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Oxfordshire

Creative Director at independent experience, design and architecture agency. Current projects include 2 and 3d strategy and design consulting for Kia Motors, Volvo Global and UK experience, retail and internal comms projects, Lexus Europe digital, POS, guidelines, Infinitiinternal comms, Minoli marketing and advertising, Kawasaki Motorcycles experiencecomms, Nissan's LEAF launch communications, new business development and own-brand development and marketing communications… Show more Creative Director at independent experience, design and architecture agency. Current projects include 2 and 3d strategy and design consulting for Kia Motors, Volvo Global and UK experience, retail and internal comms projects, Lexus Europe digital, POS, guidelines, Infinitiinternal comms, Minoli marketing and advertising, Kawasaki Motorcycles experiencecomms, Nissan's LEAF launch communications, new business development and own-brand development and marketing communications. Recent freelance work for signageand wayfinding concepts for projects in Middle East, India and China. Responsibilities include communication and design strategy, creative and artdirection, client liaison, project development and marketing (including businessdevelopment), freelance resourcing and management, digital and print production, ITand software support. New skills acquired include Flash Catalyst, Interaction in InDesign CS5, Wordpressand HTML development. Show less

Freelance design services including signage and wayfinding design, identity programmes, packaging and idea, npd and proposition development.

Summer 2010 - Autumn 2006 Beginning at Board-level Communications Consultant before moving to CreativeDirector at the Lloyd Northover London office. Responsibility for creative strategy and design-based specialist 2 & 3d projects for thebusinesses offices in London, Barcelona & Dubai. Projects included the launch of Infiniti Cars in Europe, the relaunch ofLloydNorthover globally, identity and wayfinding for Max Hypermarkets in India,award-winning… Show more Summer 2010 - Autumn 2006 Beginning at Board-level Communications Consultant before moving to CreativeDirector at the Lloyd Northover London office. Responsibility for creative strategy and design-based specialist 2 & 3d projects for thebusinesses offices in London, Barcelona & Dubai. Projects included the launch of Infiniti Cars in Europe, the relaunch ofLloydNorthover globally, identity and wayfinding for Max Hypermarkets in India,award-winning interactive point of sale for Lexus Europe, retail identity for DSG/Comet, numerous identity, signage and wayfinding projects in Saudi Arabia, Muscat,Oman, Dubai and Ajman, consulting and design projects in the UK public sector(School Food Trust, NS&I, Becta, University of Suffolk) and European private sector(CNS Container Port Southampton, MEPC, Mitsubishi Cars, Grifols Pharmaceusticaland JTI Brands). Responsibilities include communication and design strategy and quality, creative andart direction, client liaison, project development and marketing (including businessdevelopment), recruitment, team-building and freelance sourcing and resourcing andmanagement, business development and marketing, supplier sourcing and control. Skills acquired/developed included creative workshopping development andfacilitation, Brand development for public and private sector, Board-level strategicconsultancy, business and new product development skills, signage and wayfindingconsulting, International pitch, management and business techniques Show less

Part Creative Director, part Strategic Consultant, Board Director at the LloydNorthover London office with responsibility for creative strategy and design-based projects at the Barcelona and Dubai officesAlso held consulting and Creative Directorship roles during the tenure.

Publications & articles• Knowledge for the Digital Economy - The changing influence of new media• Marketing Magazine / Brand Republic - Less corporate design• Design Week Voxpop - Legible London• Identity and participation - Demands on brand identity definition and delivery in our"turn towards the visual" (Published at the 2007 BSB Conference on Brands)• The New Collaborators - The future of communications design• Thriving on uncertainty - Taking… Show more Publications & articles• Knowledge for the Digital Economy - The changing influence of new media• Marketing Magazine / Brand Republic - Less corporate design• Design Week Voxpop - Legible London• Identity and participation - Demands on brand identity definition and delivery in our"turn towards the visual" (Published at the 2007 BSB Conference on Brands)• The New Collaborators - The future of communications design• Thriving on uncertainty - Taking advantage of economic circumstances• Dimensions of luxury - Research onto the Russian retail experience• The Dubai dimension - Creating differentiation in emerging Middle East marketsthrough design. Show less

From Senior Designer to Associate, Design Director (2D), Communications Consultant and finally Board Creative Director (2D).Co-launched a new digital design offer (M-two) during the first new media boom.

During the integration of Marketplace into Media Square, for a short time we became banc, working under thier brand and sharing projects from the London office.