we are a

venture-based studio & community-based store

building new futures.

As we accelerate into the new year, I am thrilled to share some of the magic that we’ve been brewing at Epic Decade. The last seven-months have been an inspired marathon. We have been immersed in a series of catalytic milestones from restructuring into an ecosystem of businesses to prototyping extraordinary new ventures to acquiring once in a lifetime real estate to codifying the methods to our (successful) madness. 

We are in the time travel business.

The Curiosity Store was purchased, cleaned out, stripped down to a shell, designed, and rebuilt from floors to walls to a staged experience journey, and opened to the public in 6-months. We compressed what can ordinarily be a 12-month program into half the time. This is only possible because we use the processes of design to invent, incubate, accelerate, and fabricate new prototype futures.

We have acquired the “one-room schoolhouse” on the island of Jamestown and converted it into the Curiosity Store – a public anchor of our vision, acting as an experience laboratory incubated as a bookstore, wine bar, design studio, and pop-up courtyard.  It’s a lobby into radical curiosity.  

The site converges the powerful art of storytelling to compel new narratives, the joy of gathering to catalyze social cohesion, the rigor of systems thinking to redesign everything, and our history as a studio working with Apple Stores to reimagine the future of retail.

We are a Futures Build Lab.

Epic Decade re-organizes into a series of Practice Labs.

In 2021 we reached a major milestone: our decade anniversary!

After leading more than 50 projects with nearly 40 clients, sponsors, and partners across sectors, geographies, and timescales; hosting nearly 3,000 VIP guests within our Ideas Salons and producing more than 100 intellectual property assets – we are reorganizing our design firm to leverage our expertise across five areas of impact.

As we deepen and expand our scope of impact in 2022, Epic Decade is proud to host extraordinary talent. We are an intimate interdisciplinary team, working through a Navy SEAL force multiplier framework of leadership. We are pleased to announce the promotions and arrivals of three featured team members: 

Amanda
Rock

becomes VP of Platforms

an eight-year veteran of the business wearing diverse hats from Design Strategist to Operational Development, Amanda leads all overarching systems design for our transformation goals whether we are transforming our clients or ourselves, previously she co-founded a brand strategy design firm and  spent 10 years as a biologist where she led research and testing teams across the US and Asia  

Daria
Nikolaeva

becomes a Senior Designer

a three-year immersive collaborator, Daria joins us as a full-time team member, an inspired design maker, and thinker who works across all forms of storytelling from digital media to brand building to product development, her keen sense of visual medium comes from her roots as a designer exhibiting in galleries globally, she previously worked at MIT and had taught design courses at Boston University 

Grace
Bevilacqua

arrival as a Design Strategist 

a new team member to our growing studio, Grace joins after spending more than 10-years in the field of design, communications, marketing, and strategic brand storytelling, in her new role we will draw upon her original foundations in anthropology, previously Grace led a variety of experience design initiatives reimagining the future of CVS Health