As a Creative Director, Head Product Designer, Graphic Designer and owner of a long-running Design Agency, Coworking Space and Furniture brand, I have spent 20 years involved in every aspect of design, working on the branding, online promotion, printed graphics and product design for hundreds of businesses including my own.
Today, I work as Head of Design at Versantus - one of Oxford's leading digital agencies. I lead a team of talented front end designers and developers and act as the creative conduit between our software engineering teams and our wonderful clients.
My entire working life has been spent in design. I began my craft in the trade shows industry and agency world as a graphic designer and illustrator before moving on to run my own agency for 16 years. Managing a small team, we developed products and graphics for clients around the world, working across multiple digital channels and disciplines that included web and ecommerce, videography, photography and animation.
Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, ProCreate, Lightroom, Photography, Videography, HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Sketchup, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
If you have any questions about my work or would like to know more about how our products can benefit your business please drop me a line at: sam@helmm.co
Projects
- FunkBunk - Coworking Space and CommunityIn 2007 I set up FunkBunk, one of the UK's first and longest running coworking and creative communities based in the Buckinghamshire countryside. We ran the space for 10 years handling the all aspects of the physicial space and online presence. The website featured a booking system and online forum. The space changed and developed over the years covering meeting rooms, an art gallery, workshops, offices and event spaces. All interior design was developed in house over the 10 years and formed the basis of a study on Workplace Wellness.
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Head of DesignProarch
London, United KingdomFull Time
Head of the design team at ProArch's UK division in London, working on a suite of products that manage the business needs of large scale international enterprises. We build great prototypes in Figma, ready for development, focussing on user-centric and customer-centric needs. Above all I do everything I can to make a sustainable, positive impact, for our customers, the team here at ProArch and everyone that gets to experience our products.
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Head of DesignVersantus
- Oxford, United KingdomFull Time
As head of design at Versantus in Oxford, I am responsible for user experience and user interface decisions for our digital products.
I have been a website designer since 1998 and have evolved my style with my experience and the ever changing landscape of digital design, becoming more and more focussed on the psychology of the user and how to use design to deliver sublime online experiences.
I don't have a crystal ball so make no predictions, but always keep one eye on culture and trends with the other eye on commercial reality.
I'm backed by an amazing team of developers and tech experts and take an enormous amount of pride in creating refined, beautiful work.
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Skills
- Product Design
- Illustration
- Workplace Design
- Art and Creative Direction
- Art Direction
- Ux/ui Design
- Adobe
- Sketchup
- Procreate
- Wordpress
Education
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BTEC HND Graphic Design / PhotographyCentral Bedfordshire College
- United Kingdom
2 year higher national diploma in Graphic Design. Presenting work at the D&AD Awards in London, completing a work placement at BBM Agency in Luton and also completing a City & Guilds qualification in Photography.