Geoff Puckett
President / Founder


Geoff is a veteran creative producer who has worked professionally in the theatrical and media industries since 1977. Originally from San Diego, Geoff began his career collaborating with the Ice Capades, designing one of the world's first laser-based ice surface projection systems. Throughout most of the 1980's he designed, built and creatively programmed laser and lighting visual effects together with multimedia companies to stage massive corporate theatrical events for clients such as IBM, Coca-Cola, Ford and NBC Television. He attended San Diego State University and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Geoff joined Walt Disney Imagineering in 1988, developing stories, media sequences, stage designs, illusions and visual effect systems for dozens of Disney theme parks attractions such as Disneyland-Paris' 'Big Thunder Mountain', 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Phantom Manor'. Geoff was key to media-intensive show designs for 'Spaceship Earth' and 'Universe of Energy' at EPCOT Center as well as show concepts for the Tokyo DisneySea theme park in Japan. In 1997 Geoff created projection effects for the Tony®-award winning Broadway musical, 'The Lion King'. In 1998, Geoff founded EffectDesign, Inc., whose most widely experienced project was New York City's Times Square 2000 millennium celebration. As Creative Producer and Writer, Geoff was responsible for the event's overall concept design and creative direction. In 2006 the EffectDesign studios expanded into research & development facilities formerly occupied by Industrial Light + Magic (ILM). Through Geoff’'s guidance EffectDesign has conceived and produced projects for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Science Fiction Museum, Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, Walt Disney Imagineering, Universal Studios Hollywood and others. Gallery 9 of San Francisco’s Walt Disney Family Museum showcases two unique EffectDesign creations: a 360-degree spherical motion picture display innovatively presenting Walt’s colorfully expansive imagination, and the most detailed scale model of Disneyland ever made – for which Geoff served as concept designer and art director. Geoff is a member of the Association of Science and Technology Centers, Illumination Engineering Society of North America and Visual Effect Society. See a detailed career chronology here. (CLICK)