06/02/2026
Meet the incredible Mike Hester, Principal and Creative Director of Pavement, an award-winning San Francisco Bay Area branding and packaging studio he founded in 2014.
With a background in fine arts, Mike has built Pavement into a studio that specializes in brand systems and packaging for consumer goods that live on shelves, working with everyone from scrappy startups to household names like Williams Sonoma, Dollar Shave Club, Heirloom Coffee Roasters, and Peet's. It's the kind of work, as Mike puts it, where strategy and art actually talk to each other.
Having been recognized by Communication Arts, Graphis, and Dieline, Pavement is one of the most awarded branding studios of the last decade.
We're so glad Mike found his spot at CENTRL, and even happier to have him as part of our community.