Founder Profile
Justin Cooper
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Justin Cooper possessed an incredibly rigorous, deeply aesthetic background in advanced digital product design, complex creative community management, and mass-market digital retail logistics. Operating as a fiercely capable creative executive who deeply understood the fundamental needs of the independent art community, this intensely visual and commercial foundation provided the exact strategic leverage required to successfully pioneer the incredibly massive Society6 platform.
Founding Story
Justin Cooper is a fiercely visionary American digital designer, highly strategic e-commerce architect, and the profoundly influential co-founder fundamentally responsible for architecting the highly iconic Society6 independent art marketplace. Operating as an incredibly talented creative director in Los Angeles alongside Justin Brotherton and Lucas Kelly, Cooper aggressively recognized the massive, incredibly frustrating barrier to entry that independent illustrators and designers faced when attempting to physically manufacture and sell their artwork. In 2009, the trio relentlessly launched Society6. By fiercely engineering a massive print-on-demand platform that seamlessly allowed artists to upload digital files and instantly sell them as high-quality consumer goods—from art prints to home decor—his absolutely rigorous strategic leadership completely revolutionized the online creator economy. His massive creative execution permanently established the multi-million dollar Society6 brand.