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Cape Town Area, South Africa

During my tenure at Hello, it has been Adfocus Awards top digital agency for three years running. My role as senior designer has been the design and iteration of concept work and content creation for their esteemed client base as well as, in particular, bridging the gap between the motion and design departments, art direction as well as overseeing and guidance of the more junior members of the creative team. With a no job too big or too small attitude, my touch points go from the iteration of a simple pin post to the conception of and roll out of multi-platform through-the-line campaigns. I work closely with the motion team ensuring cohesive storyboarding, design, flow and timing of the concept as well as quality control and art direction of both 2D and 3D assets. Additionally, one of my major responsibilities is the overseeing and skill sharing of more junior members of the team and making sure the high standard that Hello is known for is maintained and pushed. It is impossible to wear only one hat in such a small boutique agency so very often my touch points range from action and consultation across the whole studio.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

My role at Strika have presented a formidable range of design areas from traditionalprint advertising, serialised comics, corporate communications and in practice, my role has been integral from concept,strategy, pitch, execution, rollout, delivery and design,animation, motion graphics, ux, ui, layout, art direction,critique & client liason. As a senior creative, my roles have included graphic design for almost very aspect of the business, from work on a serialised comic, corporate communications, various social media and advertising platforms, both print and digital and the administration and art direction of a small team of graphic designers.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

My roles at iKineo have been very diverse, it being aboutique, award winning, small & strategically ledagency; design challenges for me have beenexpressed a formidable range of areas from traditionalprint advertising, responsive web & mobile based platformdesigns to interactive and mixed media windowdisplays & installations.In practice, my role has been integral from concept,strategy, pitch, execution, rollout, delivery, design,animation, motion graphics, ux, ui, layout, art direction,critique & client liason. As a senior creative & theonly animator, I have been involved in many projectsin a multidisciplinary & thorough way. Notablythrough time I became a mobile and tablet ux, design,and art director specialist.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

My brief but happy time at Liquorice as a digitaldesigner soon lent my hand to the development ofnew identities, becoming brand custodian of longheld clients & taking on some of the more complexcompositing jobs that

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

A year long stint at Aqua that placed me in a team thatfocused primarily on UX and the mobile experience. Itwas here that I got intimate knowledge of what it liketo work in a large agency with well known brands, &with very tight deadlines. This was paired with learningthe craft of user experience and interface design,as well as demonstrated competence in the rollout ofother artists work, art direction and concept work forother teams to execute.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

You & Me was a small digital agency where a designerwas asked to do everything, & as a result, of valuableexperience where I cut my teeth with the basics ofHTML, CSS & Java Script, the intimacies of designingfor digital and intricacies and iterative design. I verysoon outgrew my initial role and pushed for motionwork , outgowing this and after a year took a higherposition at Aqua Online.

Master Of Arts In Dramatic Arts, Animation, First Class

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Fine And Studio Arts

Certificate Of English Language Teaching For Adults, Education