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Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Location
London, United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since
May 25, 2020
Mark is a senior creative with expertise in digital product design, illustration, and print. With a decade of industry experience—freelance, agency, and in-house—his background spans website strategy and design, TV user interfaces, app design and production, exhibition curation, packaging, marketing collateral, advertising campaigns, illustration, brand identity, art direction, and print and digital publications for major brands.
Work Experience
Senior/Lead Creative of Product and UX/UI Design
2017 - PRESENT
MLG Creative Ltd
- Designed and aided the launch of an AI chatbot for a well-known antivirus software company.
- Delivered digital product designs for clients across multiple touchpoints, including TV, web, and app.
- Provided website UI/UX designs for high-profile clients in multiple sectors.
- Provided UI/UX solutions for mental health-based app Companion, company website, social media, and marketing collateral templates.
- Led a UK digital marketing company's brand design, creation, and implementation.
- Developed print and publication designs for small to midsize businesses.
- Crafted marketing illustrations for a London-based fast-food chain.
- Created the digital product design for the pension provider Penfold.
- Provided UI/UX solutions for desktop and mobile devices.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, InVision, Zeplin, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Figma, Sketch
Senior Visual Designer
2019 - 2019
Class 35
- Implemented a digital brand across UI designs for a leading bank.
- Developed the UX/UI design for an online merchant platform.
- Created a design system to work across web and mobile products.
Technologies: Overflow, Abstracts, Zeplin, InVision, Sketch
Senior Visual Designer
2018 - 2019
RGA
- Worked in-house with Magic Leap, a Miami startup, to fulfill design and marketing needs.
- Created physical and digital graphics for a high-profile product launch conference.
- Provided concepts and designs for online marketing campaigns.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, Zeplin, InVision, Sketch
Senior Product Designer
2017 - 2018
Sky
- Designed a platform that enabled users of Sky TV to check bills on their TV set-top boxes.
- Developed several journeys to help customers upgrade their TV packages easily on their set-top boxes.
- Collaborated with product owners, developers, and stakeholders to ensure delivery of solutions on time, on budget, and on brief.
- Contributed from concept to delivery and user testing on a multitude of projects.
- Created concepts for chatbots and voice recognition software.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, Zeplin, InVision, Sketch
Senior Product Designer
2014 - 2017
W12 Studios
- Designed a TV, web, and iOS application and UX/UI for Verizon, a major US telecommunications company.
- Created and delivered the UX/UI design of an iOS and Android app for NOS TV, a Portugese telecommunications company.
- Co-developed the design system and UI for the overall design and delivery of a new website for Red Bull, the energy drink that has the highest market share in its category.
- Worked in-house to deliver the iOS design for Shazam, a music discovery app.
- Developed and implemented digital brands for numerous TV, web, and app products.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, Zeplin, InVision, Sketch
Graphic Designer
2012 - 2014
Hamilton Bradshaw
- Collaborated on design projects with James Caan, one of the UK's top entrepreneurs.
- Designed the UI for James Caan's Business Secrets, an iOS and Android app. with over 260,000 regular users and more than 500,000 downloads.
- Developed marketing collateral for James Caan's business.
- Designed branding and websites for a multitude of startups.
- Created print, publication, and email designs for internal communications.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Graphic Designer
2011 - 2012
DC Group
- Developed marketing campaigns for two of the UK's top universities.
- Created print and publication designs.
- Designed digital marketing campaigns and brand implementations.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Junior Designer
2010 - 2010
Bluestone 360
- Created designs for online marketing campaigns.
- Designed packaging for several FMCG clients.
- Created designs and artwork for print and publication.
- Developed a social media strategy and minisite for Um Bongo, a juice beverage brand.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite
Education
2006 - 2009
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Degree in Graphic Design and Production
Plymouth College of Art - Plymouth, UK
2005 - 2006
University of Arts London (UAL) Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
Plymouth College of Art - Plymouth, UK
Experience
Collaboration That Works
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