Bryan Rackleff Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Working in a contracted Freelance position helping The Weather Channel with their Up Front presentations.

Hoboken, Nj

Greater New York City Area And Dublin Ireland

Prior to joining Storyful Bryan has worked as Digital Creative Director at Comedy Central,The Daily/News Corp., G2 Interactive, WEA {Warner/Elektra/Atlantic} corporation and Director of Visual Design at Rare Medium in NYC. Other career highlights: founding member of Go2net in Seattle, a pioneering web design firm; Professor of new media/interface design at Art Center College of Design, CA. Bryan cannot sing or play a musical instrument, but has been nominated for a Grammy Award {for Art Direction}

New York, Ny

Comedy Central, Apps & Sites that make you laugh.At Comedy Central I am in charge of the Digital Design Department, I oversee, design and plan the design for all the channel's shows, sites and apps. Since my tenure at Comedy Central I have Designed and launched new sites and Apps for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, @Midnight, Workaholics, Tosh.0, Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer, Trip Tank, Review, Kroll Show, Key and Peele, Drunk History, Brickleberry, Nathan For You and various Stand-Up Specials.

The Daily is a new iPad News division of News Corp.

Prior to joining This Is It Stageworks Bryan has worked as Digital Creative Director at Storyful/News Corp., Comedy Central,The Daily/News Corp., G2 Interactive, WEA {Warner/Elektra/Atlantic} corporation and Director of Visual Design at Rare Medium in NYC. Other career highlights: founding member of Go2net in Seattle, a pioneering web design firm; Professor of new media/interface design at Art Center College of Design, CA. Bryan cannot sing or play a musical instrument, but has been nominated for a Grammy Award {for Art Direction}

G2 Interactive.http://www.g2.com/Responsibilities included leading the Creative Department. This includes voicing the Department's group vision, its needs, and its views to management. Perform administrative aspects for the dept. such as performance reviews, project resourcing, hiring, recruiting, and utilization. Work on billable projects, oversee andfoster critiques for all projects. Clients include: Campbell’s, Prego, PepperidgeFarms, V8 Juices, Pace Salsa, GMAC, Merrill Lynch, Alcoa, Kumho Tires, Chase Credit cards, Master Foods, M&Ms, Snickers, Starburst, 3 Musketeers, Pepperidge Farms Goldfish, Sony Pictures Classics

S3Boonton, New Jersey http://www.s3s3s3.com/ Responsibilities include leading the Creative Department. This includes voicing the Creative Department’s group vision, its needs, and its views to management and the rest of the company. Perform administrative aspects for the dept. such as performance reviews, project resourcing, hiring, recruiting, utilization, and purchasing. Plan and pave the path for the individual Designers career paths. Work on billable projects and oversee and foster critiques for all other projects. Clients include: BMW, Aston Martin, Jaguar, MINI, Land Rover, Wyndham Hotels, Avaya, Dior, Chanel, Calvin Klein

WEA, Warner/Elektra/Atlantic CorporationNew York, New YorkResponsibilities include all aspects of design and production of print, video, packaging and www design for major recording music distributor. All instore retail merchandise, trade show and sales material. Supply materials to a national sales force of 90+ employees. Collaborate with third party marketing partnerships. Artists campaigns: Metallica, Linkin Park, Bonnie Rait, Ti, Twista, Damien Rice, Static X, Madonna, Cher and many others.

Rare Medium Inc. New York, New York http://www.raremedium.com/Responsibilities include overseeing 23 Visual Designers. Web based interface design, strategic and conceptual development of fortune 1000 sites through development and delivery. Represent the Dept. at large and its individuals. This includes voicing the Visual design Dept.'s group vision, its needs, and its views to management and the rest of the company. Perform administrative aspects for the dept. such as performance reviews, project resourcing, hiring, recruiting, utilization, and purchasing. Plan and pave the path for the individual Designers career paths. Work on billable projects and oversee and foster critiques for all other projects.Projects worked on: Balduccis.com, PaineWebber Corp.wide intranet, J.P. Morgan Asset Management Portal, Guardian Glass.com(in process), Sony Freq site, various Sharp Electronic sites, Pfizer, Lucent, Muze.com SmartOnline.com, ExpertCommerce, and others.

Those People Pasadena, CaliforniaGraphic Design studio with partner Rebecca Mendez. Clients included, University of California Los Angeles School of Architecture, Rice University School of Architecture, Capitol Records, Rhino Records, Go2net Inc., Art Center College of Design, Whitney Museum of Art, Rizzoli Books.

Go2net Inc. Seattle, Washington http://www.go2net.com/ Bryan was one of the original founders that helped create Go2net (NASDAQ: GNET merged to INFSP) At the time Go2net was the 12th most trafficked site on the internet. Was instrumental in developing the information architecture and graphical look and feel of go2net's suite of niche web sites that include: StockSite.com (now Silicon Investor), PlaySite.com, MetaCrawler.com. WebMarket and Hypermart. Oversaw a group of 4 designers.

Art Center College of Design Pasadena, California http://www.artcenter.edu/Taught Interface Design to Master of Fine Arts students and undergraduate students. Focus was on visual design, composition, interaction design and technology solutions for various new medias. Also taught Advanced Typography and Information Design classes in the Graphic Design Department.

Rhino Records Los Angeles, California http://www.rhino.com/Responsible for design, concept and production of music packaging of CDs and CD box sets. Titles include: John Coltrane The Heavyweight Champion (Grammy nominated for packaging), Curtis Mayfield The Curtis Mayfield Story, Les McCann & Eddie Harris Swiss Movement, The Cars Anthology Just What I needed, Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Emerson Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery, National Lampoon The Best of Radio Hour.

Siegel & Gale Los AngelesCalifornia http://www.siegelgale.com/index_flash.htmlResponsible for design, concept and production of corporate identity collateral materials for fortune 500 companies. Projects included: Simpson paper Company promotions, Trans America Life Insurance corporate identity system, SweetSource Interactive Packaging system, Siegel & Gale's global interactive capabilities program, National Semi Conductor's annual report.

April Greiman Inc. Los Angeles, California http://la.pentagram.com/Responsible for design, concept and production of printed collateral and architectural graphics. Projects included: Ceritos Center for the Performing Arts, Southern California Institute of Architecture work book published by Rizzoli, Roto-ndi/redroto, Michael Rotondi architectural design exhibit, The Gap in-house newsletter, Gap Rap, Microsoft Television campaign.

Mfa & Bfa, Graphic Design / Digital Design

Taught undergraduate and graduate level students at Art Center College of Design, in the Graphic Design & Digital Design Departments for 5.

High School Diploma, General