James Hardwick

Digital Designer

London, United Kingdom

Work Experience

The Hive Group

Senior Digital Designer

June 2013 - Present London, United Kingdom

Health4Brands Europe

Digital designer

Working as part of a team to provide digital solutions to global healthcare companies.
February 2012 - May 2013 London, United Kingdom

Deutsche Bank

UI Designer

Working as part of a team to create online and mobile solutions to monitor global server usage using both flex and html 5. As lead designer it was my job to design an intuitive and functional UI to best display the data provided by the extensive Deutsche Bank database.
Liaising closely with the end users my role was to develop a recognisable branded feel that users could familiarise themselves with across all applications creating continuity through design and interaction.
April 2010 - October 2011 London, United Kingdom

Traveling / Ogilvy Impact

Traveling / Senior Designer

In October 2008 I was fortunate enough to take a years sabbatical with my wife to travel the world visiting countries in Asia, Australasia and North America. During this period we settled in Sydney - Australia, where I worked for Ogilvy working on Blue chips clients such as Coca-Cola, Nestlé & British American Tobacco.
October 2008 - January 2010 Sydney, Australia

Fc-d Ltd

Senior Designer

A small, established design consultancy who work closely with Healthcare PR companies creating a variety of projects, ranging from corporate Identities to websites. I was responsible for project management of each job from the initial concepts through to supplying the web developer with final layouts and graphics.
April 2004 - September 2008 London, United Kingdom

BDA

Designer

Working for a well established design consultancy, producing a wide range of literature from brochures, leaflets, corporate identity, packaging, web design, book publications and a variety of marketing literature.
March 2004 - April 2008 Buckingham, United Kingdom

Anker International

Junior Designer

Working as part of an inhouse studio team supplying artwork for print. Anker International is a large distribution company supplying big named stores such as Asda,Tesco and Woolworths with stationery items.
September 1998 - May 2004 Newport Pagnell, United Kingdom

Education

Bedford College

BTEC National Diploma in Graphic Design

September 1996 - July 1998 Bedford, United Kingdom

Skills

Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Quark Xpress, Adobe Flash Catalyst,