ken davidson
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ken davidson

Integrated designer and art directorLondon, United Kingdom
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ken davidson
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ken davidson

Integrated designer and art directorLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Integrated designer with over 15 years experience, designing exciting and diverse creative and integrated solutions across all media from social, brochures, DM, magazines, and leaflets to website development including UI and UX, email newsletters and digital publications. Working with International Blue Chip companies or SME's. I have the same passion and commitment for the job, to explore all creative avenues, using my vast experience across print and digital to deliver projects that exceed client expectations
Projects
  • Think Publishing brochure
    Think Publishing brochureCreating an infographic led brochure for Think publishing highlighting the key findings for their yearly client report. Creating a strong visual style to ensure that the content is easy to understand and visually exciting.
  • Boots How to: Wrap an awkward present
    Boots How to: Wrap an awkward presentStop frame animation showing how to wrap an awkwardly shaped present. Initial storyboarding, and concepts. styling and art directing the actual shoot. Retouching, colour matching and prepping each individual frame ready for final After Effects build.
  • Boots 3for2 video
    Boots 3for2 videoStop frame animation explaining how the 3for2 offer works in Boots stores. Initial storyboarding, and concepts. styling and art directing the actual shoot. Retouching, colour matching and prepping each individual frame ready for final After Effects build.
  • Boots Christmas Gift Guide 2018
    Boots Christmas Gift Guide 2018Developing initial scamps and layouts for the 2018 Boots Christmas Gift Guide. Followed by 6 weeks in studio shooting, marking up and retouching all the images and then final layout and artworking for print.
  • House of Fraser - Christmas social campaign
    House of Fraser - Christmas social campaign
  • IPH Insurance - Responsive website
    IPH Insurance - Responsive website
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Projects credited in
  • Art Direction Boots Christmas Gift Guide 2017
    Art Direction Boots Christmas Gift Guide 2017
  • Boots Christmas Gift Guide
    Boots Christmas Gift Guide
Work history
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    Redwood BBDO logo
    Integrated DesignerRedwood BBDO
    London, United KingdomFreelance
    Working across many of the agencies key accounts, including: Barclays, Virgin Media, Volvo and Boots Health and Beauty. I have been a key member of the creative team that designed the 2015 and 2016 Boots Christmas Gift Guides. My roles in each project has included page design and development, layouts, product and lifestyle shoots, retouching and repro. Working with the Boots Health & Beauty team, to design and develop the H&B’s first digital magazine. For the first 12 issues I have been responsible for creating bespoke multi layered content to enhance the user experience. The digging platform allows the user to purchase all the products in the digimag via a bespoke shopping basket functionality, which links directly to the main Boots website. For Barclays I have been in charge of creating a wide range of social and print assets from brochures and leaflets to email newsletters, infographics and a multitude of social media resources, With the Virgin Media team I created the Christmas Movie guide DM pack along with the online version and helped develop the award winning Virgin Media 'Year of Sport' DM material, including brochure, postcards and banner ads.
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    Integrated Art DirectorKDCreative
    London, United KingdomFull Time
    Creating individually tailored design solutions using traditional print disciplines and engaging digital and social content for a large array of clients both large and small. Working for independent clients and leading agencies including: Redwood, Seven, John Brown, Dazed Media, Hanger 7, Think, Forward, Media 10
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Skills
  • Direct Marketing
  • Integrated Campaigns
  • Digital Online Design
  • Magazine Design
  • Social Content
  • Website Design
  • Print Design
  • Tea Making
  • Creativity
  • Art Direction
Education
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    BA (Hons) Graphic DesignSouthampton Solent University
     - Southampton, United Kingdom
Awards
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    Best non-retail consumerCMA Content Marketing Awards
    Create a mailing to showcase the amazing year of sport on offer to Virgin Media customers. Large iconic imagery of the previous years sporting achievements, were used to highlight the great sporting events that customers could look forward to. These were combined with strong iconography and humorous anecdotes to further engage the reader and to promote a feel good factor for the Virgin Media brand.
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    APA logo
    Shortlisted for magazine launch of the yearAPA
    Develop and deliver a bi­-monthly parenting magazine that has a fresh and innovative feel whilst covering the core stories affecting modern parenting. During a challenging time in the market place Gurgle magazine managed to excel when others in the sector floundered. 2 years after launch it was selling 36,000 copies per issue and had become the biggest selling parenting magazine in the UK, whilst holding on to it’s core values of innovative design and engaging stories.
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