Dean Paul De Leon is a Southern California native. He graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2005 with a degree in Animation and Visual Effects. Following that, Dean Paul worked on photography, videography, marketing, and design at the record label Droid Recordings. Over the years he's done a lot of traveling for the label with artists to various cities around the globe. While still working at Droid Behavior, he started working at AstraPacific Outdoor as a creative director working on branding, marketing, advertising and multimedia design out of the Los Angeles and New York offices. While there he worked with big companies such as NBC, CBS, Disney, Netflix, Fox, Target, Adidas, Ubisoft, Universal, and Amazon. He worked at AstraPacific for seven years in the Outdoor advertising company. Since then he's worked with multiple record labels, booking agencies, and consumer companies on design, photography, graphic design, web development, marketing, branding, advertising, video editing, and conceptual design.

 

Dean Paul’s photography has been published in Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, DTLA book, Red Bull Radio, Resident Adviser, MIXMAG , Thump (Vice) ,

LA Holly Magazine, Trax Mag, and Sound Space.