Michael Bustin
Material Brand Critic™ | Founder of Material AF™ | Powered by The Bustinator™ | Helping Material Manufacturers Torch the Beige + Build Unforgettable Brand & Material Experiences.
- Role
- Founder at Material Af
- Location
- Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Michael Bustin
Exit 11 original. Builder by nature. Fear Buster by choice. I’m Michael Bustin…
Experience
Founder
Jul 2025 — Present · Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, US
Material AF™ is a bold content platform and brand audit engine built to call it like it is and raise the bar on how materials are experienced, shared, and remembered.From strategy to showcase, we audit the full material experience and rate it using the AF Five Scale™ to help your brand get noticed, felt, and remembered.But that’s just the surface.We help material brands turn insight into impact. We craft unforgettable brand & material experiences, build iconic identities, and collaborate with design minds to turn standout materials into architectural products that don’t play safe. Same Ole - Same Ole is history and Me-Too doesn’t cut it any more. This is Material AF. No Beige. No Boring.Think your material experience is the sh*t? Prove it. Send it our way. We’ll audit it, rate it, and say it straight. Flat experiences get called out. Iconic experiences get crowned.
Education
Clarkson University
Bachelor of Science - BS
State University of New York College at Potsdam
Bachelor of Science - BS
Skills
- Leadership
- Social Media
- Project Management
- Marketing Strategy
- Public Relations
- Business Strategy
- Business Development
- Product Development
- Sales
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
- Design Thinking
- Start-Ups
- Product Marketing
- Manufacturing
- Networking
- Product Design
- Brand Development
- Email Marketing
- Lead Generation
- Sales Management
- B2b
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