Jason Santa Maria
Creative Director
Creative director Jason Santa Maria has been recognized for designing stylistic and imaginative web interfaces that maintain a balance of usability and effective content presentation.
Before Happy Cog, Jason worked at numerous agencies as both interactive graphic designer and art director for such clients as Public Broadcasting System (PBS), E! Online, Comedy Central, Miramax Films, SAP, EMC Corporation, The New York Stock Exchange, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and T. Rowe Price.
Jason has been a panelist at the SXSW Interactive conference and is a featured speaker at the Event Apart conferences nationwide. He is well known for his award-winning personal site, jasonsantamaria.com, where he frequently discusses design and its benefits.
Non-designers know Jason as the Rob Weychert-designed talking head Virtual Stan and as a member of the Bredstik Entertainment independent film cooperative, responsible for such office cinema classics as “Lunch Break.”
Selected Articles and Publications
- Cheating Color
- December 2006, 24 ways
- Fighting Off Design Stagnation
- January 2005, Design-in-Flight issue 3 cover story
- The Aged Aesthetic
- June 2004, design style tutorial, jasonsantamaria.com
- Grey Box Methodology
- May 2004, design method overview, jasonsantmaria.com
Personal site: jasonsantamaria.com