I'm a senior multi-disciplinary designer doing digital, print, motion & video or events. I’ve worked in-house, agency-side, and direct-to-client and I’m comfortable with each of these. I routinely use all the major Adobe packages; Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects and Audition on anything from a simple business card to large format event graphics, infographics, editing video and creating motion graphics. I have extensive WordPress experience, and frequently contribute to writing pitch documents and script content. I manage the social channels on a side project I work on, and this means keeping abreast of social and digital marketing trends, with large amounts of retouched imagery and short-form video creation, and more recently utilising AI and Augmented Reality. DJs in the UK and Internationally, putting on the sell-out Lost In Disco events in London and Brighton http://lostindisco.com and acts as promoter with The Sheen Resistance. Presents the monthly Lost In Disco show on Music Box Radio, and DJs corporate events. Corporate literature design Digital design Event & experiential design Publishing & magazine design Web design (front end) SEO Social Media Email marketing Pitch concepts, visuals and documents PowerPoint & Keynote Enthusiastic, flexible and practical. Keen to continue learning new disciplines & techniques.
Senior Integrated design and creative on the Barclays CRES account. Design, creative direction and project management on a range of digital, print, and event-driven projects. Everything from basic print graphics, to designing internal web space, writing video scripts, editing, animation and motion graphics and voiceovers.
Rolling contract role as designer on all output of Smart Live; pitch documents, event concepts, and development of concepts through to finished artwork – from small print items to large format, video and screen graphics.
Responsible for the design & production of on- and off-line marketing materials for the DreamWorks Channel – a new DreamWorks premium cable TV venture initially aimed at Asia – and DreamWorks Distribution.
My role here was to grow Publicom's in-house design facility, expand the digital offering, and make the company a cutting-edge content creation and delivery agency. Day to day duties as art director & designer on a variety of B2B and customer magazines and associated marketing collateral, including website design & asset creation, and Manager Magazine which was won in a competitive pitch and went on to win a MemCom award for best business magazine.
Senior creative in another top ten experiential agency. Concepts through to finished artwork on projects for household name clients, from stage sets, screen graphics, exhibitions and digital publishing.
A long-term freelance position, at Blue I was responsible for coming up with concepts for a huge variety of conference, video and general marketing projects, and delivering through to the final end product. On any given week I may have been designing sets, exhibition stands, conceiving & storyboarding video, or producing print artwork.
I oversaw the growth and design of two successful b2b magazine titles, alongside the initial creative direction of a long-running industry event.
My trading entity for projects outside any full-time or contracted employment. Freelanced on a variety of disciplines and projects for an extensive range of clients, including Mencap, Archant Life, 90TEN Healthcare, Just::Health Communications, General Motors, Sony BMG, Universal, Glaxo SmithKline, BT and many more. An experienced, reliable resource for agencies & production companies.
Various design and visualising duties on experiential projects for blue chip clients.