Scott Ballum

Founder/Director, Sheepless Co.

Scott Ballum is a writer, designer, entrepreneur and sustainable small business advocate. He is the founder of the media collaborative Sheepless Co., and the web-based magazine Sheepless.org.

Scott is recognized for writing on the intersection of creativity and social responsibility as it applies to design, consumerism, and entrepreneurship. He is a contributing writer to The Huffington Post and PSFK, and his editorial work has recently been featured in Objects-Journal of Applied Arts (Germany), LINO Magazine (Australia), Resurgence (UK), and ChangeThis.com.

In 2005, Scott created ConsumeRevolution, a self-published magazine exposing a growing complacency with globalization and consumerism and offering viable alternatives to a “mass-produced” lifestyle. In 2008, he pushed the idea further with the ConsumeReconnection Project, a year-long online journal about his efforts to meet the laborers and craftsmen who made everything he bought, with a focus on traceability, buying local, and conscious consumption. These endeavors have been featured in GOOD Magazine, Adbusters, Resurgence (UK), Step Inside Design, and All Things Considered on NPR, among others.

Other media projects include work for the Art Directors Club, School of Visual Arts, Parrish Art Museum, MIX Film Festival, and the Brooklyn Food Coalition. Scott was previously a Senior Designer at C&G Partners–creating identity projects for Signature Theatre Company and Alhurra Television Network, among others–and Design Director for Housing Works, Inc. Scott has received design awards from the Art Directors Club, GD USA, and the School of Visual Arts, and was honored in AllDayBuffet's inaugural NewYork100.

He is a proud and active alumnus of SVA, and member of Common Spaces and The Bakery. Scott splits his time between Brooklyn, NY, and San Diego, CA.