About me

I am an illustrator and designer. My work experience is in advertising, experiential, design, broadcast and e-learning. Ive been involved in creative for a variety of brands, 360 campaigns, social media campaigns, E-commerce tools, online advertising, mobile apps, content rich sites, e-learning sites, events. I also like to draw. My illustration portfolio is: http://www.this-is-nico.com/illustrations

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Projects

• Illustration for marketing/promotionI illustrated the shop front of a lifestyle boutique for promotional use to celebrate their birthday.
• Promax UK Website redesignI worked remotely with a small team creating a new website from the new Promax branding. I created the wireframes and then went on to design the UI and visual design through out the site.
• Estée Lauder eventArt direction and illustration for the decor and murals of a beauty event by You Magazine and Estée Lauder. The events team wanted to decorate a large interior events space in a Bloomsbury building, we went for a sketchy hand-drawn style of an English village - picket fences, country garden flowers, phone box, trees etc also a VIP space for Breast Cancer Awareness in the style of a decadent drawing room. The murals and various village scene assets where produced in illustrator for large prints.

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Projects credited in

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  All Things HairRazorfish London collaborated with Unilever on creating a curated platform to empower women with the internet’s best hair content . The YouTube channel learns what hair-styling tips women search for on Google and forwards these queries to a team of vloggers, who are paid by Unilever to create tutorials. This marked the first time that the company has promoted multiple brands in a single campaign.
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  Guinness CampaignAs part of the Creative Equals Returner Programme - I was part of a team of three based at Anomaly Agency. We worked on a brief for Diageo - looking at how to re-connect with the Guinness customer. The ideas, design and presentation had to be delivered in a very short time period and was presented to the client Diageo and Guinness - where it was very well received.

Work history

DesignerBrilliant Basics
Sep 2013 - Apr 2014London, United KingdomFreelance
Part of a big design team for the new personal and business HSBC websites.
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DesignerAll of Us
Jun 2011 - Aug 2011London, United KingdomFreelance
Design for a television channel website

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Skills

• Drawing
• Animation
• Typography
• Layout Design
• Branding Design
• Consultant
• Art Directing
• Photoshop
• Book Illustration
• Digital Illustration

Education

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2:1 (BA Hons) Graphic DesignUCE
Oct 1996 - Jun 1999Birmingham, United States