David Burgess

Current

Conceptual Interactive Designer / Digital Art Director at Freelance - Pixelsoup.co.uk

Past

Senior Digital Art Director at McCann Erickson
Graphic Designer, Freelance at pixelsoup.co.uk
Freelance in Graphic Design at Sydney Australia

Graphic Designer at Connectpoint Advertising & Marketing Manchester

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David Burgess’s Experience

Conceptual Interactive Designer / Digital Art Director

Freelance - Pixelsoup.co.uk

(Design industry)

2009 — Present (1 year )

Conceptual Interactive Designer / Digital Art Director, Specialising in digital in all it's guises; interactive design, online advertising, video, motion...
Senior Digital Art Director

McCann Erickson

(Public Company; IPG; Marketing and Advertising industry)

1997 — 2009 (12 years )

I am a Senior Digital Art Director currently working for McCann-Erickson, Manchester, I have over fifteen years of conceptual design / advertising experience for print, web and film / motion graphics, preceded by five years spent at art college.

I specialise in digital interactive, producing projects from concept to completion for blue chip clients, working on global briefs (example: durex.com a global site in 64 languages with dynamic flash content all produced by myself).

Latest project:
Phil Vickery’s Cooking Academy
Concept, design, podcast art direction, flash build
Response: Well received, adopted by the goverment for the National Curriculum

I have been a Senior member of the McCann-Erickson interactive team for ten years, overseeing and mentoring numerous members of staff with a varied skill sets and goals. Please contact me with any exciting opportunities...
Graphic Designer, Freelance

pixelsoup.co.uk

(Design industry)

May 1996 — May 1997 (1 year 1 month)

Freelance Designer. I spent the vast majority of the year working freelance at McCann Erickson, in the creative department. I also had a few other placements around the Manchester area. I eventually decided to take full time employment at McCann’s.
Freelance in Graphic Design

Sydney Australia

(Design industry)

February 1995 — May 1996 (1 year 4 months)

Freelance Graphic Designer. Twelve months spent working in Sydney, Australia. In what was a very busy exciting year I had numerous freelance placements in a broad range of companies. For example JWT, Ball Partnership, Ogilvy Mather, AMP, Hale Agency, Gas Works whose clients include such as Epsom, AMP, American Express, Toshiba, TDK, The Rocks. Each placement was a different challenge lasting anywhere between just one week to three months.
Graphic Designer

Connectpoint Advertising & Marketing Manchester

(Design industry)

August 1993 — March 1995 (1 year 8 months)

Involved from day one of trading, even in the purchasing the first computer and creating the first job. Following jobs through from brief to final artwork, a full service agency with a large variety of clients both above and below the line (i.e. Airtours, Amec, Boeing, Tricity Bendix, Manchester United F.C, Family Hampers) I was able to gain a vast variety of varied knowledge into most aspects of agency life ranging from packaging, poster and leaflet design to corporate identity and brochure design.