Established in 2009, Fashion4Ward Interactive is a revolutionary interactive agency dedicated to pushing the creative boundaries of fashion and technology to deliver high impact interactive marketing solutions. With an exceptional focus on diversifying style within the XBOX 360 Avatar Marketplace, Fashion4Ward offers an array of game design and development services including interactive design, game development, marketing solutions, ecommerce, motion graphics, 3D design, rich media, video production and corporate identity.
Philanthropy also plays a large role in the company as Fashion4Ward is committed to using it’s strong business relationships to build awareness in digital communities to ever important social issues.
From its main offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, Co- Founders Ced Funches, and Tony Chiodo lead a international team based in both the United States and Austria. For more information, please visit http://fashion4interactive.com or call +1.651.755.5554.
Ced Funches / Creative Director/ Founder/ CMO
Ced Funches has enjoyed a successful design career spanning well over a decade. He has been recognized as a highly creative design professional and continues to innovate and create distinctive work for the world's biggest brands.
Prior to launching Fashion4Ward, Ced acted as Director of Creative Marketing for a private videogame company Destineer Games. Known as a "big idea" leader, Ced recently designed the national campaign for the Stoked Big Air Edition game, bringing together corporate giants like Sprint, USSA, NBC Sports, and Microsoft. He has also negotiated multiple licensed deals including a large interactive deal with cereal super giant, General Mills.
Before that, Ced was the Art Director for the Minnesota Timberwolves. That forum allowed him to pursue his love of graphic and industrial design, overseeing all web, print, and event production elements as well as designing the franchise's monthly magazine. During that time, Ced has worked with NBA athletes, action-sports stars and celebrity personalities. A true professional, Ced is able to bring multiple marketing solutions to brands around the world.
Tony Chiodo / Founder/ VP of Product Development
Peter Anthony Chiodo (“Tony”) is an award winning, Director of Product Development and Producer with nearly 20 years in the games industry. He has extensive experience managing internal and external development teams, world-wide, on behalf of ElectroBrain Corporation, GT Interactive, Microsoft, and Destineer Games.
Individually produced titles have captured the attention of venture capital firms yielding significant capital investment in the companies for whom he has worked. Most recently, he Produced and Co-Designed the critically acclaimed Stoked freestyle snowboarding franchise, the million unit selling Summer Sports / Summer Sports Party, and "serious games" training tools for the United States Marine Corps and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
As a Director of Product Development, Tony has created relationships and negotiated agreements with software developers, intellectual property licensing agents, Olympic champions, and professional athletes. He has developed and pitched product concepts to the likes of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Beachbody, General Mills, Steven Spielberg, Mark Hamill, and other high-caliber individuals and organizations.
Fashion4Ward started as a side-project for Ced and Tony in 2009 by connecting socially responsible brands to larger digital communities. With an exceptional business model, Fashion4Ward Interactive began to grow the overall objective. As the digital community grew, so did the demand for companies to reach outside their "comfortable" rules of marketing. Enter Fashion4Ward Interactive. A full service branding and social networking company with roots deep in the urban community.
Fashion4Ward connects brands to a larger digital community by revolutionizing the way brands present their products, visions, and social causes.
Fashion4Ward Interactive is increasingly focused on helping people. Our founders are from modest beginnings and appreaciate the responsibility to give back. We are truly here to make a difference. Every year, We donate a percentage of our profits to worldwide initiatives that are important to us as well as the brands we represent. Join our team. Work with our brands. Change the World.