Bert Snow is a designer with broad perspective that includes game design, graphic and interface design, interactive music, and sculpture. In 1993 he founded Virtual Music, a company that helped invent the music-game genre that now includes hits like Guitar Hero. At Virtual Music, Bert designed several groundbreaking music-gaming titles for the PC and Playstation including Quest for Fame (starring Aerosmith) and Stolen Song (published by Sony in Japan), and an Aerosmith arcade game for Namco Ltd. Virtual Music was acquired by Japanese game company Namco in 2000. At Muzzy Lane, Bert has designed the American Dynasties role-playing game working with documentary film-makers Center for New American Media, the ReFresh prototype of a game about modern marketing, and the company’s first title, Making History, the Calm & the Storm Bert’s game designs have won awards including the League for Innovation Best New Product Award (Making History), Invision Awards Silver Medal for Best Overall Game Design (Quest for Fame) and the E3 Leonardo daVinci Award for product design (Quest for Fame and Virtual Guitar)

Bert also recieved a platinum record for his interactive-design work on the Aerosmith album Nine Lives, and helped design the online interactive-music website MusicPlayground for Namco. He has designed interactive exhibits for The New York Hall of Science and the Children’s Museum, and has taught as a visiting artist at Harvard University. Bert has a BA with highest honors in art from Williams College.