Hello. My name’s Damian Smith. I’m a designer and art director who has helped to sell all sorts from houses and holidays to vans, cars and model planes. I’ve designed the lot from web and email, to ads and direct mail, turning ideas into imagery in chilly studios and under blazing foreign suns. Funny things amuse me, good music moves me, films and telly thrill me, friends and family soothe me. And that’s me.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Campaign Works, Herts - Senior Designer and Art Director - May 2011 until present
In my present role I am lead creative and brand guardian on numerous accounts. I assist the Creative Director in his managerial and logistical responsibilities in the studio, and stand in for that role in his absence. I regularly meet with and present to clients. I design brand literature, adverts, direct mail, websites, emails, as well as photographic and motion art direction. I oversee casting sessions and location scouting, and work with production teams and stylists. Amongst my responsibilities are giving creative lead to artworkers and junior designers. Clients include: Axelos, Mitsubishi Electric, Greene King, Pearson, BPP, LivingWell, OAG, Hilton, Affinity Water, DW Windsor.

Freelance design and art direction - Oct 2010 - May 2011
Mass, Bedfordshire
Freestone, Buckinghamshire
Cygnus, Northamptonshire

BMB, Luton - Senior Designer/Art Director - 2005 until 2010
Clients included: Vauxhall, Saab, Chevrolet, General Motors UK,
Belvoir Lettings, Elster Group

Senior King, London / Luton - Designer - 2001 - 2004
Clients included: Historic Royal Palaces, Littlewoods Football Pools, Isle of Man Tourism

ADH Publishing, Beds - Magazine Designer - 2000 - 2001

Gosling Design, Herts - Junior Designer - 1998 - 2000

QUALIFICATIONS

Oxfordshire School of Art, Banbury, Oxon - 1994-1996
BA Hons in Graphic Design and Illustration (De Montfort University)
HND in Graphic Design

Barnfield College, Luton, Beds - 1992-1994
ND in Graphic Design
A-Level in Film Studies

Challney High School, Luton, Beds - 1987-1992
9 GCSE’s Grade C and above