William Melancon
BFA 2016, Graphic Design
Art
William Melancon is a Washington, D.C.-based graphic designer currently working as a lead visual technologist at Booz Allen. As the visual design lead, he creates infographics, charts, and other data visualizations as a part of Booz Allen’s growth team and support BAHs outreach and strategic efforts. Most of his current work involves data heavy designs, but occasionally he gets to do illustration, video work, and animation. He also does freelance work through the T-Box Design LLC.
He was born in Decatur Georgia, and subsequently raised in Southern Louisiana. His first design work came when he was deployed to Afghanistan as an Marine rifleman assigned to First Battalion, Third Marines. In addition to my regular duties, he created diagrams, maps, and other graphics. After he completed my time as an active-duty Marine he enrolled as a student at Louisiana State University, where he received a degree in graphic design. During and immediately after college he worked as a freelance grip and post motion designer in the TV commercial industry in Louisiana and was eventually hired full time at Vidox Motion Imagery, where he did motion design, animation, and set work.
In 2018 he was hired as the visual designer by the Peterson Institute, a Washington, D.C. based economics think tank currently ranked by prospect as the best financial think tank in the world. Since then, he has been especially active creating graphics about the US / China trade war, the USMCA, and the COVID-19 pandemic. His graphics have been featured everywhere from the New York Times to Brazilian textbooks to the World Economic Forum in Davos. While in DC, he has been honored with awards from Prospect Magazine and the American Advertising Federation; and look forward to creating award winning, functional, and ground-breaking design for years to come.