SEAN CALANDRILLO

Professional overview

Sean Calandrillo is an award-winning, AI saavy, Art Director whose work in the healthcare space defines the intersection of neo-modernist aesthetics and high-contrast storytelling. With a career spanning branding, advertising, and digital design, he crafts sophisticated visual narratives that challenge the status quo and elevate creative projects across multiple mediums.

Professional experience includes: acne, angina pectoris, asthma, atopic dermatitis, blood management, chronic heart failure, CRISPR gene editing, diabetes, dyslipidemia, genotype diagnostics, GERD, hemophilia, hypertension (including PAH), hypothyroidism, infectious disease, inflammatory bowel disease, influenza, oncology, orthopedic surgery, osteoarthritis, point of care diagnostics, polycystic kidney disease, radiology, sun damage/skin cancer, sickle cell disease, transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia, and weight loss.

Experience

Broth — Remote

Group Art Lead September 2021 – May 2026

Creative lead in the efficient operation, strategic development, and tactical execution of creative products. Worked closely with clients and agency leadership in acheiving marketing objectives while managing art staff and outside vendors in bringing ideas from concept to creation. Played a lead creative role in guiding art direction, design, photography, animation, and video production on all aspects of professional campaign development for the following clients:

Vertex Pharmaceuticals—Casgevy (US & Global HCP launch)
Pfizer—Vyndamax
Biogen—Qalsody
Melinta Pharmaceuticals—Kimyrsa, Minocin, Vabomere

FCB Cure — Parsippany, NJ

Group Art Supervisor January 2020 – September 2021

Bayer/Merck—Verquvo (launch)
Novo Nordisk—Hemophilia franchise
BMS—Zeposia (launch)

Vice President, Art Supervisor May 2017 – January 2020

Creative lead in the strategic and tactical execution of creative concepts. Worked closely with clients and agency leadership while managing art staff and outside vendors in bringing ideas from concept to creation. Played a lead creative role in guiding art direction, design, photography, animation, and video production on all aspects of professional campaign development for the following clients:

Takeda Pharmaceuticals—Ninlaro
Merck/EMD Serono—DDR Platform
Verastem Oncology—Copiktra (launch)
Otsuka Pharmaceuticals—Jynarque

CDM New York — New York, NY

Art Supervisor January 2014 – May 2017

Performed lead role in the strategic and tactical execution of creative concepts. Worked closely with clients and agency leadership while managing art staff and outside vendors in bringing ideas from concept to creation. Played a lead creative role in guiding art direction, design, photography, animation, and video production on all aspects of professional campaign development for the following clients:

Pfizer Consumer Healthcare—Nexium 24HR, Advil, Preparation H, Thermacare

United Therapeutics—Remodulin

Senior Art Director February 2004 – May 2013

Performed lead role in the conception and execution of creative concepts. Managed junior creative staff on all aspects of campaign development and roll out for the following clients:

BD Diagnostics— BD Veritor System
Lineagen—FirstStep DX
Akrimax Pharmaceuticals—NitroMist, Primlev, Suprenza, Tirosint
Graceway Pharmaceuticals—Corporate Branding, Aldara, Atopiclair, Maxair Autohaler
Myriad Genetics—Colaris, BRAC Analysis, Raise the Red Flag
Depuy Mitech—OrthoVisc, Chia, COR
Triax Pharmaceuticals—Tretin-X, Minocin, Locoid Lipocream, and Locoid Lotion
Reliant Pharmaceuticals—DynaCirc CR, Lescol XL, Axid Oral Solution, and Rythmol SR