Hansen
Creative is a one man advertising creative
department and design studio. Barry
Hansen graduated with
honors in 1988 from Brigham
Young University, receiving
a BFA degree in Graphic Design. While at BYU
he was selected
as one of 12 national Champion Imagination Scholars by
Champion
Paper Company, and his student work garnered
awards in the 1987 Utah Intercollegiate
Design Competition.
Barry
went on to become an art director at Knape&Knape, an
advertising agency
in Dallas, Texas. He worked as junior art
director on the American Heart Association
campaign featured
in the 1989 New York Art Directors Annual. His work also
received
awards in the 1989 Dallas Society of Visual
Communications and Dallas Ad League
TOPS shows.
Originally
from the Pacific Northwest, in 1989 Barry moved
to Portland, Oregon, where
he worked as an art director at
The Coates Agency (now Coates Kokes). In 1995
his work
for Georgia-Pacific received an International Association of
Business
Communicators Award.
After
six years in Portland, Barry returned in 1995 to his
hometown of Bellingham,
Washington, and formed Hansen
Creative. A pro-bono print campaign and brochure
he created
for United Way of Whatcom County won awards in the
1997 and 1998
United Way of America National Communica-
tions Contests. An annual report he designed for North Coast
Credit Union won a Spectrum Award in 1998.
After five years in Bellingham
and another year in Portland,
Barry relocated in 2001 to Orem, Utah. In 2007 he moved to
Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he serves clients
throughout the
country. He won the
2004 Pearl Award for Album Design
of the Year from the Faith Centered Music Association.
(Besides winning in 2004, Barry's CD covers have been
Pearl Award nominees five years in a row from 2003–2007.)
Barry also enjoys music
and works as a vocal recording artist.
(See barryhansenmusic.com.)
He and his wife Marian are the
parents of eight children. The Hansens are members of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Barry
served a French-speaking mission in Québec from 1983–1984.