About Burning Settlers Cabin

Q: What is Burning Settlers Cabin? Is anyone in danger

Burning Settlers Cabin is an online publication founded by Sean Adams in 2008. The goal at Burning Settlers Cabin is simple; find great design and culture from the past to the present, and share it with no pretense. The ideas and images may be hot, but fear not, there are no settlers on fire.

All images are owned and © by the respective holders and are presented here for educational purposes within the “fair use” terms of US Code: title 17, sec. 107. No paid promotion or advertising is used at the cabin.

To contact Sean or one of the settlers, go here.

Work produced between 1994 to 2013 was designed at AdamsMorioka: Noreen Morioka, Monica Schlaug, Terry Stone, Volker Dürre, Christopher Taillon, Nathan Stock, Scott Meisse, and many more incredible designers and strategists.

Sean Adams Biography

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Sean Adams, Art Center College of Design:
Sean Adams is the Dean of Art and Communication at ArtCenter College of Design. He is the author of nine books, including The Designer’s Dictionary of Color and How Design Makes Us Think. Adams is an on-screen instructor for LinkedIn Learning, Domestika, and Adobe. He is the only two-term AIGA national president in AIGA’s history. In 2014, Adams was awarded the AIGA Medal. Previously, Adams was a founding partner of AdamsMorioka

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Sean Adams, Art Center College of Design
Sean Adams is the Dean of Art and Communication at ArtCenter College of Design. He is the author of nine books, including The Designer’s Dictionary of Color and How Design Makes Us Think. Adams is an on-screen instructor for LinkedIn Learning, Domestika, Adobe, and a contributor to Design Observer. He is the only two-term AIGA national president in AIGA’s history. In 2014, Adams was awarded the AIGA Medal. Previously, Adams was a founding partner of AdamsMorioka. His client list includes The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Adobe, Disney, Gap, The Metropolitan Opera, the Museum of Natural History, Nickelodeon, Sundance, and the University of Southern California.

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Sean Adams, Art Center College of Design
Sean Adams is the Dean of Art and Communication at ArtCenter College of Design. He is the author of nine books, including The Designer’s Dictionary of Color and How Design Makes Us Think. Adams is an on-screen instructor for LinkedIn Learning, Domestika, Adobe and a contributor to Design Observer. He is the only two-term AIGA national president in AIGA’s history. In 2014, Adams was awarded the AIGA Medal. Previously, Adams was a founding partner of AdamsMorioka

Adams is an AIGA Fellow and an Aspen Design Institute Fellow. He has been recognized by every major competition and publication, including Print, Communication Arts, Graphis, AIGA, The Type Directors Club, The British Art Director’s Club, and the New York Art Director’s Club. Adams has been exhibited often, including a solo exhibition at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has been cited as one of the forty most important people shaping design internationally and one of the top ten influential designers in the United States. Previously, Adams was a founding partner at AdamsMorioka. 

His client list includes: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Adobe, Disney, Gap, The Metropolitan Opera, the Museum of Natural History, Nickelodeon, Sundance, and the University of Southern California.

Headshots

Please credit photograph by Blake Little.
To use this image in a magazine or book, email us for higher resolution artwork. This photo is free to use on any blog and in any magazine or other publication. The images here are 72dpi, RGB.

This is Sean Adams. It is a photograph by Blake Little who typically shoots incredibly beautiful celebrities and flawless people. The image here is an example of his incredible skill. Sean does not look like this in person. Don’t be alarmed when you meet him.