2024 Oct-Dec The Future Society, London, UK
Motion graphic designer, editor
10-year Anniversary video, shown at OECD; video editor for 6th annual Athens Roundtable
2014-2024 Open Society Foundations, New York, NY
Video producer, motion graphic designer
Open Society Foundations, the world’s largest human-rights philanthropy, went remote during the pandemic.
From 2020-2023, I produced 30 virtual, hybrid and in-person public events per year and 40 internal events.
2020-2024 Rutgers University–Camden, NJ
Part-Time Lecturer in Visual Art department
2023 DadaGlobal, “Gute Nacht,” Zurich, CH
Editor, motion tracking, FX
DaDa is a Swiss DJ whose latest album, Winterreise, is a re-interpretation of Schubert’s classic song cycle. DaDa approached me to make a music video of the first track, Gute Nacht.
The video was filmed in a studio in Zurich, Switzerland, and I embedded the entire video within a Tesla tablet, filmed in B-roll. The final product is a music video in which DaDa is a narrator of his winter trip through the snowy mountains, which ended in a car accident.
2020-2021 UnLocal, New York, NY
Creative director, video producer, cinematographer, motion graphic designer, editor
UnLocal is a of non-profit organization that helps immigrants access legal services. We made six videos profiling their clients, fellows and various programs and used the videos to build community and secure a $1,000,000 grant in 2023.
2016-2017 Bronx Immigration Partnership
Creative director, web design, video producer, cinematographer, motion graphic designer, editor
Bronx Immigration Partnership is a consortium of non-profit organizations that helps immigrants access services. We made six videos that balanced the individual identity of each member organization with the logo and branding of the entire group.
The trilingual website includes off-line mobile formatting. Social channels pared with in-person workshops to deliver constituents the most customized support possible.
2012-2016 City Congregation of Humanistic Judaism
Video producer, motion graphic designer, editor
2014-2015 Imparali Tailors
Video producer, cinematographer, motion graphic designer, editor
2013-2014 Pratt Institute
Technician, Film/Video department
Supported students with film, video and audio gear for student productions
2012 Beatriz daCosta
Artist assistant
2012 Reversible Destiny
Graphic Designer
Created renderings and informational materials for studio design of museum for Dakis Joannou
2011-2012 About.com
Video producer, instructional videos
2011 New Perspectives Theatre
Creative director, video producer
I designed six videos across six monitors as the set design for “Traveling Shoes.”
2011 Direct Approach Solutions
Video producer
2010-2011 Corporate Speech Solutions
Video editor
Edited videos for corporate speech DVD
2009 San Francisco Art Institute
Technician, Film/Video department
EDUCATION
2024 Google
Certificate, UX Graphic Design
2024 California Institute of the Arts
Certificate, Graphic Design
2008-2010 San Francisco Art Institute
Masters of Fine Art, New Genres
2002-2005 University of Washington
Bachelors of Arts, Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Visual Arts
Hi, I’m Don Daedalus, a New York City-based Motion Graphic Designer and Video Producer. I’ve made images move and shake in higher ed, non-profits, corporations, museums and online.
I grew up in a small town in Washington State, the son of a Vietnamese political refugee and delightful lady that I call every Sunday. I studied philosophy and interdisciplinary visual arts at the University of Washington, received an MFA in New Genres / Video from the San Francisco Art Institute and supplemented my formal studies with a Graphic Design Certificate from CalArts.
I’m an avid traveler and technical scuba diver. My writings can be found at LiveThriveDive.com and Medium. To escape the screen, I rebind rare books.
ddaedalus@gmail. com
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