Jesse Burden

Art Direction + Design

About Jesse Burden

Currently, I am an independent art director and graphic designer with more than 10 years professional experience.

I have worked in both New York and Los Angeles, mainly serving clients in the entertainment/music industry. In both cities I have worked from my studio as well as in-house, art directing and designing packaging, merchandising, and promotions for various companies and record labels and artists, including Sony Music, Island/Def Jam, Warner Brothers’ Reprise and Vapor Records, Palm Pictures, Rykodisc, Artemis Records and Sanctuary Records. For these clients I have provided a range of print and new media services spanning art direction, photography, layout, logo design, fontography, prepress and color approval; as well as, web design, navigation, DHTML + CSS code, actionscripting, flash animation, film/video shooting, editing and encoding. I am equally strong in print and new media design.

I aspire to highest levels of media art direction. I am constantly studying the development of the medium and the industry, from having learned traditional layout techniques to creating one of the earliest blogs for a band; to following the various changes involving social networks; to working as a cinematographer for a recent music documentary; to working out new modes of advertising. Next steps for me entail securing a full-time position with an innovative company where I can further build and deploy my skills to create compelling media assets, and continue to tell compelling stories.