Consultants, Method (also co-founder), and as a Design Director at Apple Computer. In addition to a career as a graphic designer, Mike has also created robust and award-winning typefaces such as FF Kievit, FF Milo, GE Inspira, Brando Serif and Sans, and most recently, IBM Plex®. In addition, Mike continues to design and collaborate in typeface design with Bold Monday.