Matt Ipcar
Ipcar comes to us directly from his role as Design Director for the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Project, where he was in charge of developing information architecture and visual design for Change.gov, the newly redesigned WhiteHouse.gov, and other Transition projects, both online and off. From July to November of 2008, Matt worked for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, serving as the new media team's rapid response design director. There, he produced and launched high profile, quick-turnaround projects like Fight The Smears.com, KeatingEconomics.com, the Obama-Biden Tax Calculator, and the Obama for America (OFA) Record. He also designed site graphics and renovated sections on BarackObama.com, designed OFA Headquarters signage, and helped on numerous print projects.
Before the campaign, Matt was Design Director for Fenton Communications, the country's largest communications firm exclusively serving the non-profit and public interest sector. His clients included Amnesty International, The Humane Society, CARE, Americares, UNHCR, and Moveon.org, among others.
From 2004-2007, Matt was Principle Designer in the New York studio of frogdesign, the global strategic creative consultancy, leading interactive projects and doing hands-on user interface and visual design for clients such as MTV, The BBC, Vonage, Barnes & Noble, Virgin Mobile, and Microsoft. Matt also has a background in news photography and has covered human interest and conflict stories in Iraq, the West Bank, Jordan, Egypt, Nicaragua, Uganda, Mississippi, and New Orleans.
Matt holds a degree in environmental planning and design from the SUNY at Buffalo School of Architecture, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife Michelle
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