Hi, I'm Angus McBryde.

I’m a graphic designer and performing arts marketer, a lifelong cyclist and compulsive tech tinkerer, and occasionally a broadcaster and musician from Dunedin, New Zealand. I currently live in Manchester, UK with my wife Nadia and our two daughters.

I graduated from the University of Otago in 2010 with a Bachelor of Consumer and Applied Science in Interdisciplinary Design Studies. Since the beginning of my career, I've believed that a designer's style should serve the project, not the other way around. After starting out agency-side, I moved into marketing, communications and design roles across the performing arts and events sector.

My experience includes senior marketing & communications, design and logistics roles with New Zealand International Science Festival, Auckland Arts Festival, and Whānau Marama: New Zealand International Film Festival.

I am currently Head of Marketing & Communications at Manchester music venue and national promoter Band on the Wall, where I’ve led campaigns for artists including Femi Kuti, Joan as Police Woman, Lady Blackbird, DakhaBrakha, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and many others.

From 2018 to 2021, I was a founding board member and Design & Marketing Manager of award-winning theatre company Arcade. Around the same time, I co-hosted the History Bonanza on Radio One 91FM with Alex D. Wilson.

Between 2015 and 2017, I travelled extensively through South-East Asia, India, North Africa, Europe, the UK and the United States, including two solo cycle tours through The Netherlands and France, and hitchhiking trips around Ireland and Romania. Throughout those travels, I stayed almost exclusively with locals through Couchsurfing and Warm Showers, an experience that shaped the way I think about people, hospitality and community. A bike has always been my vehicle of choice.

I've revisited music throughout different stages of my life. Most recently, I’ve played bass guitar in indie-folk quintet The Broken Heartbreakers and noise-pop quartet Asta Rangu, and released a solo record, Of No Particular Significance, in 2017.

I’ve been tinkering with computers and technology since the days of Limewire and No-CD cracks, forever pulling apart new tools and technologies to see what they can do. That curiosity has led me toward Web3 and decentralised technology, which I see as a route to rethinking and reclaiming ownership, community and power in an increasingly monopolised digital world.

Wanna talk? Email me!