BIOGRAPHY
Sean Loyless was born in Houston, Texas in August of 1977. Over the years, it became apparent that technology and design would came naturally to the Texas native. At the age of 5 he was mimicking the cartoon style of Jim Davis drawing Garfield and others, and would continue to hone his artistic skills in both his personal and professional career.

At age 12 Sean received his first computer, a Compaq Deskpro. It featured a 2-color green and black monochrome screen, a 5 1/4″ floppy drive, 640k of memory, and a 10mb hard drive. Despite the computer’s shortcomings, Sean self-taught himself every aspect of managing and running programs on his PC.

Soon his two talents of art and technology would meld together in his teens, when he was introduced to Adobe Photoshop. Starting out simply at first, and primarily making desktop backgrounds for himself and friends, Sean became more and more interested in the field of design, both graphic and web presentation.

Sean created his very first website back in 1998, hosted with now-defunct Geocities. It was only an informational site about himself, with pictures of various illustrations and previously mentioned desktop backgrounds.

EDUCATION
Sean Loyless graduated from Magnolia High School in Magnolia, Texas. In 1997, Sean started attending Tomball Community College (currently known as Lone Star College) for a degree in Graphic Design. After completing 1/2 of the credit requirements and moving over to Kingwood College for specialized graphics classes, Sean transferred to the Art Institute of Houston under the Multimedia program.

Under this program Sean would be taught the fundamentals of many areas widely used in Internet and design purposes today: Graphic Design, Web Design, Video Editing, Sound Editing, Presentation software (Macromedia Director), and basic web animation (Flash).

Sean graduated with an Associates of Applied Science in Multimedia degree on September 15, 2001.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Sean began working in the field a year before graduating from college at both a part-time job and freelance positions in addition to going to school.

TLC Worldwide in Houston, Texas was the first career position Sean held, doing graphic design for catalogs, video editing, and minor web design and maintenance.

After TLC, Sean moved on to Metropolitan Publishing Company in Tomball, Texas. Metropolitan is a third-party yellow page directory publisher, and distributed three directories to areas in the north greater Houston area. Sean was responsible for creating, updating, and maintaining all yellow page ads for local and franchise business owners in all three directories, as well as updating the informational sections.

The first full-time web design position came in 2006 with Gray Graphics/Gray Web Technology & Design in San Antonio, Texas. During his time here, Sean used his HTML and CSS experience to develop and maintain over 100 websites. He helped create a new search engine optimization and marketing department within the company, and helped other employees with both computer and design troubleshooting.

FREELANCING
Sean has been doing freelance design for over ten years, ranging from website design, CD labels, publishing, marketing and promotion, wedding invitations, search engine optimization, and much more.

Sean has done several “good will” projects as well as donate his time to organizations such as the poster for the City of Tomball’s annual “Tomball Night” celebration.

Sean Loyless’ latest work was with new social networking startup, Blellow.com. Sean was brought on to write technical text for the social network, including help, page responses, frequently asked questions, and email text before the site launched. After launch, Sean helped welcome new users in, answered questions, and responded to bug reports via GetSatisfaction.com and on Blellow.

Sean helped out with the Blellow booth at the 2009 South By Southwest Interactive trade show by promoting the site to attendees and speaking with other business owners and representatives about the site.

Sean appeared in several videos for Blellow including street interviews at SxSW, and wrote, appeared in, and helped produce “How do you say Blellow” viral video.

Sean Loyless continues to create in San Antonio and is currently seeking new opportunities both large and small.

Notable Clients
Blellow, Jerry Fuentes, Choose Positive, Dianto Entertainment