Sean Catangui is a designer, developer and creative director. He currently works at The New York Times, producing award-winning interactive stories.

He also helps run Chinatown Basketball Club (CBC), a pickup basketball community and art collective.

Skills

  • Front-end development
  • Editorial design
  • Brand identity
  • Apparel design
  • Web design
  • Generative art

4. America’s Monster

An interactive introduction conveying the scale and emotional weight of an investigation in Afghanistan, coded with WebGL to render images from the database in a scroll-based animation. Designed with Rumsey Taylor and Leo Dominguez.

Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, 2024

5. Where is the Pass Going?

Pitched and developed a quiz that pauses NBA highlights before the climax of offensive action to test how well readers can read an NBA defense. Written with Khris Rhim.

Award of Excellence, Society for News Design, 2023

Teaching

  • Parsons School of Design
  • New York University
  • Rutgers University

Press

  • AIGA Eye on Design
  • Kinopio: Creative Tech Talk
  • Overseas Magazine

Writing

Awards

  • Gold Cube, Art Directors Club, 2024
  • Award of Excellence, Society for News Design, 2022, 2023
  • Event coverage excellence, AP Sports Editors, 2023

Education

  • UNC Chapel Hill – BA Mathematics
  • School for Poetic Computation (2018)
Sean Catangui