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MICHAEL LEJEUNE, Creative Director, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Michael Lejeune builds brands and the creative teams that support them. His work marries an engaging voice with mind-catching visual design to elevate ideas, issues, services and products.
Michael is currently Creative Director for Metro (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority). Metro’s 20-person Design Studio creates all things visual for the nation’s third-largest transit agency, including advertising, wayfinding and environmental graphics, timetables, maps, fare media and customer information, bus and rail fleet design, websites and merchandising.
Metro's design work received some 60 awards since 2002, including honors from the American Public Transit Association (APTA), Print, STEP Inside Design and HOW magazines, and is included in the national archives of AIGA. In 2006, APTA named Metro the nation's Outstanding Transportation System, and the Design Studio was profiled in the September/October 2006 issue of Communication Arts and in both the February 2007 and September 2009 issue of Fast Company. In 2008, Metro received a ReBrand 100 Best Of award.