Ákos Sándor, Designer in London, United Kingdom
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Ákos Sándor

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Location
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.

Portfolio

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
2012 - 2014

Graduate Coursework in Visual Communication

PCU - Oradea, Romania

2009 - 2012

Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design

PCU - Oradea, Romania

JANUARY 2016 - JANUARY 2017

AD Excellence 2016

Deutche Telekom

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