Chris Pollard Email & Phone Number

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Freelance design consultant with experience working within luxury fashion, lifestyle, education and the building and engineering trade. Predominantly undertaking Senior Graphic Design & Art Direction projects, I have a clear understanding of the importance of brand identity design across both print and digital.Clients (Past & Present)• Hackett• Ralph Lauren• H.Huntsman• V&A Museum X Savile Row Bespoke• Harrys of London• Shaftesbury Building Co.• BIMM (British and Irish Modern Music Institute)• Institute for Contemporary Theatre • Screen & Film SchoolPhotography Clients (Past & Present)• Smythsons of Bond Street• Turnbull & Asser ( Collabs: Floris & Getty)• Rake Magazine• Lomography• London Fashion Week Mens & Womens Catwalks (Please inquire for brand list)• Positive Luxury Galleries & Exhibitions:• 2016 - 'Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64' (Group) - Lomo Soho Gallery Store - London• 2015 - 'PETZVAL IN ALL ITS GLORY' (Solo) - Lomography Soho Gallery Store - London UK Published or Featured in:• Royal Photographic Society Journal (Magazine)• Penhaligon's Times (Magazine)• Lomography Daguerreotype Art lens - Published 2016 (Book)• Lomography Petzval Art lens - Published 2015 (Book)Competitions & Awards:• 2017 - Knomo x Microsoft Surface UK - Overall Winner• 2020 - Shackleton London x Leica: Capture the Extreme - Landscape Category Winner

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Surrey

I lead a small but efficient team of 3 designers (from Junior to Senior) working across both print and digital projects at an exciting time of growth. As well as overseeing the workflow and ensuring we operate collaboratively, I am hands on creatively, translating briefs from marketing, ecom, In-store and paid social into dynamic brand appropriate artworks.

London, United Kingdom

Based within the marketing team at Europe's largest surf, snow and skate eCom store. I worked as an In-house designer creating artworks across all TLD's: .com/.fr/.de/.pt/.es/.us/.ieBAU artwork production:• Landing page theme & design• Banners, mailers, GDN, Social Media asset production• Brand activations/hub pages• S3 uploading + HTML & YMAL coding.• Print projectsPhotography:• Product & lifestyle photographer aiding with art direction and QC• Seasonal campaign image editing and post production• Planning and briefing concepts for studio• Special projects - set building, lighting

London, United Kingdom

• Short term Lead Graphic Designer• Design support for: product development, sales, marketing, retail and E-commerce• Upholding brand identity, consistency and company information design• Art direction for AW16 lookbook photoshoot

London, United Kingdom

• EU Visual Merchandising & Presentation team designer• Multi-disciplinary in-house creative spanning 9 seasons• Brand-led collateral production (both print & digital) • Art direction and in-house studio shooting for seasonal directives• iPad app artworker for EU RL digital development team

Supporting the RL EU Merchandising Graphic Design Manager

London, United Kingdom

V&A Museum Showcase - 'Below the Row' was an interactive pop-up event encouraging interest and understanding of bespoke tailoring and British luxury. (Part of 'Friday Late' series)

Bachelor'S Degree, Fashion Promotion & Imaging, First Class Hons

Btec National Diploma, Art & Design - Visual Communication, Distinction

11 Gcse'S Between A&C (Maths/English/Science/Media Etc)