Andy Budd Email & Phone Number

Newport, Wales, United Kingdom

I lead the Graphic Design profession in ONS and the communications design and video team. The work covers three core strands: brand improvement, design support and design outputs. These feed into the ONS communications strategy ‘to provide accessible outputs to engage the public in the UKs most important statistics in the most inclusive and innovative way.’ Helping to deliver ‘Statistics for the public good’.My team design products and provide creative consultation for the ONS, UK Statistics Authority, Office for Statistics Regulation, Government Statistical Service, Data Science Campus and Integrated Data Service. We provide design support across the organisation in a multidisciplinary capacity working closely with Campaigns, Publishing, Strategic Comms, Media, Surveys and the Director General Comms Leads.Achievements:• Establishing the ONS communications design and video service from two separate design teams, delivering over 700 successful projects to date.• Building the video service for 2023, recruiting the team, budget planning, process and equipment to deliver work at pace to a high standard.• Overseeing the first ONS media release video produced using market sensitive pre-release data and 10 full productions in the first 9 months.• Contributing to the development of comms accessibility principles for ONS.• Leading the design of the Census 2021 brand identity and over 700 in-house products designed over 12 months, overseeing materials with print runs of over 20 million copies in 85 different languages.• Creative consultation on the IPA Bronze Effectiveness Award winning Census 2021 campaign developed by M&C Saatchi - ensuring every type of product was designed to be accessible, useful, and reflective of the Census and ONS brand.• Leading work on the ONS brand guidelines and the Census 2021 brand guidelines. • Aligning design roles to DDaT profession and running annual career progression for the team.

Newport, United Kingdom

I established a high performing brand and print design service. We delivered essential projects for the ONS and the UK Statistics Authority applying graphic design expertise to products to meet strategic objectives.Highlights included: the Annual Report, ONS Strategy, Social Surveys Transformation and Census 2019 Rehearsal letters. The work was multidisciplinary, in partnership with user research, behavioural insight, content design, interaction design and data visualisation.I contributed to a design community of practice through which we promoted good design principles to the wider organisation and externally through blog writing and cross government design community meet-ups.Responsibilities include: line management, establishing design service workflow, project management and graphic design (occasionally!).

Swansea

Specialising in identity design, I worked in a multi-disciplinary capacity taking on all design tasks that the team required. I collaborated daily with the creative director, developer, marketing strategist, copywriter and photographer to work on a diverse range of print and digital projects across products, services, events and campaigns. Working with 40 companies over five years (including Scouts Wales, SBM Offshore, IAG, Swansea University) I delivered high quality designs to meet strategic objectives. James Good gained a track record of producing results including rebranding, brand strategy, raising profiles, delivering leads and executing quality digital and print products. It was a privilege to be a member of this team.Responsibilities included: understanding client requirements, estimating and quoting work, problem solving, prototyping, presenting designs to stakeholders and managing print production. During my time I also proudly mentored four brilliant Team UK Worldskills web design entrants for 2016 and 2017 www.worldskillsuk.org.

Headed up a busy in-house creative team of three producing high quality print and web campaigns for Leekes, The Vale Resort and Hensol Castle Park. In addition to designing the role demanded; the management of work-flow through the studio, delegation of key tasks to ensure deadlines were met within budget, mentoring of junior design staff, ordering and maintaining of printer stocks and stationary, overseeing of external print jobs and negotiating print costs with suppliers. Achievements included the production of Leekes brand guidelines for 2010 and implementing cost saving print processes for point of sale.

Produced print and web artwork taking a creative lead on projects, content management, proofing and setting up documents for print. Worked on e-learning projects for BBC, UFI, Basic Skills Agency and ACCAC (Now DELLS).