PITCHBLACKNIGHT
Fluxus · Artist · Polymath
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Fluxus · Artist · Polymath
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PITCHBLACKNIGHT
PITCHBLACKNIGHT — Original Tracks
Remix the remix. I take what's already been reimagined and push it further — layering remix on remix until the original DNA is just a ghost signal inside something entirely new.
I am a phonetic mimic — I can absorb and reproduce any sound I hear after a single exposure. Human voices, animal sounds, mechanical textures, accents, dialects. What that means for you: a voice performer who doesn't need 40 takes to find the right read. I find it in one. Narration, character work, documentary, meditation guides, audiobooks, commercials, short films, and brand voice exploration. If you need it voiced, I can voice it — and I'll sound like exactly what the moment needs.
Motion that breathes. The moment we align on what you need, I can see the finished piece — and from that vision I build backward into the method. Motion graphics, animated loops, GIF art, title sequences, abstract visual experiments, and projection mapping. I lean toward organic, textured work with genuine weight — the kind of motion that makes a viewer feel something without knowing why. No cookie-cutter presets. Everything built with intention, from a clear picture of where it ends up.
I don't just design websites — I build entire visual worlds and then code them into existence. Concept, identity, design, and build all come from one mind, which means nothing gets lost in translation between "what it should feel like" and "what actually ships." Artist sites, portfolio sites, brand microsites, landing pages, and fully custom experiences. No templates, no themes. Every site I build looks like it was made specifically for the person it represents — because it was. 19+ years of UI/UX and design systems means it's also built to last.
I collect discarded personal documents from estate sales of the recently deceased — love letters, receipts, photographs, journals — and transform them into multi-panel fine art series that bear the names of the people they belonged to. The work is about memory, preservation, and the radical act of saying: this person mattered. Each series is unique, archival, and unrepeatable. Commissions are also available — bring me your material, your story, your artifacts. I'll make something that honors it.
I have hyperphantasia — an inner visual world so vivid and detailed it operates as a parallel reality. That's not a metaphor. Before a single pixel is placed, I can already see the finished piece. What that produces: digital work with conceptual depth and visual precision that most tools never reach. Generative art, abstract digital works, album art, brand art, digital prints, and visual identity. If you need something that doesn't look like anything else out there, this is where you start.
19+ years spanning brand, product, UI/UX, and enterprise design systems — trusted by Google, GE Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Herman Miller, Whirlpool, and Gartner. I work from first principles: meaning, form, rhythm, narrative. Then I translate that into cohesive direction across design, motion, interaction, and presentation. Art direction, design systems, CX audits, team leadership (10–12), visual identity, and product experience. I'm especially effective at finding the friction, the story gaps, and the quiet reasons customers leave — then laying out a clear, buildable path to fix them. Available for contract and freelance engagements now.
Every medium is my medium. Digital, physical, interpretive, sonic — the boundaries between them are the first thing I dissolve.
My name is Mikel Rosenthal. I go by PBK — short for PitchBlacKnight. I live in Chicago Heights with my husband Brandon and our black cat Hexadecimal — HEX — a rescue who showed up three Halloweens ago and never left.
I am a polymath. My music is first-take improv — one pass, live mastered, the imperfection is the craft. My client work is the opposite: I envision the finished result almost immediately, we clarify it together, I map the path, and I execute until it's exactly right. Every client I have ever worked with has been completely satisfied. I am proud of that record.
I have hyper-fantasia: an inner world so vivid and texturally rich it operates as a parallel reality. I am a phonetic mimic who can absorb and reproduce accents, dialects, animal sounds, and mechanical textures after a single exposure. I pick up languages with unnerving speed — not just words but the music of how they're spoken.
I spent 30 years managing chronic pain. Theater of the Mind changed that. What I build now comes from the other side of that door.
Art is not separate from life. Work is not separate from art. Every output — a website, a song, a space, a word — is the same gesture, refracted differently.
Polymath is not a resume word. It's a condition. Forty-five years spent refusing to specialize means every discipline informs every other. The edges blur. That's the point.
Every piece of work enters the world with intention. If it doesn't serve something larger — environmentally, socially, spiritually — it doesn't leave the studio.
I lead teams to create unmistakable visual worlds — then systematize them so they scale fast, stay consistent, and ship beautifully. Trusted by Google, GE Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Herman Miller, Whirlpool, and Gartner. My practice is rooted in a Fluxus mindset: interdisciplinary, concept-forward, and execution-complete. I work from first principles, then translate that into cohesive direction across design, motion, interaction, writing, and presentation.
