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BRIAN MADDEN

GRAPHIC DESIGN

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USER INTERFACE DESIGN Tel: 0857693492

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BRIAN MADDEN MULTIMEDIA DESIGNER Tel: 0857693492 E: brianmaddenx@yahoo.co.uk

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BRIANMADDEN

Highly Creative & Detail Orientated Designer

I have established myself as multitalented designer, with the ability conceptualise and produce effective engaging content to client specification under tight deadlines.

+ WEB DEVELOPMENT + USER INTERFACE DESIGN + VIDEO PRODUCTION + ANIMATION + E LEARNING

In my role as a freelance designer I have a proven track record in developing projects from inception through to final delivery. For several of my clients and within my degree course, my collaborative, communication and project management skills are instrumental to the success of each project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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Highly proficient in areas of E Learning, graphic design and animation

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Very Strong interface design skills with keen eye for detail

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Formal training and experience in Animation

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Expert knowledge of web design and development

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Experience in Video Production through commercial projects

PROGRAMS Adobe Flash

Adobe Captivate

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Dreamweaver

Adobe Premiere

LET’S CONNECT: Linkedin

Creativity

Team Player

Meets Deadlines

Detail Orientated

Results Driven

EDUCATION 2009-13

Multimedia Programming & Design BA Honours Degree - First Class Honours Limerick Institute of Technology

1999-2002

Animation Diploma - Distinction Dun Laoghaire Institute of Technology, Art & Design

EXPERIENCE 2010 Freelance

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Howth Coast Guard

Creating water safety Mascot and brochure about Water Safety

2012

IDF Marketing

6 Month

Created Video testimonials for a number of key clients including Dominos Pizza, NTES and BlueBird Care

2013

ZooPhonics

Final Year

2011 Freelance

Alison E Learning

Creating high quality graphics and animation for E Learning Applications

2011 Freelance

Edel Rohnfeld - Chair Yoga

Filming, editing and production of Chair Yoga DVD available on Amazon.co.uk.

• Devising online marketing campaign and distribution strategy.

• The success of this campaign led to Singing Dragon Press purchasing DVD distribution rights.

Awarded: Distinction

Development of E Learning Flash application aimed at

improving children’s reading skills through phonics.

Project

• Conceptual design and animation.

• Actionscript programming of Flash game.

• Layout Design and coding of supporting website.

• Working closely with key clients.

• Producing content to highly professional standard.

• Effective time management to meet deadlines.

2012

ELAB

3rd Year Project

2009-12

Awarded: Distinction

Project Manager and Lead UI Designer for Asset Management System

• Designing User interface and System Architecture.

• Developing project strategy which ensured project met all milestones and was successfully completed on time and to exact brief specifications.

• Assigning tasks and ensuring work was completed on time and to a professional standard.

• Development of Time management and Risk Assessment Strategies.

LIT Learning Support Centre

Providing Web Development and Design Tuition to students

PORTFOLIO

Graphic Design

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ELAB PROJECT

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User Interface Design

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Final year Project

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E LEARNING

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ILLUSTRATION

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01 | Graphic Design 01 Here is a sample of graphic design work including promotional projects and commissons.

01 | Business card and logo design 02 | Commission poster for Vintage Clothing Boutique 03 | Water safety Mascot for Howth CoastGuard 04 | Top Trump style promotional card 05 | Commission Logo for Coffee shop 06 | Commission from Limerick Institute of Technology for Multimedia showcase Programs: Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop

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02 | Final Year Project

Zoophonics Zoophonics is an interactive E Learning application aimed at improving children’s vocabulary and reading skills through synthetic phonics based learning. The application was created as part of my Final Year Project in Multimedia Programming & Design at LIT. JAVA, XML and Web technologies are employed to communicate with a richly illustrated Adobe Flash game and dynamically create word based puzzles within the game. The game itself is constructed using Object Orientated ActionScript 3.0 VIEW DEMO HERE >

Program: Adobe Illustrator Adobe Flash Adobe Photoshop Adobe Dreamweaver Netbeans IDE Languages: Actionscript 3.0 Java HTML 5 & CSS3 SQL

Zoophonics Flash Game

The premise of the game is that one of the animals has stolen all the words and hidden the words throughout the seven levels of the Zoo. The player must solve a series of phonics based puzzles on each level that allows them to unlock the next level on the map and progress through the game.

Each level takes place in a different part of the Zoo where a different animal guides the player through the puzzles for that level. Each level uses a mixture of audio and visual clues to assist the player in solving the puzzles.

Zoophonics Website

Zoophonics features an online supporting website created using HTML 5 & CSS3, that allows administrators to login to their accounts and select a range of words loaded from the database and create an XML file which loads the words into the Zoophonics Flash game embedded in the site.

The site also includes a login section where users can access and edit their own profiles, create customised avatars select a list of words from the puzzle table to dynamically load into the Zoophonics game.

The functionality for the site was created using JAVA and Model View Architecture in order to add, update and retrieve data from a database. The Adobe Flash game is embedded in the website and is only accessible once a user has logged in to their user profile.

01 | Zoophonics Homepage 02 | Dropdown Login 03 | Puzzle Table 04 | Gallery Page

03 | ELAB Project The ELAB Project was a 3rd Year college assignment, that involved the creation of an online booking system that allowed students to create user accounts and login in to request equipment online. Lectures could access admin accounts and either approve or cancel a student’s request.

The lecturers divided the class into three different development teams each with five students per team.

I was appointed the role of Project Manager for my team . As Project Manager I was responsible for assigning tasks to each team member, planning the development strategy and creating a development timeframe , liaising with our lecturer who acted in the role of client and project supervisor, ensuring that all work was delivered on time and to the highest possible standard .

As well as my role of Project Manager I was also lead designer on the project and was responsible for creating the user interface for the Admin and Student accounts. as well as playing a key role in the development stage of the project.

04 | E Learning

Alison E learning In 2011 I completed a 6 month contract with Alison, an E learning company based in Galway.

I was responsible for creating highly detailed vector graphics for an elearning application commissionedbyoneofAlison’slargestclients.

The role required the ability to create a large volumeofgraphicsonadailybasisasquicklyand efficiently as possible while meeting the exact specifciations outlined in the brief.

Programs: Adobe Illustrator Cs6 Adobe Flash Cs6

E LEARNING ANIMATION I recently completed an animation graphics test for an E Learning Company VIEW ANIMATION HERE >

Programs: Adobe Illustrator Cs6 Adobe Flash Cs6

In 2010 I developed an E Learning application designed at educating young teenagers about knife crime. The application contained educational animations, and an actionscript coded quiz.

Programs: Adobe Illustrator Cs6 Adobe Flash Cs6 Adobe Captivate

05 | User interface Design 01 Program: Adobe Photoshop 01 | Redesign of Portfolio Website 02 | Retro Inspired verison of Website

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06 | Illustration 01 A series of illustrations created with the aim of exploring and experimenting a variety of techniques such as photo manipulation, digital painting, and vector illustration.

01 | LCD Soundystem 02 | Lykke Li 03 | In Limbo

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