ed walker print and web design

Highly skilled Digital Designer with 14 years' experience in design communication
Passionate about editorial design, brand development, instructional design and information graphics
Strong focus on accessibility, usability and standards
Diverse skills in a multitude of design platforms and landscapes
Delivered results in corporate, SME and freelance working environments
Experienced in management of designers and freelancers

Responsible for nuts.co.uk | mousebreaker.com | playforyourclub.com
Nuts - Maintaining the live site with digital content, display advertising, advertorial creation and online representation of the magazines editorial whilst always coming up with new and innovative ways to develop unique users and page impressions.
Working in collaboration with the mag design team I worked in a team to create brand new advertising formats that were rolled out to the entire IPC portfolio.
Mousebreaker – Designing the website, all advertising material as well as print promotion for the site.
Developing new ways of navigating our users towards our games, creating imagery and design for the games themselves and new techniques of presenting the content on social networks.
Nuts and Mousebreaker were nominated for best websites in the IPC editorial awards 2010 and Mousebreaker won best Digital Content.

Designer for live music promoter and venue owner Live Nation
Creating promotional websites,updating the livenation site, html emails and offline products
Great opportunity to work with global music brands and create unique projects

Developed web and kiosk design for HSBC, HRH The Queen, Ladbrooks and XMLondon
Worked with the Creative Director, Head of Design, Account managers and programmers to deliver web ready graphics and develop ideas for pitches.

Working as part of a team to create flash interactive learning packages.
Liaising with writers, creative director, illustrators and project managers to produce engaging design using the companies Script to Screen system to automate course building
Worked on projects for MoD, BECTA, Nestle and Department for Education and Skills

Worked as part of design team at mwr, an education-focussed new media company that creates engaging and educational e-learning packages for academic and cultural heritage institutions.
Responsible for improving productivity and inspiring creativity in a self-taught design team
Developed brand for flagship e-learning product 'Understand' and created print and online marketing materials
Created A-level interactive Flash learning modules for the Science Museum's 'Making the Modern World' website
Developed usability testing procedures and undertook testing of the company's products
Completed first edition of design team's codes of practice for ISO 9001 certification and consolidated company brand in the mwr style guide

Rebranded grid computing company Enigmatec
Developed brand and site design for implementor, a legal marketing company
Completed a rebrand for TV statistics company the Television Research Partnership
Developed marketing for broadcast company OKSO and assumed role of Freelance Creative Director
Created wide and varied range of work for legal firm Osborne Clarke, including websites, Flash presentations, rich marketing e-mail and brand development of their Intranet 'Ozone'

As one of the Founding Directors, established corporate identity of Silk New Media
Developed clean and forthright design style to overcome challenges of screen design, dealing in particular with information graphics on economic bandwidth
Delivered sites for professional service companies, specialising in the Law and Accountancy created sites for local businesses such as the GWR Radio group, artists' co-operatives and creative companies

Worked as Creative Director for Bristol Sound, a locally focused music website showcasing the Bristol music scene
Developed the brand over 18-month period, resulting in a brand that could be converted into any application and medium, including screen based web design, flash animation, internal company documents, print ads in black and white and full colour, fly posters and festival vinyl banners.

Conceived and established England Art, a print and design company, working with a colleague from HND course with a loan from Prince's Youth Business Trust
Worked on projects for other clients, including Big Issue Southwest, Southmead Hospital NHS Trust, Westworld Clothing Corp, Theatre Royal Bath, GWR Radio group

Skilled in print and screen based design
Vast experience in working with clients
Browser compatibility, hybrid and strict CSS layout technologies
XHTML, CSS, Flash (with basic Actionscripting); working knowledge of ASP, CGI and other database connectivity languages
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PhotoShop, Dreamweaver , Fireworks , Flash, Microsoft Office Suite

HND in Graphic Design, Dunstable College, Luton, 1993-1995
BTEC National Diploma in Graphic Design, Southfields College, Leicester, 1991-1993
BTEC First Diploma in Graphic Design, Southfields College, Leicester, 1990-1991

Ed Walker is a Senior Digital Designer working in London, UK