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Matt Ipcar is a New York based interactive designer currently working as design director for Blue State Digital. Matt comes to Blue State directly from his role as design director for the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team, where he was in charge of developing information architecture and visual design for Change.gov, the newly redesigned WhiteHouse.gov and other Transition projects both online and off. From July to November of 2008, Matt worked in Obama for America’s Chicago headquarters, serving as the new media team’s rapid response design director. There, he produced and launched high profile, quick-turnaround campaign projects including Fight The Smears.com, Keatingeconomics.com, The Obama-Biden Tax Calculator, The OFA Record, and many others.

In addition to these projects, Ipcar designed site graphics and renovated sections on barackobama.com, designed OFA Headquarters signage, helped with numerous print projects, and a hundred other things. Matt was fortunate enough to work with Scott Thomas, John Slabyk, Will "Magic" Wan, Kyle Crouse, Walker Hamilton, and many other talented web designers, developers and strategists who helped make the dream a reality.

Before That, Matt was Design Director for Fenton Communications, the country's largest communications firm exclusively serving the non-profit and public interest sector. Clients include Amnesty International, The Humane Society, CARE, Americares, UNHCR, and Moveon.org, among others.

From 2004-2007, Matt was Principle Designer in the New York studio of frogdesign, the global strategic creative consultancy, leading interactive projects and doing hands-on user interface and visual design for clients such as MTV, The BBC, Vonage, Barnes & Noble, Virgin Mobile, and Microsoft.

Matt also has a background in news photography, covering human interest and conflict stories in Iraq, The West Bank, Jordan, Egypt, Nicaragua, Uganda as well as Mississippi and New Orleans. He has shot professionally for Max Verlag, Glamour Magazine, The SF Bay Guardian, The San Jose Metro, and Salon Magazine.

Matt lives in Brooklyn with his wife, journalist and author Michelle Goldberg. If you want to see his older site which includes photo galleries and previous design work, please click here. You can contact him at matt@ipcardesign.com.

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