About me

Martin is a multi award winning, contemporary Design Director with a wide range of skills in advertisings, DOOG, OOH, branding, print, digital & interactive design. He also has excellent client-side and interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop & refine a brief, manage client accounts and develop strong, lasting client relationships and lead effective design teams.

In the past 13 years Martin has worked with clients ranging from award winning international startups & SMEs through to local authorities, Universities, retailers, architects and other design professionals. Often running multiple projects and multidisciplinary teams with demanding stakeholders Martin delivers projects on time and to budget.

Key to Martin's abilities is his skill in getting to the heart of the brief, working with clients/stakeholders helping them to define their needs, leading to effective design that exceeds client expectations and provides measurable returns.

Skills

SKILLS, Graphic Design, Typography, Web Design, User Experience, User Interface Design, Prepress, Illustration, Character design, Hand Drawing, Leadership & mentoring, Visualisations, Packaging design, P.O.S design & fulfilment, Photography & retouching, SOFTWARE EXPERTISE, Indesign CS - CS56, Photoshop 9 - CS6, Illustrator 8 - CS6, Lightroom 1 - 3, Incopy CS, MS Office, iWorks, Acrobat Pro, Wordpress, Rapidweaver, Mail Chimp, Daylite, Working Knowledge, Pitstop Pro, Fireworks, After Effects, Flash, Dreamweaver, Final Cut Pro, Toonboom, Google Sketch Up, Design Knowledge, HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, .NET, Magento,, AUTO CAD, SolidWorks, Agile & Waterfall Dev

Sector Experience

In the past 11 years Martin has worked with clients ranging from award winning international startups & SMEs through to local authorities, Universities, retailers, architects and other design professionals. Often running multiple projects and multidisciplinary teams with demanding stakeholders Martin delivers projects on time and to budget.

Clients

4 Counties Procurement, Coutts, Esure, Giraffe Communications, Havard Tisdal property development, Heron Valley Organic Drinks, Impact Through Art, James Bartholomew RSMA, Laptop Learning Franchise Ltd, LMS Highways, Occombe Farm, Onzo, Owens of Modbury, Pride Torbay, Pryamid AV solutions, Quba Sails, Red Earth Kitchen & Deli, RED&WHITE the wine merchant, Sheilas? Wheels, Sony, South Devon College, St Austel Brewery, The Cottage Kitchen, The English Riviera Global Geopark, The English Riviera Tourist Board, The Royal Castle Hotel, the Soil Association, The Torbay Coast & Countryside Trust, The Unit, Torbay Development Agency, Torbay Museum & Library Service (MLA), Two Sore Thumbs, University of Exeter Business School, VW Europe