Near Future Laboratory is Julian Bleecker's design-led creative studio based in 🛹 Venice Beach 🏖️ California. It is a strategically-minded innovation practice that brings imagination back into rich, meaningful, creative collaboration with organizations and teams looking to create innovative products & services that will furnish more habitable futures.

His goal is to prepare you to win by helping you manage, adapt, and leverage the immediate implications of emerging technologies.

He has developed an approach and methodology to achieve this goal, and has 20+ years experience developing and implemening this approach across a range of commercial, private, public & non-profit domains.

He's collaborated with some of the world's most creative & forward-thinking strategy, arts, venture, product, brand, marketing, design & engineering teams working at the vanguard of the new, the imminent, and the not yet possible domains of human endeavors. He's created for them evocative artifacts functional and speculative prototypes to help relate to and make sense of their strategic plans.

He's given keynotes globally and workshops far and wide about Design Fiction.

He's even brought his expertise with imagining possible futures to help out with a $100MM Hollywood film production.

The Manual of Design Fiction is an expansive and illustrative deep-dive into Near Future Laboratory's practice. It has sold thousands and thousands of copies all around the world, describing the pragmatics ways in which storytelling, vision, and imagination can be used to help strategize for the near future. This might just be a thing.

Near Future Laboratory has done all of this because even the most audacious and creative Fortune 50 organizations need a little help to unlock their greatness.

Are you ready to learn more?

Here's your next step: Let's talk.