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Senior Designer - Motion Graphics, Animation, Art Direction

A Fox on a Box ltd
2013-01-01 — 2024-07-17

• Designing and art directing animated content for brand funded digital content/brand identity, case study films, pitch videos
• Treatments for brand videos
• Kinetic Typography, Titles design
• Character design, illustration & animation
• Branding and motion design for broadcast and for corporate events/conferences
• Explain animations/informational videos

Featured Projects:
• NBCUniversal - Marketing campaigns both for in-store, events as well as social media toolkits for activating product collaborations with world renowned franchises such as Jurassic World, Trolls, Despicable Me - Minions, ET amongst others; as well as designing and animating youtube brand funded content.

• Coup 53 - Feature documentary edited and written by Taghi Amirani and the legendary Walter Murch (The English Patient, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation). Opening credits typography treatment + motion graphics elements.

• Natural History Museum - promo trailer for ‘Crime Scene Live’ event

• Silent Witness critically acclaimed crime drama series Opening titles (hero particle animation)

Motion Designer - contract

The Guardian - Digital Agency
2013-04-02 — 2013-05-15

I worked on data visualization/information graphics alongside the in-house digital design team.
My role involved producing assets such as artwork and illustration, story-boarding, and animation according to the requirements of the brief.

Motion Designer - contract

Bloomberg LLP
2012-02-01 — 2012-12-20

- Designing opening titles for programmes and branding elements for special news coverages and packages
- Working on long form data visualisation graphics for broadcast and digital
- Coming up with ideas for promos, developing and executing them
- Managing the projects from start to finish, whilst ensuring tight deadlines are met

Motion Designer

FMG GROUP / BORN
2009-11-01 — 2012-02-01

- I was responsible for the creation and execution of production projects throughout their life-cycle
- Working closely with the Head of Video, Senior Designer and Producers to deliver brand-funded communications, business to business animated films, pitch films, awards submissions, adverts and title sequences.
- Coming up with original concepts, designs and animations to illustrate the requirements of the brief in the most effective way.
- Delegating and overseeing these responsibilities to Freelance resource when needed.

Live Graphics Motion Designer

Spotted Zebra
2009-03-01 — 2009-10-30

In this role I utilised mainly vizrt software to design real time graphics for TV.
I worked on the re-branding of Bloomberg UK TV channel:
- taking part to the development of the new look, re-designing all the live graphics, designing the layouts, building the animations and the templates following the new style guidelines
- working closely with their in-house design team in order to keep a consistent look for all graphics

Art Director

Headvertising
2008-03-01 — 2009-01-20

In this role I worked on various projects, mainly on print campaigns. My duties included:
- coming up with ideas for visuals developing concepts and designing layouts for posters, brochures, press ads, brand identity projects, corporate literature;
- working closely with the copywriters; collaborating with illustrators, web developers and photographers;
- liasing with the client service, desktop publishing and the production departments.

Assistant Designer / Designer

Al Jazeera English TV
2006-01-12 — 2008-01-14

I worked as a member of the core design team and helped see through the launch of the channel.
Pre-launch I participated to the development of the brand identity of the channel by working on information graphics, template graphics, and other specific graphics for programmes, establishing the look of certain programmes within their own style.
Post-launch I had to work towards the newly established design values, as well as improving the established style guide. I worked on graphics for promos as well, liaising with the promo
producers, and apart from the daily news graphics I also designed opening titles for special news coverages and for special programme features.

Junior Designer

Aliria Net
2003-10-14 — 2004-09-25

In this role I learnt about the workings of a graphic design studio and the process of working with clients. My duties included: creating layouts for web sites alongside the web developer, working on layouts for print: brochures, posters, flyers, labels, retouching photos.