En Pointe founder Yvette Clark brings a wealth of experience to her role as leader of the En Pointe team. Yvette developed her visual communication skills through hands on experience, having been apprenticed from the early age of 16, and has consistently worked since then to create innovative visual work for clients in entertainment and commerce. Recently, she served as Marketing Director for the prestigious Quincy Jones' Lisen Up Foundation's We Are the Future Concert held in Rome, Italy in May, 2004. A star-studded event that included Oprah Winfrey, Angelina Jolie, Santana, Naomi Campbell, Josh Groban and many others, the concert was broadcast worldwide on MTV, Yahoo! and XM Radio. Attended by over 750,000 people, the record-setting event served as the springboard for a new world organization to benefit children in war-torn countries.

In recent years she served as the Creative Director, and eventually Executive Creative Director at CarsDirect.com. In this role she designed the original specification for the CarsDirect.com website and worked with top leaders there to create a brand identity for the phenomenally successful online startup. Since then, the CarsDirect.com website has won numerous awards including Forbes Favorite, #1 from Gomez Advisors, and MVP from PC Magazine.

As Creative Director at En Pointe Yvette designed 70% of Warner Home Video’s DVD European Launch, and 30% of the American campaign. She has worked on over 30 political campaigns including victories for Senator Paul Wellstone and Caroline McCarthy.

Yvette has worked closely with entrepreneurial teams and facilitated the development and growth of several small companies from the ground up. Including; Lickerish, Smarty Pants Web Design, Project Flint which later became BTOAuto.com, Dental Advantage, Gartner Graphics, Grandpa G’s, Symphony In Movement, Vantage Magazine and Aviation Audio Visual Library which was eventually acquired by DoubleDay. Additionally Yvette has done extensive and award-winning work in the Theater Arts, having worked on over 40 theatrical productions. Her production design efforts helped garner the prestigious Lumiere Award for the film "First Daughter" and she was awarded the Most Promising Newcomer award by Women In Theatre.

GARETH SMITH
gareth@epstudios.com

Gareth Smith is a specialist in motion graphics and graphic design. Over the past several years, both as an award winning student in the Design department at UCLA and as a freelance designer and motion artist he has consistently produced innovative and high-profile projects. In January of 2000 "This Guy Is Falling," Gareth’s short film directorial debut, was selected as an official Sundance Film Festival selection. Currently he is Senior Designer of print media at En Pointe Studios.

DAMON SEELEY
damon@epstudios.com

In the pursuit of understanding and exploring the nexus of technology, commerce and the arts, Damon Seeley has fulfilled roles as a print and web designer, technology director/facilitator and team leader for design and media-arts projects. Currently Damon is Senior Designer of interactive media at En Pointe Studios. As a lead world designer and project leader for Professor Rebecca Allen’s Emergence project at UCLA Damon was responsible for character design and programming as well as overall art direction. During two terms of consultancy for Disney Feature Animation Damon implemented a number of technology solutions to the animation development process, including visualization workstations and color management. At UCLA as a student in the Design Department he undertook and directed several experimental web projects. Additionally, Damon works as a motion graphics artist in Los Angeles.