Andrew Sawyer Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Experience working on experiential/immersive design, digital design, and print-based projects. Clients include: Old Navy, Autodesk, Climate Change Museum, Peters Cellars Winery, Harris Face Music, The Potomac School, SASS School, Root Division, and more.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Hired and managed a digital design team at the California Academy of Sciences, working on the experience and visual design of digital projects across visitor touchpoints.• Lead the design of multilingual implementations and accessibility projects and audience interaction.• Designed a new "Phenomenon" blog, microsites and apps for subject specific topics, and web UI elements such as a quick purchase ticketing widget.• Art directed junior designers for dozens of marketing and fundraising campaigns, printed signage, and web designs.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Designed interactive exhibits, websites, apps, and digital signage at the Academy of Sciences.• Helped define the digital strategy for how to integrate screens into the museum experience shaping the future of digital museum experiences both on-site and remotely.• Designed the UX, UI, and architecture of a new e-commerce platform, and designed multi-touchpoint ticketing system to leverage the new Tessitura system.• Designed a new responsive digital ID system to tell multilingual and multimedia stories about 300+ objects and specimens.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Designed interactive exhibits and digital products, including a re-design of the California Academy of Sciences homepages and 10+ exhibit interactive apps.• Special focus on sustainability initiatives, developing digital design systems, immersive visitor experience, and fundraising.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to create engaging websites and apps for the institution.• Utilized skills in graphic design, digital design, and user experience to enhance the Academy's digital presences across visitor touchpoints.

• Designed an immersive end-to-end visitor and staff experiences for new Carnival cruise ships.• Created a dynamic visual system for the platform, including icon design, and GPS reactive animations.• The goal was to create a connected experience and digital concierge that responds to who you are with, and your surroundings by a NFT wearable (designed by Matter).• System includes web pre-board experience, mobile, tv, wall-sided wayfinding screens, and staff app.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Designed interfaces for new consumer tech products such as wearables and iOT (internet of things) devices, designed apps, websites, and blue-sky ideation.• Collaborated with in-house industrial designers, engineers, and strategists to create innovative solutions for clients for startups and high-end global organizations.• Conducted user research to inform design decisions and improve product usability.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Kno Inc. was acquired by Intel Education in 2013Expanded on the version 2.0 design of Kno products, aligning the design with Intel Education product suite.

• Designed a multi-platform suite of education apps to enhance the classroom and textbook experience for both students and instructors.• Responsible for the design of the branding, visual app design, feature UI, web design, as well as sales and marketing collateral.• Ensured 508 compliance designing for peak accessibility across all platforms.

Us

• Designed UI elements, visual design, graphic design projects, and branding efforts for Pixink.• For experience design, worked on the UX and all of the web design stages from concept to delivering for development.• Increase in engagement through intuitive design solutions and user-centric design principles.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Visual design and user experience work with a team focused on the big picture story about Autodesk's product suite. Work included product mapping, wireframing, illustrating, and presentation design.

New York City, Ny, Us

• Designed layouts, UI for the website, digital assets, marketing materials, and helping to expand the branding for new international platforms• Part of the team working to conceptualize future of The Huffington Post post-acquisition by AOL.• Identified and implemented solutions to workflow challenges in order to increase efficiency and organization for improved user engagement.

London, Gb

Designer on Michael Gericke's team• Responsibilities includes: identity design, wayfinding signage, environmental graphics, exhibit design, web design, packaging, copywriting, and motion graphics. • High-profile clients included Big 10 (football conference), Airlines for America, World Trade Center redevelopment, and an exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of the New York Public Library.• Utilized skills in graphic design, branding, photo retouching, model making, animation, and visual communication to meet the needs of the project.

Worked on the graphic design and UI for a first of its kind interactive Popular Mechanics iPad magazine.• Created new UI patterns to translate printed magazine layouts into interactive elements.• Designed ways to make content discoverable and promote adoption of a new platform as an evolution of the printed magazine experience.

• Designed layouts and created typographic artworks for American Craft Magazine, contributing to web and publication assets.• Assisted in the development of "3DTypography" book by Jeanette Abbink and Emily Anderson (published 2010), managing artist selection and project timelines.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts, Graphic Design

High School Diploma