Curriculum Vitae Justin Wilden

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1 March 2005

2 Details Name: Justin Wilden Address: Pyrmont, Sydney Phone: Overview Objective To create inspired concepts and innovative customer experiences. Profi le Ten-years experience in design, brand strategy and interactive media. A dedicated, multi disciplinary designer with experience and skills in: conceptualisation, creative direction, visual design, and user-experience design. Spearheaded a range of creative projects including touch-screen kiosks for the Department for Environment and Heritage (South Australian Government), entertainment properties for Fox Films, intranet design for BHP Billiton, and a website for Sydney Opera House. Career highlighted by the rewarding experience of working closely with Baz Luhrmann as the Creative Lead for Moulin Rouge online. Preceding positions have included Creative Director, Visual Designer and Interactive Strategist, as well as conducting many projects as a design consultant. Committed to working as a friendly and respectful team member with both design professionals and clients. International exposure San Francisco, London, and Los Angeles. Strengths An inspiring idea generator with entrepreneurial vision. A confident and capable communicator of ideas and design. Capable of expressing visual ideas as concepts through to being hands-on to produce final artwork. Extremely competent in providing creative direction to guarantee a project s uniqueness and maintain a high design quality. Justin Wilden March 2005 Page 1

3 Professional Experience and Skills Creative Clear understanding of the design process from brainstorming to full creative development and delivery. An intuitive grasp of designing user experiences across multiple touch points. Storyboarding skills to assist project visualisation. Skilled in facilitating creative workshops for clients and internal teams. A highly experienced visual designer for print and multimedia. A comprehensive understanding and significant experience in the following disciplines: Concept ideation and prototyping Visual and information design Interface and interactive design Web and multimedia development Brand strategy and development User research and design ethnography Information architecture and content strategy Management Five-years of hands-on-management experience including new business development, business planning, team recruitment and client management. Experience in building and managing multi disciplined creative teams of between four to twelve members with sole responsibility for project facilitation, team morale, conceptual development and creative vision delivery. Capable of managing and working on multiple projects simultaneously, and supervising outsourced projects and vendor relationships for production and fulfi lment. Ability to delegate work, provide leadership and team building skills. Profi cient manager of budgets and deadlines for creative projects; highlighted by delivering a $400,000 design project with approximately 40% profi t. Client acknowledged it was the best team they had worked with in over ten-years. Justin Wilden March 2005 Page 2

4 Work History Current Aug 2002 Freelance Design Consultant Started a design business to fulfil brand and design needs of existing clients. Completed projects: Brand and user interface design Flik for C4 Communications. Brand identity, collateral and web design Chooby (Online retail). Brand visualisation national motorsports franchise. DVD menu design OasisDVD for the film Monday Morning. DVD covers design OasisDVD for Film Australia. Graphic design Stonker kiteboard range. Interactive CD South Australian Film Commission. Web advertising Australian Quarantine and Inspection Services. Web presence C4 Communications. Web presence Urban Pacific (Property Developer). Web presence Classic Vineyards of Australia (Wine group). Feb 2001 July 2002 Creative Director Different Solutions Pty Ltd Sydney Developed the Different brand strategy and corporate identity. Positioned company as an experiential design firm, which immediately provided market distinction and two large clients (BHPBilliton; IAG). Primary responsibility was directing and managing the creative team and developing creative solutions for clients in collaboration with the team. Dec 1999 Jan 2001 Interactive Creative Director Bazmark Inq (Moulin Rouge Film) Contract in Sydney and Los Angeles Distilled project requirements from Baz Luhrmann to produce a creative vision for Moulin Rouge online. Part of the successful pitching team to Fox Films (LA) to outsource the Moulin Rouge web site project to Bazmark - largest budget for a Fox film site. Liaised with creative team for delivery to Fox (US). Project involved brainstorming ideas, conceiving concepts, creative direction, information and content design, and interactive development. Completed two interactive projects under intense creative and legal pressure ( and Justin Wilden March 2005 Page 3

5 Work History, continued Nov 1998 Dec 1999 Creative Lead Sapient, Inc Sydney and London (8 months) Studio Archetype, Inc San Francisco (5 months) Head design team member responsible for coordinating and delivering creative strategy and acting as the client representative. Transferred the Studio Archetype methodologies and processes through mentoring to the Australian creative team. Conducted brand workshop for Commonwealth Bank Youth Department. Worked in London to deliver the original creative vision for Virgin.com. Lead the three-months of Concept Definition for Electronic Arts defining the original EA.com and EASports.com. Oct 1995 Oct 1998 Interactive designer (self-employed) Exuberance graphicmedia South Australia Established one of the first Web Design businesses in Australia. Developed interactive media for Toyota Australia, Lucent Technologies Asia, and a suite of products for The Federal Government of Australia. Exhibition visual design for Print Museum in Canberra. Art Director N Space Pty Ltd South Australia Sold Exuberance to N-Space and remained as the Art Director, assisting directly in completing over $2 million of online and multimedia projects. Helped establish N-Space as the premiere company in South Australia producing interactive media. Trained and mentored the creative team in interactive design. Secured a high-volume of projects entirely based on the creative bidding process. Set and maintained a high-level creative standard. Oct 1993 Sept 1995 Senior Visual Designer Deacon and Goh Advertising and Design South Australia Visual Designer Real Estate Institute of South Australia Justin Wilden March 2005 Page 4

6 Education Bachelor of Arts University of South Australia 1993 Technical and Further Education College (South Australia) Certifi cate in Multimedia 1994 Certifi cate in Electronic Imaging 1994 Executive Diploma in Business Planning Enterprise Workshop 1994 Matriculation Marion High School (South Australia) 1988 Awards Australian Financial Review/Telstra Internet Awards National Wine of Australia web site Best Industry Web Site 1998 Best Industry Web Site 1997 South Australian Government State Electoral Office web site Finalist Government Web Site 1997 Justin Wilden March 2005 Page 5