CV Portfolio - March 2019

DAN PINN ME AND MY WORK

CONTENTS 1 Contents 2 Hello 3-4 Employment 5-6 Education, Experience and more 7-8 WAI Site Templates 9-10 Hamiltons Valeting Branding 11-12 EE & BT 13-14 Seafish Tender 15-16 Illustrations Contact details on back page. 1

HELLO I’m a proud Devonian (who always puts the cream first on his scone) with a life long passion and enthusiasm for art and design. I am creative thinker with strong design skills across digital and print. Happy, positive work ethic with a fearless attitude to developing new skills. With over 20 years industry experience in both agency and in-house based roles. 2

EMPLOYMENT DIGITAL DESIGNER Mortgage Brain - 2018-Present Main responsible was to bring UX and UI knowledge, skills that were missing from the marketing team. To modernize and improve the B2C web templates used by our sales team. To work on a new design and better user experience for the main Mortgage Brain website. Design and build email campaigns for the variety of services and products that Mortgage Brain provides. Additionally I also produce all the marketing artwork for print, ranging from A5 leaflets to brochures right up to exhibition stands. DIGITAL DESIGNER Citizen Communication - 2016-2018 Primarily responsible for the UX and UI design within a digital team of six, working closely with the front-end developers. Starting with moodboards, sitemaps and wireframes, right through to visuals and interactive prototypes. Working on a variety of projects from landing pages, portals, ecommerce websites and gamification. Designing and building email campaigns for many of our clients Creating interactive brochures and flipbooks with PubHTML5. Design and build eLearning modules with Articulate. Responsible for helping to bring the digital design up to industry standard, in terms of procedure and programs used to create designs and for easier hand-overs to development. 3

CREATIVE DESIGNER Citizen Communication - 2015-2016 Working for a creative agency, focusing on design concepts across a range of collateral, to include advertisements, brochures, catalogues, POS and packaging. Creating and working from scamps to produce creative artwork solutions in response to briefs. Following and adhering to corporate branding instructions to produce artwork for global brands, such as EE, BT, O2 and Europcar. Responsible for developing the relationship between the agency and our contacts within Europcar, so that volume and diversity of work grew from small scale print jobs to major digital campaigns. GRAPHIC DESIGNER Newsquest Midlands South Ltd - 2004-2015 GRAPHIC DESIGNER Worcester College of Technology - 2003-2004 GRAPHIC DESIGNER Conrad Advertising Agency - 2000-2003 WEB DESIGNER Applegate Media - 1997-2000 4

E D U C AT I O N NORTH DEVON COLLEGE 1995 - 1997 GNVQ Advanced in Art & Design SOUTH MOLTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE 1990 - 1995 GCSE English Language GCSE English Literature GCSE Maths GCSE Science Double Award GCSE Art & Design GCSE Geography GCSE Design and Technology GCSE French EXPERIENCE 5 CMS Sketch PubHTML5 UX Pin Indesign Photoshop

INTERESTS REFERENCES Illustration is a massive passion of mine, it’s References available on request. great for being a creative outlet as well as being so relaxing. P L AT F O R M S I pretty much love all sports, either taking part or as I’m comfortable working on Mac, PC a spectator. I’ve had a season to ticket for the local or with good old fashioned pencil rugby team for the last three years. I’ve regularly and paper. attend T20 finals day at Edgbaston. Being brought up in the countryside I love being outdoors, whether that’s going for walks or body- boarding really badly, back home in Devon. I regularly take part in Wolf runs. I’ve currently finished seven events, and achieved “Alpha Wolf” status in 2018, which is awarded on completion of all four runs held throughout the year. I’m a big science fiction fan, especially classic Doctor Who (I must own in the region of 800 plus Doctor Who books - the collection continues to grow and take over even more of living room). Illustrator Adobe XD Dreamweaver Articulate After Effects 6Office

WAI SITE TEMPLATES Citizen recently won the right to be one of four approved marketing suppliers for Worcester Bosch Accredited Installers. This means the potential to supply initially 3,500 WAI’s website, digital marketing and offline branding. We offered two options, one option being the premium bespoke site or option two a template system. These visuals are a selection of the template designs. 7

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H A M I LTO N S VA L E T I N G Brand creation for a local mobile vehicle valeting company. Hamiltons was started in 2017 and I worked alongside the company owner to develop the brand to work both online and offline communications. The Hamiltons brand created has been used on their business cards, office stationery, vehicle livery and the company website, 9

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EE & BT At Citizen one of our biggest clients is EE. In 2016 BT bought EE, one client effectively become two. We offer a full agency service to EE and BT, creating and working on online and offline collateral. So for EE and BT I’ve worked on landing pages, portals, online calculators, brochures, booklets, POS, sales toolkits and email campaigns. 11

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SEAFISH TENDER Work from a recent tender, for a Non-Departmental Public Body set up by the Fisheries Act 1981. To become the organisation’s lead design agency. The pitch was to design sample elements using the existing brand. My task was to create a homepage for the Seafish organisation, working closely with my colleagues to ensure consistency across all aspects.

ILLUSTRATIONS Here is a selection of some of my illustrations, more of a hobby but sometimes comes in handy at work to create something bespoke and unique. The Sontaran Experiment Tardis and Ice Warrior 1980’s Cyberm Hand sketched layout, scanned and Hand sketched layout, scanned and Hand sketched layou redrawn and coloured in Illustrator. redrawn and coloured in Illustrator. redrawn and coloure 15

man ut, scanned and ed in Illustrator. The Candyman 16 Hand sketched layout, scanned and redrawn and coloured in Illustrator.

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