EMAIL: steve -at- debrundesign.com
Founder and President, de Brun Design, Inc., Los Angeles, CA 1999-2007
Founder and President of interdisciplinary design firm specializing in creative strategy, information and interface design, and identity design. Clients include News Corporation, Ascent Media Group (Liberty Media), Greylock Partners, Brown University, California League of Conservation Voters, PicksPal, Veoh, Aquaya.
Co-Founder, Squirl, 2006-
Co-founded and managed growing social network for collectibles. Responsible for business formation, creative strategy, interface design, branding and marketing.
VP User Experience, Guru.com, San Francisco, CA 1999-2000
Early team member, responsible for building Guru.com's creative platform from scratch, managing a high-energy team, and providing the company with creative vision. Work included: design of company identity, creative direction for all design output, all user interface development and information architecture for website, creative direction for environmental design projects (Guru Awards, GuruSpeak, GuruMixers).
Creative Director, Migo Media, Inc., San Francisco CA 1998-1999
Founding member of internet startup company which created a highly localized, personalized information service. Responsible for the design and implementation of web interface, company identity, collateral, presentations, creative conceptual strategy.
Independent consultant, Australia and the U.S. 1997-1999
Worked as an independent consultant to various companies in Australasia and the U.S., including Consultco, the AFL website (a joint venture between News Corporation, Channel Seven and the Australia Football League), Beyond International, Aspect Financial Pty Ltd and egreetings. Specialized in creatively building companies and ventures from scratch. URLs include www.afl.com.au, and www.aspectfinancial.com.au.
Creative Director, News Corporation (News Limited), Sydney, Australia 1996
As Creative Director, helped News Limited start up their online ventures in Australia. Projects include Newsclassifieds, a classifieds site which aggregated the classified ads of over 100 newspapers across the country; a 1996 Olympics website; identity design for News Limited's interactive group.
Lead Designer, vivid studios (now owned by Modem Media), San Francisco CA 1994-1996
Worked as lead designer on numerous high-profile, early Internet ventures. Projects included Windows95 Launch Site, Sony's Johnny Mnemonic NetHunt, IDG corporate website, Computer Curriculum Corporation online learning venture, numerous books, kiosks, experimental interfaces.
Co-Founder, BARD, various locations 1992-1993
Co-founded a not for profit bicycling expedition which raised funds and awareness for responsible development in Latin America. Completed a 6,000 mile bike trek from California to Chile.
E D U C A T I O N
Brown University, 1992, B.A.
Graduated from Brown with a degree in the Visual Arts. Studied art history, semiotics, studio art, Spanish, geology. Captain of the squash team.
S K I L L S
Creative skills
Creative management, identity design, storyboarding, creative concepting, team communication and collaboration, art direction, creative direction.
Web development
Fluent in all tools for creating graphical user interfaces (Photoshop, Illustrator, html, etc.); fluent in information design methodologies and implementation; strong experience in usability issues, human-computer interaction, icon design.
Other skills and interests
Fluent in Spanish, squash, tennis, surfing, mountain bike trekking, Latin music, meteorology.