About me

I’m Calin Radu, a senior digital designer and art director, currently freelancing in London and Berlin. With over seven years of experience, I’ve worked across many mediums for a diverse array of clients. My services include art direction, branding & identity, illustration, motion, UI/UX and web design. Some of the clients I’ve worked with: Cheil, Curve, Edelman, IBM iX, KFC, Nissan, Ogilvy, Saatchi & Saatchi, Salesforce, Samsung, P&G, Publicis, Vodafone, and many more. For more information about my work experience, please check my Yunojuno and LinkedIn profiles, or email me for a copy of my CV.

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Projects

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  Logofolio
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  Design the Illy CanHere are my submissions for the contest Design the Illy can by illycaffè. The brief was clean: decorate the Illy metal can with your personal design that should represent the Illy coffee feeling. The limit was 3 designs for a person and so I tried to create 3 different designs, each one of them with a different Illy vibe.
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  Motion Graphics for Romania Football League 2In this project I had to realise various broadcast graphics and intro animations for the Romanian Football Federation's League 2. Design and animation were made using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects.
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  Business Illustrations
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  Business Motion Graphics GifsHere I made a set of 10 animated icons for InkyDeals.com. The brief was to create a set of GIF icons that can be used in webdesign. Software: Adobe After Effects & Illustrator You can buy them from www.inkydeals.com
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  36 days of type 36 Days of Type is a project that invites Designers, Illustrators and Graphic Artists to express their particular view on letters and numbers of our alphabet. 36 days of restlesss creativity, where participants are challenged to design a letter or number each day, resulting an outcome of the ability to represent the same symbol from many different perspectives. A project that aims to be a space for creation around typography and its endless graphic possibilities. More information at www.36dayso

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Projects credited in

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  ATLAS OF COMMUNISMThis project is a collaboration between me and the citizens of Suceava, who shared their knowledge of history and architecture, personal experience, memories, and stories. The main purpose of this atlas is to raise new questions, not to recreate history, and to start unexpected conversations between the generations that lived during communism and the ones that never experienced it. However, in order to bring to the surface complex stories about Suceava, my home town, I chose to represent its wea
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  Small Motion graphicsCollection of animations
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  3rd Ateluhm collection

Work history

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Freelance Senior Designer & Art DirectorStudio MRC Ltd
Sep 2017London, United KingdomFreelance
Worked with a variety of agencies and studios around London: Saatchi & Saatchi London, Ogilvy UK, eg+ Worldwide, Doner UK, KeKo London, Signal Noise, Daniel J. Edelman London, Contented (Miroma), IBM iX, The Small Axe, AudienceNet, Cheil UK, The Online Studio, Mainstage Agency Bucharest.
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Digital DesignerCheil London
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019London, United KingdomFull Time

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Skills

• Adobe Illustrater
• Graphic Design
• Web Design
• Art Direciton
• 2D Drawing
• Digital Painting
• Digital Design
• 2 Animation
• Illustration
• Logo Design
• UI Design

Education

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1 Year Erasmus ProgrammAccademia di Belle Arti Bologna
Aug 2013 - Jun 2014Italy
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Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)University Of Arts Bucharest
Aug 2012 - Jun 2015Bucharest, Romania

Awards

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Silver for Best AppsInternetics.ro
Saatchi & Saatchi + The Geeks Bucharest Agency for Rowenta’s ‘The Vacuum Helper’ Bucharest, Romania