Sean Klassen
A Résumé Of Sorts

Contact

720.878.2567

info (at) seanklassen.com

Hi. My name is Sean. Currently, I am employed as an Art Director at Factory Design Labs in Denver, CO. I feel extremely lucky to be able to spend my days designing, as it is my number three dream job behind pro hockey player and rockstar... in that order. That being said, I actually studied sociology in school. I got started with all of this by making websites, flyers and record layouts for friends' punk rock bands and record labels. I own a home in the Baker District of Denver, love my friends and family, love music (I've played/play in a variety of local and touring bands as a guitarist, drummer, bassist and singer), still enjoy playing hockey when I can and generally spend my time trying to be awesome.

Experience

Art Director

Factory Design Labs

March 2006 to Present

  • Concepting, art direction and design for various interactive and video projects
  • Information architecture for select projects including large scale social networking sites
  • Front end programming for select projects including CSS, Javascript and HTML
  • Creative project management, budgeting, planning and presentations for all projects

Freelance Art Direction/Design

Seanklassen.com

January 2003 to Present

  • Concepting, art direction and design for various interactive, print and identity projects
  • Information architecture for select projects
  • Programming for select projects including CSS, Javascript, HTML and PHP
  • Project management, budgeting, planning and presentations for all projects

User Interface Designer

Wall Street On Demand

October 2004 to March 2006

  • Web application interface design for complex financial systems
  • Mapping user flows, creating wireframes and all information architecture of projects
  • Headed up a team with coworker to hire two entry level designers

Intern/Jr. Designer

Juxt Interactive

April 2004 to September 2004

  • Design and Flash production for award winning sites
  • Creation and maintenance of style guides, site architectures, etc.
  • Translated design comps into HTML and Flash pages.

Selected Clients

Airwalk
Audi of America
Best Buy
Boost Mobile
Brine
Charles Schwab
Coca-Cola
Copper Mountain
Disney
Goldman Sachs
Happy Madison Productions
Kawasaki
Paramount Pictures
Rawlings
Samuel Adams
Scarpa
Sony Pictures
Universal Pictures
Winter Park

Recognition

Smashing Magazine
Showcase of BIG Typography - 2nd Edition / 2008

The Denver 50
Factory Design Labs Corporate Identity / Art Director / 2007

HOW International Design Annual 2006
Boost Mobile Pro of Surf Website / Designer / 2006

STEP Best of Web Design 2005
Nestea Cool Website / Designer and Developer / 2005

Orange County Ad Club 2005
Nestea Cool Website / Designer and Developer / 2005

Thanks to Newstoday, k10k, Lounge72, Design Melt Down, CSS Mania, CSS Vault, CSS Import, CSS Remix, Webcreme, Best Web Gallery and anyone else I may have forgot for linking to some of my projects.