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Stephen Gates

Basic Info

Senior Creative Director / Designer / Blogger
StephenGates.com
Location: New York, NY, USA
URL: http://www.stephengates.com
Twitter: @sdgates

Creative Fields

Honors and Awards

Partial list includes:

Communication Arts - 2 Site of the Week awards and Design Interact interview

Cannes Cyber Lions - 1 award

CLIO Awards - Best self-promotional web site - tm-interactive.com

Webby Awards - 2 finalists and 2 honorees

ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Pioneer Award (1 of 7 awarded worldwide)

ADDY Awards - 29 local, regional and national awards including the first campaign to ever win Best Integrated Campaign and Best of Show Regional with no TV in the campaign.

WebAwards - 20 awards

Adobe Site of the Day - 6 awards

New York Festivals - 3 awards

American Design Awards - 9 awards

My blog is a 2008 Webby Awards Honoree for Best Personal Site, HOW Magazine Top 10 site and is listed on the AdAge Magazine Power 150.

About Me

I’ve been in the advertising business almost my whole life. I am a designer and second generation creative director and an hour from now I will probably be locked away in my studio slowly going blind working on a new design or my blog. That has to be love or insanity – since it is advertising it is probably a bit of both.

Specialties:
• Extensive experience leading and inspiring award winning creative teams through all steps of the creative process.

• Proven ability to bring together and lead online and offline creative teams to create cross channel global integrated advertising concepts.

• Proven ability to grow existing accounts and win high profile new business with strong client relationships and ideas that balance a creative expression with a results oriented commercial responsibility.