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London, United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since
February 5, 2020
Ákos is a senior interactive art director with over 12 years of experience. He focuses on user-centric, immersive and integrated experiences, seasoned with a large pinch of expertise in advertising. He spent the last couple of years exploring the field, creating relevant and performing campaigns and products with a large handful of aesthetics and craft involved to deliver outstanding, engaging work.
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Work Experience
Senior Interactive Designer
2020 - PRESENT
Beyond
- Created my first wearable project for Montblanc, delivering a fully fledged UI and UX for their upcoming smartwatch Summit 2 Lite.
- Redesigned Google's Partner Directory from the ground up, which is a highly valuable asset not only for Google but for thousands of advertisers and agencies.
- Gathered insight for the above projects through large-scale user testing.
Technologies: Digital, Wearables, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Prototyping, Adobe After Effects, Sketch, Figma
Senior Creative Designer
2019 - 2020
Omobono
- Led campaigns and projects created for Accenture’s widely extended market from a creative, more conceptual point of view. This included global campaigns for Accenture Interactive, where I created concepts for future technologies.
- Tackled various branding projects for companies in the tech industry under Omobono's umbrella.
- Created some great motion graphics work to cover some of the campaigns done for Accenture.
Technologies: InVision, Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC
Digital Designer
2017 - 2019
Velocity Partners
- Oversaw digital experiences and products for business clients in the tech industry.
- Worked on large-scale digital projects and campaigns for Sprint US, HubSpot, and Salesforce.
- Helped establish the digital design department of the company by implementing new work methods and processes, and mentoring the junior members of the team.
Technologies: React, Zeplin, InVision, Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC
Art Director
2017 - 2017
Umbrella.tv
- Participated in the process of establishing a new creative department at Umbrella. By doing this, we have enabled the company to develop creative concepts besides its renowned background in movie production.
- Led the rebranding process.
- Worked on nation-wide and global campaigns for T-Mobile, TV2, Ralph Lauren, and Sony.
Technologies: Photography, Videography, Motion Graphics, Adobe CC
Art Director
2014 - 2017
Dentsu Aegis Network
- Tasked with a large portion of the creating, selling, and executing of creative concepts for our clients as the art director in the concept team at Dentsu.
- Took a hands-on approach on many nation-wide and global campaigns for T-Mobile (including Hungarian Telekom).
- Led the concept and execution phase of large scale campaigns for our clients, including: Bunge, Coca-Cola, Burger King, Cisco, Microsoft, Mondelez, and Generali.
- Supervised the work of the design team, including senior designers, and helped juniors to progress.
- Awarded with national and international recognition for many campaigns.
Technologies: Production, Social Media, Photography, Videography, Adobe CC
Co-founder
2012 - 2014
Stimmul org.
- Co-founded the company and took a big part in getting the organization up and running.
- Tackled daily challenges on the marketing and design side of things.
- Created strong brand recognition in the area.
- Received great attention from sponsors relating to our brand.
Technologies: Organization, Adobe CC
Designer
2008 - 2012
Freelance
- Worked on various design projects for agencies in the US and Switzerland.
- Created mainly small web-projects, and branding collaterals.
- Created branding projects for small and mediums sized music festivals.
Technologies: Adobe CC
Education
2012 - 2014
Graduate Coursework in Visual Communication
PCU - Oradea, Romania
2009 - 2012
Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design
PCU - Oradea, Romania
Certifications
JANUARY 2016 - JANUARY 2017
AD Excellence 2016
Deutche Telekom
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