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WELCOME As Design Director for the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team, Matt was in charge of developing visual design and information architecture for WhiteHouse.gov, Change.gov, and other Transition projects both online and off. Prior to the transition, Matt worked in the '08 Obama campaign's Chicago headquarters as the new media team's Rapid Response Design Director, a role in which he produced and launched high-profile, quick-turnaround projects like FightTheSmears.com, KeatingEconomics.com, the Obama-Biden Tax Calculator, and the Obama for America (OFA) Record. He also designed site graphics and renovated sections on BarackObama.com, designed OFA headquarters signage, and helped on numerous print projects. Before the 2008 campaign, Matt was Design Director for Fenton Communications, the country's largest communications firm exclusively serving the non-profit and public interest sector. His clients included Amnesty International, The Humane Society, CARE, Americares, UNHCR, and Moveon.org, among others. From 2004-2007, Matt was Principal 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. Ipcar also has a background in news photography and has covered human interest and conflict stories in Iraq, the West Bank, Jordan, Egypt, Nicaragua, Uganda, Mississippi, and New Orleans. Matt holds a degree in environmental planning and design from the SUNY at Buffalo School of Architecture, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife Michelle . You can contact him at matt@ipcardesign.com.
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