Unreal is a multidisciplinary, award-winning, creative communication studio founded in 2006 and based out of New Orleans. The studio was born from the intuition that clean, effective design facilitates the smooth flow of information, enlivens social discourse and rips through the clutter. Unreal gets tangible results for our clients while at the same time staying small, lean and efficient.

Creative director and founder Rick Dobbs was previously art director at MGM-MIRAGE’s Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, and art director at Xdesign, Inc. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Rick has over 20 years of award-winning advertising and design experience within in-house and agency environments.

Although winning awards is not what it’s all about, this standard is oftentimes how success is gauged in our industry. Unreal is thankful to have garnered multiple Addy awards on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, in Baton Rouge and here in New Orleans including back-to-back People’s Choice Awards for print. Our work has also been featured by international packaging design site TheDieline.com; the beer packaging design site OhBeautifulBeer.com; Print Magazine’s 2010, 2011 and 2014 Regional Design Annuals; Communication Arts 2015 Typography Annual; and in 3 of Rockport Publishing’s LogoLounge books. Rick has also judged several student and professional Addy Awards across the Gulf South region over the years.