Max Burnside
Verified Expert in Engineering
Audio Production Developer
Max is an experienced designer, illustrator, animator, and front-end web developer with experience in startups and B2B companies. His clients include Facebook, Nike, RocNation, and John Frieda. He is a skilled developer and a capable communicator, and prides himself on employing his high standards for quality in design to bring his clients' visions to life.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Adobe Illustrator
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed and created is a custom icon font library.
Work Experience
Founder
AnchorPint
- Designed branding for AnchorPint.
- Created video tutorials.
- Created design resources.
- Implemented an eCommerce solution.
- Developed a responsive site using SASS.
Interaction Designer/Front-End Developer
Freelance
- Created a custom animation series for a community library.
- Created a brand for a music website that is part of Hype Machine.
- Taught an online course on the topics of icon creation, illustration, and animation.
- Created a promotional video for a Costa Rican resort.
- Illustrated mechanical timepieces for an independent watch company.
- Created marketing materials for Nike Sports camps.
Lead Interaction Designer
Viewabill
- Designed and developed the front-end for a web app for lawyer billing company Aleter.
- Redesigned brand identity.
- Created custom illustrations for the marketing site.
- Optimized page load speed and compression of assets.
- Assisted company leaders during acquisition process in providing brand materials for future iteration of the company.
Interaction Designer
LISNR
- Helped re-brand the company with a new color palette, logo, font-face, and style guide.
- Wrote, directed, narrated, and edited a promotional video for a global financial institution.
- Designed a mobile application for a world-renowned fashion brand.
- Converted the company to using SVG for all websites' visual assets to ensure speed and scalability for mobile viewers.
- Created a suite of vector illustrations, infographics, one-pagers, and press materials.
Experience
Animations
AnchorPint
Skills
Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Word, Apple Keynote, Adobe CC, TextWrangler, TextMate, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Sketch, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe After Effects
Other
User Interface (UI), Design, Writing & Editing, Microsoft 365, SVG, Icon Design, Typography, Illustration, Audio Production, Audio Processing, Video Editing, Data Visualization, Videos, Animation, Infographics, Kirby
Languages
CSS, HTML, Haml, Sass, JavaScript
Frameworks
Bootstrap 3
Paradigms
UX Design, Visual Design, Motion Design, UI Design
Industry Expertise
Web Design
Libraries/APIs
jQuery
Platforms
Web
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Technical Writing
Miami University - Ohio
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