Nicolas Jandrain

Art Director / Motion Designer / Director

Creative director and Motion director with over 11 years of experience in design, branding, advertising, and digital communication. I start in interactive design in 1999 as an art director, responsible for design conception and art direction on interactive projects for many european and international clients, including Coca-Cola, Wrangler Europe, Volkswagen, Audi, Nestle, Schweppes...

Create engaging emotional and impacfull visuals communication that convey the right message, translate the right brand startegy in unexpected ways is my goal

I strategize, conceptualize, design, and champion interactive and communication solutions for a wide range of projects, from interface design to rich media campaigns and films, across a variety of industries such as fashion, automotive, travel, art, fmcg...

I am always driven by excellence and innovation
I am curious. I constantly upgrade my design skills and knowledge of new media to the latest standards. I have a passion for researching and learning about communications and branding.

Specialties
• Visual Communication
• Creative Direction
• new media/Interactive Art Direction
• digital marketing /advertising
• Online Brand Experiences
• Rich Media Environments
• Interactive Strategy
• Motion Design & Film Direction
• Print

Work Experience

Ex-Machina

Designer

Ex-machina interactive architect / Ex-Machina graphic design
—Position held: Senior Designer / Art Dierctor
—Clients included: Coca-cola, Coca-Cola light, Accenture, Swift, Dexia, Godiva, Siemens, Mobistar, Glaverbel, AGC, CBR…
—Duties included: Design and art direction for digital and print communications.

–I was the art director and designer for all the Coca-Cola Belgium websites for nearly 3 years
I also developed "VEGO" websites, the first big branded community – the application allows the teenager to create a virtual ego and play game, chat online, and build their own website in flash.

-I also work on a lot of print material like posters, brochures, annuals report for client like Siemens, Accenture, Swift…
September 1999 - April 2002 Brussels, United States

Emakina

Creative DIrector / Motion Director

—Duties included:
Creative concept development for online marketing, creative direction, art direction, client liaison and presentation.

-I have been lead Art Director on the European website of Wrangler for the past 3 years. The goal of the project was build a presence and present Wrangler’s collections in a trendy, innovative way that pushes forward the creative limits in user experience, design, for each new collection.

–I was the lead Art / Motion Director on VWescapetv the first European webtv (www.vwescape.tv) I was responsible for the conception and identity of the channel, the art direction of the website, and the conception of the viral campaign.
April 2002 - November 2010 Brussels, United States

Visualmeta4

owner (creative director)

July 2006 -

Prologue Films

Creative Director

November 2010 - Los Angeles, California, United States

Awards

Creative Club Of Belgium

Design & Craft Audiovisual Branding

201106

WEB AWARD

Food Industry Standard of Excellence

201106

EM Awards

Pierre MArcolini Website Leader Award "Consumer Product category

201007

Webby Awards

Wrangler Website Official Honoree Fashion

201001

Webby Awards

WRANGLER WEBSITE Best Use of Video

200901

IMA AWARD

Best in Class Fashion category Wrangler Europe

IAC Award

ING CAMPAIGN Best Bank Rich Media Online campaign

WEB AWARD

Volkswagen (escape TV) Outstanding Website