Curriculum Vitae, Brian Morris

PROFILE
At the core of my work in visual communications are strategic concepts that tell stories about brands in a usable and accessible manner.

EXPERIENCE
_{11.01-current}
Creative Director BEEMO New York, Rio de Janeiro, Seattle

_09.05-06.07
Senior Art Director iCrossing New York, NY
Responsible for art direction and technical development for the Emerging Technologies Group as part of the Creative Department at the largest private SEO agency in the US. Worked with a multidisciplinary team including information architects, copywriters, and designers to balance the technical details of SEO with branding initiatives to provide optimized content for clients like Coca-Cola, Batteries.com (winner of 2006 Web Award from the Web Marketing Association), Citibank, Onward Healthcare, PetCo, Fairmont, Kennedy Space Center, etc. I also participated in client pitches for optimized content and creative services for mobile and web channels for AmEx, Dollar Rent-a-Car, Charles Schwab, and Six Flags.

_01.05-09.05
Senior Designer The Knot New York, NY
Responsible for designing an assortment of marketing materials for several in-house brands—The Knot, The Nest, Greatboyfriends, and PromSpot—as well as outside clients who advertise their products and services through these channels. Key clients included Kohls, Oral-B, Sony Music, Castle Resorts, and Collages.

_11.03-03.04
Senior Art Director One Digital São Paulo, Brazil
As the first senior member of the creative team, I was responsible for both in-house visual branding of the agency (on and offline projects) as well as art direction and production for several corporate clients such as Ford (Mexico), McDonalds, Bradesco, and Expand Group. I also managed an in-house mentoring program for design school interns.

_01.00-12.01
Senior Art Director Lowe & Partners New York, NY
As the founding Art Director of Lowe Live, I was responsible for the world class creative and solid strategic thinking behind the digital marketing efforts of Dell, Dennys (finalist in the New York Festival, 2001), Western Union, Burger King, RCN, Courtyard, Homeroom, Lego, MapQuest, Amstel Light, Heineken, InterNap, SunGard, as well as in-house creative work for Lowe including site design, identity systems, and video editing. I was then promoted to Senior Art Director and began to manage junior designers and interns.

_03.99-01.00
Graphic Designer UniWorld Group New York, NY
I designed and developed an intranet for one of the largest, privately held, multi-ethnic advertising companies in the country. This paved the way for more new media accounts and eventually designing and developing the company’s own site. I also prepared presentation materials for clients such as AT&T, Burger King, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft, and Microsoft.

_06.97-04.98
Network Operations/Graphic Designer Sprint Washington, DC
I managed the world’s largest X.25 data network as well as Frame Relay networks. I also designed the Public Data Service Center’s intranet which helped make operations run more efficiently while supporting large client networks such as AOL.

EDUCATION
_04.98-07.98
Interactive Multimedia Design
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (School for the Arts) Amsterdam, NL

_08.90-05.94
B.A., Psychology
University of North Carolina Wilmington, NC

PRESS/AWARDS
05.06 Advertising Standard of Excellence Award for Batteries.com campaign (US)
07.03 Creative Review (Design magazine, UK)
07.03 Revista DIF (Lifestyle magazine, Portugal)
04.02 1º Exposição de Arte Digital (Poster exhibition, Brazil)
04.02 Globo (TV interview, Brazil)
02.02 Revista Bossa (Online design magazine, Brazil)
06.01 Finalist at NY Festival for Dennys.com (US)

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Software: Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, etc.), Quark XPress, and more.
Languages: XHTML, CSS, and Portuguese.

Thank You.

Hello, my name is:

Information

Other profiles

Download my Resume/CV

Curriculum Vitae, Brian Morris