Sean Adams

Graphic Design
Integrated Studies
sadams@artcenter.edu
www.adamsmorioka.com

BIOGRAPHY

Sean Adams has been cited as one of the forty most important people shaping design internationally in the ID40. Sean is President Emiritus and past national board member of AIGA, and past President of AIGA Los Angeles. He is a Fellow of the Aspen Design Conference, and AIGA Fellow. Sean is a frequent lecturer and competition judge internationally. Adams is the author of Logo Design Workbook, Color Design Workbook, and the series, Masters of Design.

EDUCATION

B.F.A. California Institute of the Arts 1986 Visual Communication
AIGA Harvard Business School 2002 Executive Education

WORK INCLUDES

AdamsMorioka, Inc.
Partner

CLIENTS INCLUDE

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Adobe
Gap
Frank Gehry Partners
MTV Networks
Nickelodeon
Sundance
USC
The Walt Disney Company
Target
Natural History Museum
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE

Solo exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2000
Design Indaba, Capetown, South Africa
2009
AIGA 365, CG, 50 Books, etc.
1994-2009
New York Art Director''s Club
1994-2009
various, internationally
1994-2009

AWARDS INCLUDE

ID40
British Art Director''s Club
New York Art Director''s Club
AIGA Fellow
Benjamin Franklin Awards
International Design Conference at Aspen Fellow
Step 100
Graphis
How 100
AIGA 365, CG, 50 Books, etc.

PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE

Graphis
Step
How
Axis Tokyo
a Diseno, Mexico
Design Indaba, South Africa
Communication Arts
Creative Axis, Ireland
Metropolis
La Nacion, Buenos Aires
Monument, Australia
Print
Wired
The New York Times
The Los Angeles Times
various, 1994-