Storytelling Through Experience: Immersive Events, Activations, and Theme Parks

Austin Johnston
CEO and Founder of AKJOHNSTON Group

Austin Johnston is an entrepreneur whose early experiences ignited a passion-led career into themed entertainment design and build. He has founded and still maintains: AKJOHNSTON, a celebrated brand agency for experiential activations; IMMERSED, a new venture for theme park and permanent design and build for diverse entertainment spaces; and ModDim, an accessible product line of modular theatrical backdrops.

Founded in 2008 without partners, investment or financing, the collective “AKJOHNSTON Group” has evolved from a technical production company to become an award-winning turnkey firm offering a limitless range of design, production and management capabilities. Housed in over 86,000 square feet across six strategically located facilities from our Anaheim Headquarters to our Los Angeles creative studio - and reaching to our Las Vegas, San Antonio and New York City Studios - we offer our clients local service with international reach.

Our Creative teams strategize, develop and design impactful campaigns. Our Production teams transform those bold visions into reality, developing logistical roadmaps and methods to execute the impossible! Our Fabrication department builds world-class experiences from the ground up and is one of the top-awarded fabricators in the industry.  

Today, Austin is regarded as one of the Top-10 Producers in the world; the fabrication arm has been awarded Top-50 in the world; the agency as a Top-100 firm in the world, and collectively, the Group has landed over 5,000 projects related to events and themed entertainment design.

We are at the intersection of where stories are told through sensory experiences, and Austin, with his team, are leading the industry now for almost seventeen years!