20 years in the game.
Hello, I am Sean, a passionate and innovative creative lead currently in the Chicagoland area.
I am an Emmy-nominated, Webby and Promax award winning design leader who has spent my career creating and managing fresh and thoughtful content in the digital entertainment landscape. I started my career as a designer with Warner Bros. Studios and then Warner Bros. Online. After which I shifted over to MTV Networks for six and a half years, where I got a taste for art direction and large scale projects. I then went to truTV as their Art Director to help build out a design team before they started to begin a full rebrand and shift in content offerings. After three years with them, I left to take on the task of building out another digital design team at NBCUniversal, specifically focusing on their late night properties. Going on to spend almost six years as Senior Art Director there, I couldn’t be more proud of the always inspired, often hilarious, and top tier quality content we had made for those programs. Currently, I am freelancing in the entertainment/music, hospitality, event, food/beverage, education, and health spaces, working on design direction, branding, marketing assets, original content creation, and business strategy.
Entertainment and pop culture has had a strong through line in my career as it does in my personal life as well. Movies, television, comedy, and music are serious passions of mine, as well as their creation, communities, and storytelling. I am also an empathetic and compassionate manager who believes my best successes are watching developing designers grow, learn, and accomplish incredible feats in content creation. Lastly, I firmly believe a genuine and hearty laugh is the best currency.
sean.gresens@gmail.com