ShubinDonaldson (SD) is led by partners Russell Shubin, Robin Donaldson, and Mark Hershman; with offices in Culver City, Santa Barbara, and Orange County and a total staff of 60. We are informed by modernism, craft, and our culture of experimentation. We respond to each client and site (or space) through an investigative design process, mining the tension between real-world constraints and art to excavate each project’s unique opportunities. We have strong interests in materials research and fabrication that amplifies sensory experiences and it is germane to our work.

We are not only ethnically and gender diverse; we are multi-generational and have cultivated similarly diverse relationships with our vendors and sub-consultants. Though we are not an MBE or WBE, at SD, we have consciously cultivated diversity; In a profession historically dominated by men, our staff is currently 50% women. We are committed to taking affirmative action while being grounded in meritocracy as the ultimate criteria for advancement.