Rob Ryan Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

Diverge is a boutique consultancy, comprising a dynamic team of entrepreneurial divergent thinkers, poised to revolutionise your approach to projects and ventures.

London, United Kingdom

CEO & Founder

As Harvest Digital’s Creative Director, I see design as a way of telling a story. It describes the experience I’m about to create, as well as the significance that the design may have for someone else.’Rob studied graphic design at Falmouth college of Art. In 1999 Rob joined The Daily telegraph to apply his design/branding skills and from here moved on to Conchango in 2001, then on to TwentySix London in 2005. Rob joined Harvest Digital in March 2007 as creative director.He has won a string of awards for his work including ‘Best retail site’, ‘Best airline site’ and Best financial site’.Skills:• Motivated, personable and highly confident creative• Nine years’ experience in design, branding and digital marketing• Strong creative instinct mixed with technical proficiency• Great collaborator and team leader• Ability to work to strict deadlines and financial controls without compromising creativity• Manages creative teams and maintains creative standards across agency• Works closely with planners and brand consultants • Good record in planning and delivering complex creative and technical products• Experience developing needs assessments, scopes of work and cost models for creative services• Attracts, recruits and retains highly skilled creative talentSpecialtiesGraphic Design - Creative/Art Direction - Web Design - Project management and leadership - Online brand creation and integration - E-commerce - Digital Marketing - Idea Engineer - DR digital marketing - User experience - Social media - Kiosk - Mobile site design - Content strategies - Design strategy - Emotional design

As Art Director I oversaw the creative process for the RBS account whichcomprises of RBS.co.uk (2007), NatWest.com (2006), Ulster bank and MINT.co.uk (2006/07). A major part of my role was to communicate with the clients to establish a constant understanding of their needs. Art Directed the new proposition for The John Lewis Partnership, Greenbee (2006), sat on the 'greenbee steering committee for the new online brand, also creating dialogue with above the line agencies to create a seamless overall creative approach. Lead creative for the Kaiser chiefs (2007). Primarily working in Retail, FMCG and Financial sectors. Created the branding for the Sportingbet intranet and the overall design system; this also include the Corporate site. B2B channels for Media Square, Armour Group and Ryder Reid. Email designs for Black & Decker, Vodafone. Became acting Creative Director for 5 months.

Senior designer working for top companies within the financial, Retail and FMCG sectors, responsible for leading projects for Virgin Atlantic.com (2005 Best airline site Travel mole), Nectar.com (Winner of Best Retail Site at The 2004 BIMA Awards) Marks & Spencer, Lloyds of London (2005), Virgin Mobile (2005), Deloitte & Touche, HBOS and JP Morgan (2005) and intranet for Britvic Soft Drinks Ltd.Responsibilities included;Design and implementation of corporate intranet and internet sitesDesign and implementation of a wide range of printed materialsCreative leadership on a wide variety of accounts, leading teams through the design process

Display advertising & interface designer for the 'Electronic Telegraph'

Ba Graphic Design, Specialising In Brand Design

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