Jonathan Bobrow

Jonathan Bobrow is an award winning designer and technologist at the forefront of digital interfaces and hands-on play. He’s an alumnus of the MIT Media Lab Playful Systems group and UCLA Design | Media Arts, CEO and Founder of Move38, a new kind of game company. Move38 builds tools for creativity such as Blinks, the world's first open source smart-tabletop game system. Jonathan has successfully Kickstarted six products, raising over $500K on the platform, he is an avid maker, outdoors lover, air-guitar veteran, and recently TEDx thought leader on how play shapes the way we think.

Prior to founding Move38, Jonathan spent years designing interactive museum installations for institutions such as Museum of Science and Industry, Smithsonian, Tenement Museum, and Brooklyn Historical Society.

Education

• Master of Science (MS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014 — 2016)
• BA University of California, Los Angeles (2003 — 2008)

Companies

• Adjunct Professor New York University (2021)
• Founder & CEO Move38, Inc. (2016)
• NYC Fellow Startup Leadership Program (2018 — 2019)
• Research Assistant MIT Media Lab (2014 — 2016)
• Founder BitWise Design (2013 — 2014)
• Code Alchemist Potion (2011 — 2014)
• Designer, Media Artist Jonathan Bobrow Design (Freelance) (2008 — 2013)
• Programmer Analyst II USC Institute for Creative Technologies (2009 — 2011)
• Programmer Analyst I USC Institute for Creative Technologies (2009 — 2009)