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DE-YAN

Creative & Production
Open roles
0
Founded
2014
Employees
51-200
Offices
5

About DE-YAN

DE-YAN is a global brand experience studio combining creative strategy, spatial design, creative technology, motion and live production. Founded in New York in 2014, it develops experiences that connect physical environments with digital content and interaction. Its work spans luxury, fashion, technology, sports, gaming, beauty and entertainment, with a geographic presence across North America, Latin America and Europe.

The studio brings strategy, conceptual design, engineering, motion graphics and physical construction into an integrated production model. Projects can extend from audience research, brand positioning and campaign ideas through spatial concepts, custom software, fabrication and on-site execution. This approach supports both temporary activations and longer-lived retail environments, allowing the studio to carry a concept through its visual, interactive and physical components.

Experiences across spaces and screens

DE-YAN designs flagship environments, pop-up stores, interactive pavilions, stages and brand worlds. Its creative technology work includes sensor-driven installations, augmented and virtual reality, spatial computing and real-time interaction. Motion and post-production capabilities encompass 2D and 3D animation, live-action film, sound design, broadcast opening sequences and LED visuals for live events.

Its portfolio illustrates the range of these disciplines. For Meta Reality Labs, DE-YAN has developed immersive retail environments and interactive event spaces. Snap x Vogue Cannes brought augmented reality and digital couture into an exhibition setting, while YouTube Brandcast combined mainstage spatial design, motion identity and creative technology installations.

The studio’s work also reaches beyond event production into brand development and digital platforms. Its contribution to Lemme included naming, packaging, bottle design, visual identity, web design and launch strategy. For CFDA RUNWAY360, it developed a digital ecosystem and immersive virtual platform for presenting American fashion collections. Retail projects include Big Face Coffee’s Miami flagship and an experiential concept for Ferragamo’s SoHo flagship. Together, these projects reflect a practice that connects brand identity, moving images, interactive systems and built environments.

More about DE-YAN

Leadership

  • Founder Dejan Jovanovic serves as Chief Executive Officer and Creative Director.
  • Jason Kreher joined as Chief Creative Officer in 2025, following roles at Wieden+Kennedy and Maximum Effort.
  • Jonathan Akwue became the studio’s first President in September 2026, following leadership roles at Translation and Publicis Groupe.

Proprietary measurement tools

  • Hyperion is an in-house platform for real-time behavioral measurement, tracking audience engagement and spatial sentiment.
  • ERIC, the Experiential Revenue Impact Calculator, became the first experiential marketing ROI methodology certified by the Marketing Accountability Standards Board in May 2026, according to the report.

Industry recognition

DE-YAN received Gold for Experiential Agency of the Year at the Ad Age Small Agency Awards in July 2026.

Notable credits

11 credits
  • FIFA World Cup Halftime Show (2026)
  • PUMA Rolling Nations (2026)
  • Lemme brand creation
  • Meta Reality Labs retail and event spaces
  • Snap x Vogue Cannes: Redefining the Body
  • YouTube Brandcast
  • Big Face Coffee Miami flagship
  • CFDA RUNWAY360
  • Ferragamo SoHo flagship
  • Samsung YOUniverse
  • Dior x Guggenheim

Offices

Where DE-YAN is based

5 locations
  • New York office

    Headquarters
    224 Centre Street, Suite 3E, New York, NY 10013, United StatesNew York, United States

    Global headquarters; the report also identifies a sixth-floor Studio Playground at the same address.

  • São Paulo office

    São Paulo, Brazil

    Latin America studio serving South American markets.

  • Toronto office

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Direct Canadian studio serving Canadian and North American accounts.

  • Belgrade office

    Palmotićeva 9, 11000 Belgrade (Stari Grad), SerbiaBelgrade, Serbia

    European engineering and production hub, operated through DE-YAN d.o.o. Beograd as part of the unified DE-YAN studio network.

  • Los Angeles office

    Los Angeles, California, United States

    West Coast operating branch serving entertainment, gaming and technology clients.

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