James Symonds Email & Phone Number

East Sussex, England, United Kingdom

Symian provides design and creative consultancy for corporate, commercial and community based clients - finding original solutions for one off projects, or providing continued support for business and enterprise.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS• Created the ‘Obelós’ ash casket, and developed the product for mass market in partnership with Oasis Coffins. The Obelós is currently distributed through the Co-operative Funeralcare and was exhibited at New Designers 2023.• Created the official ‘Looking Glass’ music video for Daphne Guinness with photographer Etienne Gilfillan. Part of the promotional release of the ‘Revelations’ album in 2020.• Developed the visual narrative and toured with ‘Degenerate Music - The Show’: a re-imaging the infamous Entartete Musik exhibition of 1938, exploring the cultural censorship enforced by the Nazi regime. Performed in the UK and Europe with Peter Brathwaite and Nigel Foster.• Development, production and installation of the Reflections® video mapped animated window display units for the Co-operative Funeralcare.• Collaborated with Carlos Acosta and Ahh.... Arts Igniting Minds to provide audio and moving image for ‘Premieres’ and ‘Premieres Plus’ at the London Coliseum and The Lowry, Manchester.

Bexhill-On-Sea, East Sussex

ESSPA offers training in all aspects of theatre arts, providing children and young adults a friendly and encouraging environment in which to learn vocational techniques from highly qualified staff. Every year the school stages a musical production at the De La Warr pavilion, giving the students a chance to perform in a professional setting. I have been fortunate enough to be involved for the last 15 years, providing branding, marketing and production design. Past shows inculde...• Roger's and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella' (2012)• 'Peter Pan' (2012)• 'Alice' - a musical adaptation of Lewis Carrol's classic 'Alice In Wonderland' (2011)• Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast (2010)• 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' (2009)• 'Legend' (2008)• 'Honk!' (2007)• 'The Wizard Of Oz' (2006)

London / Cambridgeshire

Founder and Creative Director of Turner & Symonds Ltd. Originally conceived as an outsourcing facility for Credit Suisse, our small creative firm offered advanced desk top publishing, illustration andadministration support for the their UK, European, Asian and American markets.After several years the company began to expand its client base, providing graphic design, exhibition display, branding and creative direction for clients including J C Atkinson, Forester and the Cooperative Group.

London, United Kingdom

Creating in-store artwork and branding in London flagship stores, selected wholesale accounts in the UK and various European trade shows. Projects include....• Range Release @ The Mambo Showroom (New Kings Road, London)• FAO @ London Fashion Week (Truman Brewery, London)• Mambo Stand @ Pitti Imaginere (The Old Fort, Florence, Italy)• Mambo Stand @ Soltex (GNEC, Manchester)• Mambo Stores in Carnaby Street, Shelton Street and the N1 Shopping Centre• Mambo Franchise (Zurich, Switzerland)• Legends (Southhampton & Exscape, Leeds)

Furniture Design And Cabinet Making

Master Of Arts - Ma, Graphic Moving Image, Distinction

National Dipolma, Sound Design, Distinction

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Joint Honours: Sculpture And Metalwork, 2:1