Design Project Management

HUGH SANSOM Motion graphics, post production for film, broadcast, interactive. Clients: NOW on PBS,

The Bill Moyers Journal, Showtime, CBS, ABC, TruTV, National Geographic, IBM, New

Line, Sony, Hill Holiday, Ogilvy, Merck. Dual-national: US, UK. Member: AIGA, BDA, IFP.

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EXPERIENCE

Brooklyn, NY 11238

GravityLens Founder, 2001 2008

917-***-**** Consulting designer, animator, art director and producer. Lecturer in motion

hughsansom.com graphics at NYU ( 03 04). Grew client list to over 50 firms.

gravitylens.com The Bill Moyers Journal & NOW on PBS Art Director, 2006 2009

**********@*****.*** Art direction and animation for the two award-winning PBS news programs.

Technical consulting on hardward/software for conversion to high definition.

Show & Tell Jumbotron advertising animation, 2007 2008

Art directed and animated series of high definition signs in Times Square, NY, to

advertise Allergan s Juv derm and new financial services from JPMorgan Chase.

Showtime Art Direction, 2002 2006

Art direction, design, animation (especially titles and promos) for award-winning

original programming, including Huff, The L-Word, Queer as Folk, Californication,

Showtime Boxing. Design, animation for Showtime advertising.

New Line Cinema Design & Animatino, Interactive & TV, 2001 2002

Motion graphics and interactive art direction for advertising and promotion of New

Line films, including Cannes Palme d Or winner Dancer in the Dark.

Ogilvy and Mather Senior Art Director, 1999 2001

Directed, designed, animated new media and motion graphics for web ad and

broadcast ad campaigns; 3D modeling / animation; managed illustrators and writers.

The DI Group/Banta Graphic Design & Production, 1995 99

Producer, designer animator for interactive media and broadcast video.

EXPERTISE

Motion graphics and visual effects in 2D / 3D for broadcast and interactive using

leading tools, especially After Effects, 3ds max, Cinema 4D, Photoshop, Illustrator.

Creative development and strategy, especially for entertainment and advertising.

Project Management, including client relationship management, supervision of

illustrators, copywriters, production artists, and junior designers.

Information design for interactive media, including consultation on and evaluation

of alternative solutions; GUI design; info architecture.

Print design for books and periodicals for trade, advertising; Quark Xpress.

EDUCATION

Massachusetts College of Art study in design, drawing, photography, book arts;

1995 application-only workshop with the Pulitzer-winning poet Galway Kinnell.

M.I.T. M.S., Philosophy, Thesis: Can Future People Have Rights? Issues of waste

disposal, environmental conservation. Research: ethics, politics, philosophy of science.

Cornell University A.B., Thomas J. Watson Memorial Scholarship. Physics, Study in

biology, chemistry, math, philosophy.

SHOWS & PUBLICATIONS

Directed "The Second Coming". Compositing/animation for Andreas Troeger s 911.

Numerous projects in still photography and non-commercial motion effects.

Spring 2008, Click! show at the Brooklyn Museum and publication of same name.

Winter 2007 08, Rare Gallery, New York, New York

Fall 2005, Chain, vol. 12: Fact, Drug Facts // War, with Alexandra Chasin.

April 2003, The Brooklyn International Film Festival.

November 2002, MEDIA[LESS]MEDIUM at The Boston Center for the Arts.

September 2002, The Second Coming screened at The Kitchen, NYC.

Spring 2002, The Second Coming at The Collective Unconscious, NYC.

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