Chris Young is an Art Dir­ector and Graphic Designer living in Van­couver, BC.

I’m looking for a full-time art direction/design job in Van­couver.
You can down­load my resume here (http://www NULL.chrisyoung­design NULL.com/ChrisYoungResume NULL.pdf) (290k) and down­load high­lights from my port­fo­lio here (http://www NULL.chrisyoung­design NULL.com/ChrisYoungPortfolio_2010June NULL.pdf) (15MB PDF).
Be sure to check out my LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/chrisyoung43 (http://www NULL.linkedin NULL.com/in/chrisyoung43).

BIO
Who could have guessed that Clif­ford the Big Red Dog was going to change Chris’ life forever? His earli­est memor­ies of design include rep­lic­at­ing the entire series of Clif­ford books page-by-page. At the age of six he was making his own books, and by sixteen he was pub­lish­ing a ‘zine with sub­scribers world­wide. He had no idea that was a job – it was just a labour of love. It’s amazing what you can do when you put your head down with Stiff Little Fingers (http://en NULL.wiki­pe­dia NULL.org/wiki/Stiff_Little_Fingers) cranked.

Fast-forward twenty years, and he’s still doing what he loves; only now he gets paid. As an Art Dir­ector and Graphic Designer he has worked on pro­jects from leading BMX brands, to some of the most select real estate pro­jects in Van­couver. Adapt­ab­il­ity and diversity is what he’s known for. Well, that and his relent­less pursuit to getting it done right, and on time.

In addi­tion to design, Chris is deeply involved with the action sports industry. Working on a team, he has put on some of the most pres­ti­gi­ous events on the BMX cal­en­dar includ­ing the legendary Red Bull Elev­a­tion con­tests and the Metro Jam BMX contest series around the world. He also sits on the Board of Dir­ect­ors for the Inter­na­tional BMX Free­style Fed­er­a­tion (http://ibmxff NULL.org/board NULL.html) (IBMXFF) the gov­ern­ing body for BMX cycling report­ing to the Inter­na­tional Olympic Com­mit­tee (IOC) and has been an active Dir­ector of the Van­couver Skate­board Coali­tion (http://www NULL.vsbc NULL.ca/) (VSBC) since 1999, working with the City of Van­couver and Van­couver Park Board on solu­tions for youth parks. Most recently Chris has been a lead member working with the Van­couver Park Board in the devel­op­ment of the Vanier Park Dirt Jump Park (http://www NULL.face­book NULL.com/photo NULL.php?pid=13172225&id=838765715#!/group NULL.php?gid=53459006970&ref=ts) in Van­couver opening late Summer 2010.

Chris is an avid cyclist (http://www NULL.flickr NULL.com/photos/chris_young/3282581352/in/set-72157613826540859/#/photos/chris_young/3282581352/in/set-72157613826540859/lightbox/), snow­boarder, swimmer, camper, hiker and lover of the outdoors.

Oh, and he still listens to Stiff Little Fingers.

I’ve worked with some great clients over the years, here’s a partial list:

Feel free to contact me for more information.