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Scott Ballum is a Senior Designer at C&G Partners in New York City, a design firm specializing in strategic and creative work for media, the arts and public spaces. The firm offers a range of design disciplines including identity and graphic design, signage and exhibit works, and interactive media on- and off-line. Scott has created identity programs for Signature Theatre Company and the Alhurra Television Network, as well as the design of ongoing exhibitions and the upcoming 87th Annual for the Art Directors Club.
Scott has received awards from the ADC, GD USA, and the School of Visual Arts, while his work has been featured in LINO Magazine (Australia), Resurgence (UK), Adbusters, STEP Inside Design, and in Art Directors Club Annuals 83 and 84. He was an invited speaker at the 2004 International Design Masters Forum in Shanghai, and has served as juror and curator for School of Visual Arts exhibitions. Scott was featured in a film focusing on up-and-coming designers created for the 2005 AIGA National Design Conference, and is a featured alumnus on SVA's website. In January 2008, GD USA Magazine included Scott in their annual "People to Watch" issue.
Before joining C&G Partners, Scott was engaged independently under the moniker Sheepless, working primarily with fellow artists, non-profit organizations, and New York-area businesses, including the Art Directors Club of New York, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Boston, and The Parrish Art Museum in Southhampton, NY. In February 2006, Scott was named Design Director of Housing Works, the nation's largest community-based AIDS service organization and a leader in social enterprise. Scott is also the creator of consume®evolution Magazine, dedicated to exposing growing complacency with globalization and consumerism and offering viable alternatives to a "mass-produced" lifestyle. His recent endeavor, the Consume®econnection Project, has received internatonal press since its inception and continues to evolve.
Sheepless continues as an on-going experiment in conscientious design- and decision-making. Scott lives in Brooklyn, NY.
News
6.2008
June Press | Design Observer | Disassociated
5.2008
May Press | Eyeteeth | The Consumerist | Green Daily | Brooklyn Daily Eagle |  | Twin Cities Daily Planet
4.2008
April Press | GOOD Magazine | PSFK | Gothamist | Kate Andrews | Search and Destroy | Eyebeam reBlog | Big Think | Design:related
3.5.2008
The Art Directors Club of New Jersey invited Scott to jury their 2007-2008 Annual Competition.
1.19.2008
Scott is featured in Graphic Design USA magazine's "People to Watch in 2008" January special issue.
8.4.2007
Brooklyn-based band Kind Monitor unveils their new logo. More to come from them.
5.2.2007
The Art Directors Club of New York's 86th Annual Awards Program features an exhibit created by Scott and his team at C&G, including motion graphics and interactive kiosks. The 86th Annual, released in the fall, will include a DVD designed by this team as well.
2.15.2007
Signature Theatre Company launches the 2007-08 Season with a new identity designed by C&G Partners.
11.9.2006
ADC Young Guns 5 exhibition opened in New York last night: "This was a class-act night. The best I’ve ever attended... Tell you why; it had a club feeling, a welcoming feeling that was hip, happening and newsworthy. It felt like the club was for that moment the epic center of new design and photography and advertising. At a certain moment, I walked outside and counted over fifty people waiting to get in. You see last night you guys made it the place to be and that’s not easy in a city like New York." -- Joerun Bours, ADC Board Member, CD Hill Holliday. Site | Photos
11.6.2006
Blurring the Lines, a 4-part exhibit celebrating the breadth of the School of Visual Art's Graphic Design Department, will be on view until November 20. Scott was asked to curate and install the Senior Library: Tangible/Intangible room, based upon the book of the same name designed by Paula Scher.
10.1.2006
Scott is profiled as a featured Graphic Design Alumnus on the School of Visual Arts website for the 2006-07 academic year.
9.10.2006
Scott has been invited to join C & G Partners as a Senior Designer on staff. He will join the team in October while finishing his ongoing projects this fall, including exhibits for G2, ADC Hall of Fame, and ADC Young Guns 5.
7.28.2006
AIDSVote.org, a new website supplying information and materials to grassroots HIV/AIDS organizations nationwide, is now live. Scott designed the site and downloadable materials (from "Birddogging 101" to teeshirt and button designs) based on a system of icons created by Nicholas Blechman.
6.8.2006
ADC 85th Annual Awards opens today. For the first time, this year's event openened with a red-carpet hostess broadcast live on stage inside, and a VIP lounge furnished by Design Within Reach.
4.21.2006
ADC has asked Sheepless to design and install the Annual Awards Exhibition for the third consecutive year, opening 6.8.2006.
4.7.2006
Sheepless designed the promotional posters for Untucked Productions' charity cabaret (pdf) to benefit UNICEF.
3.1.2006
Scott is invited by School of Visual Arts Advertising and Graphic Design Dept Chairman Richard Wilde to jury the SVA Senior Design Portfolio exhibition. Scott will also install the show, opening 3.28.2006 at the Art Directors Club.
2.15.2006
Scott begins his role as Design Director for Housing Works, Inc., a national leader in social enterprise raising money and awareness through thrift shops, book stores, and building management to fund their work in advocacy and health care, battling the twin crises of HIV and homelessness.
1.31.2006
Scott entered ADC Young Guns 5 competition. Winners will be announced in April.
1.20.2006
Scott joined the team behind Art For Progress, a New York-centered non-profit aiming to bring local artists together and to the art-loving (and -buying) public. He'll begin an on-going pro bono Creative Director role with the organization by developing membership and sponsorship materials. Check back soon for details.
10.17.2005
The short-lived twoseventy.net received it's first review from dtwang.net, with a mention of C® Magazine.
10.13.2005
Scott's apartment is featured in the real estate section of last weeks' Newsday. The full-page story isn't very interesting, but there are a couple of good photos.
9.15.2005
"The Coming-Sooners", a short film by Rafael Esquer featuring Scott and five other up-and-coming designers, was screened at the AIGA National Design Conference in Boston this weekend
9.1.2005
consume®evolution is included in STEP Inside Design's NEXT: Design Industry News section of the Sept/Oct 2005 Issue.
8.1.2005
Scott and consume®evolution are mentioned in a article regarding consumerism in the UK's Resurgence magazine.
7.4.2005
Happy Independence Day! C® is plugged on Adbuster Magazine's website.
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