Benjamin Rawles
Award Winning Creative Director and Brand Creator
Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaWork Experience
Best Buy
Senior Digital Designer
Designed impactful brand, event and initiative experiences for all digital platforms. Inspired, led and mentored the design community.
May 2019
- Present
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Nature's Path
Art Director
Art direction and experience design for some of Nature's Path core brands. Digital experiences, brand collateral, marketing, video.
- Provided Leadership and Mentorship within an experiential design role.
- Art direction of video shoots, photoshoots and led presentation and pitches
- Demonstrated success in helping to build brand awareness and value, through campaigns, brand evolutions, digital and print executions.
- Co-ordinated design workshops and hubs for developing creative experiences.
- Highly skilled as a digital, ux, ui, video and print designer.
- Communicated design concept ideas through sketches and wireframes and final product.
- Demonstrated command of visual and communication design principles.
- Liaison to multiple departmental functions
- Enthusiast for an iterative design process
- Excellent collaboration skills.
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
- Had to create work under minimal supervision and present creative solutions.
- Ability to juggle multiple, complex projects and deploy resources accordingly, often under tight deadlines
- Provided Leadership and Mentorship within an experiential design role.
- Art direction of video shoots, photoshoots and led presentation and pitches
- Demonstrated success in helping to build brand awareness and value, through campaigns, brand evolutions, digital and print executions.
- Co-ordinated design workshops and hubs for developing creative experiences.
- Highly skilled as a digital, ux, ui, video and print designer.
- Communicated design concept ideas through sketches and wireframes and final product.
- Demonstrated command of visual and communication design principles.
- Liaison to multiple departmental functions
- Enthusiast for an iterative design process
- Excellent collaboration skills.
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
- Had to create work under minimal supervision and present creative solutions.
- Ability to juggle multiple, complex projects and deploy resources accordingly, often under tight deadlines
November 2015
-
British Columbia, Canada
Talk Create
Art Director
- Art Direction - management and art direction of junior and intermediate graphic designers, UX designers and developers for a range of design projects ranging from branding, print and integrated digital design campaigns.
Project Management - fullfillment of all deliverables, through management of deadlines and budgets.
- Client Management and Presentations - lead design presentations to win new contracts from clients
- Account management - multiple client management and organization
- Staff management - managed and directed my own staff including photographers, junior designers, web designers, IT development and accountancy staff
- Development of branding, proposal documents and animation assets for award nominated International Television Programming and Production teams
- Brand Development - worked with clients to develop identities to help to increase brand awareness and educate on brand design and increase sales clients include
- Lead Design for Digital, Print, Vehicle Art, Interiors & Architecture Graphics
- Integrated design campaigns for digital.
- Website Development - from concept, initial concept meetings, wire framing through testing to live launch
- CMS - management of client websites through joomla and wordpress
Project Management - fullfillment of all deliverables, through management of deadlines and budgets.
- Client Management and Presentations - lead design presentations to win new contracts from clients
- Account management - multiple client management and organization
- Staff management - managed and directed my own staff including photographers, junior designers, web designers, IT development and accountancy staff
- Development of branding, proposal documents and animation assets for award nominated International Television Programming and Production teams
- Brand Development - worked with clients to develop identities to help to increase brand awareness and educate on brand design and increase sales clients include
- Lead Design for Digital, Print, Vehicle Art, Interiors & Architecture Graphics
- Integrated design campaigns for digital.
- Website Development - from concept, initial concept meetings, wire framing through testing to live launch
- CMS - management of client websites through joomla and wordpress
April 2013
- Present
United Kingdom
Connect Group PLC
Group Creative Designer
Managed internal & external brand for the Group. Created all design content in print, web, digital for all depts and business units. Created digital content to work responsively across all devices maintaining corporate brand consistency.
Responsible for all design for group business units. Design leadership and training of employees. Managed photo shoots & design and photo repositories.
Responsible for all design for group business units. Design leadership and training of employees. Managed photo shoots & design and photo repositories.
July 2013
- June 2014
United Kingdom
Prismtech Graphics
Head Designer
Managed one-on-one client relationships. Supervised external creative projects including: branding, signage, interiors & vehicles. Designed marketing materials for inhouse & clients including: print, web, signage and vehicles. Website design using Joomla, Wordpress, HTML/CSS. Management of company marketing materials including: business cards, signage, website, print ads.
July 2012
- March 2013
British Columbia, Canada
SPUD
Graphic Designer and Web Editor
Managed & created all digital & printed design content for Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Portland, LA & San Francisco. Created graphics for marketing campaigns in print, web,
packaging, marketing, signage & vehicles. Created a large amount of designs that work responsively across all devices maintaining the brand consistency over seven locations in the US and Canada.
packaging, marketing, signage & vehicles. Created a large amount of designs that work responsively across all devices maintaining the brand consistency over seven locations in the US and Canada.
August 2008
- August 2010
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Graphic Impressions
Senior Designer
Designed graphics for print, digital, web, architectural and vehicle graphics project. Managed one-on-one client relationships. Supervised external creative projects including: branding, signage, interiors & vehicles.
Lead a design team of 3 & supervised installation of graphics on vehicles, interiors & signage.
Lead a design team of 3 & supervised installation of graphics on vehicles, interiors & signage.
March 2011
- July 2012
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Education
British Columbia Institute Of Technology
Associate Certificate In Design Communication
Studied the following courses: Typography, Colour, Design Foundation, Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver
2007
- 2010
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Bath City College
Award in Education and Learning
The Award has been designed to take a practical approach to understanding the essential elements of successful teaching and training, at higher level.
Assessment was portfolio-based through varied coursework assignments and an observed 30 minute 'micro teach' session to our course peers in a subject of our choice.
Assessment was portfolio-based through varied coursework assignments and an observed 30 minute 'micro teach' session to our course peers in a subject of our choice.
October 2014
- October 2014
United Kingdom
University Of Glamorgan
BA Humanities: Psychology
1995
- 1998
Pontypridd, United Kingdom
Languages
English (Native),
French (Conversational),
Skills
Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Indesign,
Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Premiere Pro ,
Art Direction,
Client Management,
Creative Director,
Design,
Graphic Design,
HTML,
Marketing,
Team Manager,
Web Design,