Based in
New York, NY
Currently
Product Design Manager at Optimum
Education
BFA Illustration and Design at Lesley University
(The Art Institute of Boston)
Select Brands
Disney, FedEx, United Airlines, Optimum
Creative Studio Director — Brand, Product & Entertainment
Shawn Scott has spent over two decades doing one thing: making complicated things feel effortless. Not as a philosophy. As a practice — applied across brand identity, digital product, advertising campaigns, and interactive experiences for some of the most recognized names in entertainment, logistics, and travel.
His career has never fit neatly into one discipline, and that’s always been the point. At FedEx, he conceived DRIVE — a multi-sport gaming platform that turned four major sponsorships into one unified, playable brand world. At Disney Vacation Club, he built a cohesive visual identity across 14 resort properties. At United Airlines, he rebuilt MileagePlus from the ground up. At Optimum, he’s designing the streaming experience for 500k+ subscribers.
What connects those projects isn’t a medium — it’s a way of thinking. Every system he builds is designed to feel inevitable to the person inside it. Like it could only have been made this way. Like someone actually gave a damn about every detail, all the way down.
Shawn holds a BFA in Illustration from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University — a foundation that still shows up in how he thinks about visual storytelling, composition, and the weight a single image can carry in a product interface or a campaign.
Outside the work, Shawn is exactly who you’d expect from someone who thinks this way.