About me

I’ve spent the last 15 years collaborating with world-class, passionate people at the likes of AKQA, Google and Facebook in both London and Amsterdam. Brands I’ve had the pleasure to work with in that time include the UNHCR, Nike, M&S, Heineken, Dyson, Nissan, Phillips and Lancôme. The past 4 years have been some of my most memorable inside Google Brand Studio. We created everything from Searching for Syria - an award winning interactive story for the UNHCR - to an educational VR experience teaching kids about renewable energy, to retrofitting a piano made in 1870 so it plays visual animations in order to help people who are scared of technology. Having recently moved to Facebook, I'm now working as a Design Lead on a 3 year old, London born product and am excited to help guide the brand into its next chapter. I've always been humbled to be part of a global community of exceptionally hard working people, and keen to give back. With a hunger and desire to add a greater value and meaning to the things I design, craft and create, I wake up excited everyday that I have the chance to help connect people’s lives in ways I never thought possible a decade ago.

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Projects

• 5

  Petra Street View
• 4

  Dyson 360 Eye App
• 5

  Manchester Magical Piano

Projects credited in

• 3

  Checkout process optimisationE-commerce
• 3

  PetraVR
• 8

  Google Expeditions: Into the Wind - Virtual 360º field trip into a North Sea Wind Farm
• 16

  Searching for Syria
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  Campaign & Creative Equals present the next generation of women redefining creativity 2018"Campaign and Creative Equals present the future creative leaders; the women defining creativity today and tomorrow. Last year, Campaign’s "Future creative leaders" made its debut. The result was a talent-quake. Those who explained away the lack of female creatives in their departments by saying, "We just can’t seem to find the talent", no longer had an excuse. Now, this list has a life of its own. In 2017, we had 70 entrants; this year, we had 170, all the way up to creative director level. So,
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  This International Women’s Day, meet the 200 Women Redefining the Creative Industry in 2018Yana Peel CEO of the Serpentine Galleries since 2016. Peel is a co-founder of the Outset Contemporary Art Fund and Intelligence Squared Asia, and was CEO of Intelligence Squared Group from 2013 to 2016. Awarded one of Harper’s Bazaar ‘Women of the Year’ 2017 for her contribution to arts. Yana's nominations: Es Devlin - Stage designer Grace Wales Bonner - Fashion designer Sondra Perry - New media artist and net neutrality advocate FeiFei Li - Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence La

Work history

Senior CreativeGoogle
Oct 2015London, United KingdomFull Time
Senior Design - Senior Art DirectorAKQA
Nov 2009 - Mar 2015London, United KingdomFull Time

Skills

• Adobe Create Suite
• Adobe Photoshop
• Abobe Illustrator
• Sketch
• Invision
• Adobe After Effects

Education

BA (Hons) Graphic Communication Design, First Class Honours (1st)University of Portsmouth
Oct 2001 - May 2004Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Awards

Searching for SyriaD&AD
D&AD Impact Awards (Wooden Pencil)
Petra VR ExperienceThe Lovie Awards
Silver (Best Visual Design)

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