Sean Gallagher

Direct / Design / Illustrate / Create

New York, NY, USA
Creative Direction, Visual Design, Illustration, and Product Design focused on making useful and meaningful works.

Work Experience

A&E Networks

Design Director / Senior Art Director

Corporate brand strategy and creative development. Parent company identity, and supporting creative for all departments/shows/networks as needed, domestic and International. Managing and building teams, elevating creative, hands on with deliverables. Print, motion, digital, Ui/Ux, strategy et al.

November 2015 - New York, United States

MXM

Creative Director - New Business

Creative Direction and conceptual development for an RFP to FX Networks.
Long hours and short timelines ended in "One of the best looking things we have ever sent out", and "You elevated our brand."
With over 100 pages, with the highest level of attention to detail, it was a rock solid and inventive take social and digital strategy for FX.
October 2015 - October 2015 New York, United States

Major League Soccer

Creative Director - New Business

COPA Centenario New Business Pitch. Featuring over 100 printed pages as a beautiful 9" x 16" spiral bound book to accompany the beautiful 16x9 interactive slides.

Working with MLS internal SUM (soccer united marketing) agency day and night with James Ruth, head of marketing and Thibault Chevillard, Creative Director.

We overcame insurmountable odds to produce the winning business pitch at an incredible scale. In spite of the timelines and deliverables it was a completely positive, creatively driven and stress free, wonderful time.

Word on the street is "It's beautiful, and you truly elevated our brand." or as James put it "I almost got up and hugged you."
September 2015 - October 2015 New York, United States

Object

Creative Lead / Partner

I take out the trash.
I run the brand and all facets of product design and procurement.
A new venture to establish a better cultural dialog around Toys.
March 2013 - Present New York, New York, United States

Creative Realities

Creative Director

I worked as a Creative Director and Lead Designer in a freelance position, until 2012 when I became executive CD under Paul Price. Small shop and you pulled your weight. We created UX based products and digital creative mostly for luxury retail brands and new Experiential Conceptual Design exploration.
October 2010 - March 2013 New York, New York, United States

Stack Exchange

Art Director / Designer

Responsible for all marketing and communication design, general brand and/or site direction and creation, and a unique level of involvement with the community at large in each network during the creative processes.

Helped grow the Gaming site into one of the top 3 most popular sites in the network.
Skyrim vs Modern Warfare 3 release promo: High levels of community praise and site traffic accolades
Hat Dash Gaming site takeover: Massive user fandom fun, lots of hat illustration and gamification done right.
The best looking and most fun staff photo bio page ever made, circa 2012.
Creative insight to grow beyond software developer only audiences into a greater global audience UX and UI.
September 2011 - September 2012 New York, New York, United States

DLUX

Creative Lead / Partner

Working with tons of agencies from Creative team build and deploy for Mr Youth, to in house services for Laird and partners, to a rack of creative execution for Epiphany Media for brands like Nike, Cohiba, Tanqueray. I continued to push interactive and social media platform boundaries ultimately settling in at CRI for a while.
September 2010 - October 2012 New York, New York, United States

LTD +

Art Director / Designer

Art Direction and all visual design. New client concept work development and client recruitment. Designed best brand usage of Twitter with Live event onsite interaction in February 2009 (etnies). My implementation on social media for brand engagement was MILES ahead of others. Good times working out of the SoHo Etnies brand space with Alex Corporan.
November 2008 - October 2009 New York, New York, United States

Languages

Japanese (Beginner),

Skills

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Art Direction, Casting, Creative Direction, CSS, Curation, Editorial Content, Hand Drawing, HTML, Illustration, Jquery, Mold Making, Packaging Design, Pen And Ink, Photography, PHP, Print Design, Product Design, Sculpture, Trend Forecast, WordPress,