Hey there,
I'm Matt!
An Art Director, Illustrator, Print & Digital Designer, Film Maker, Prop & Set Designer, Writer, Necromancer, Fine Artist, Wizard...
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UX & UI Portfolio
Vision Direct
GigQwik
The Bottle Club
Eye Emporium
The 3rd Edge
At the age of 16, I started my design career, fitting it around my education at the time.
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The 3rd edge taught me all of the skills to survive in the design industry including the software, layout concepts & general theory - I learnt a lot more here than most of my friends at university, so I continued my career in design from this.
Historical Engineering
After 3 years working at The 3rd Edge, I moved on, working as a 3D & Concept artist, UX & UI Designer and anything they needed in between.
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Throughout this role I managed a small team of junior artists who were based in Moldova. Unfortunately the company ran into money troubles and I was made redundant a couple of years later.
2nd Studios
Off the back of redundancy I took a break between jobs to start freelancing & give myself a broader view of the design career, this took me down a path of HTML, Flash & actionscript Development & Design working for clients such as ANA airlines, YoYo Tech & a few smaller businesses in the Fintech industry.
Tag Worldwide
Once I had a little more experience of how the world worked I was offered a position at Tag Worldwide, a digital production agency, where from my coleagues I learnt video editing & some basic VFX, all the while producing banners and managing the client CMS.
Vision Direct
Starting off here as a mid-weight designer I came on to manage all of the companies creative output - from print and digital out of home adverts to onsite & digital marketing collateral including Emails & social imagery / layout.
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As well as this I was heavily involved in the branding, UX & UI of the website, creating pages to spec & code through their Magento CMS.
The Bottle Club
After which I started another permanent position at The Bottle Club, I was taken on to initially manage their ecommerce venture's back end system as well as create design collateral.
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This role evolved into a re-platform from Magento to Shopify and 2 re-designs & a re-brand of their entire outfit, whilst plugging out the digital and video content as well.
Matchbox Creative
Continually moving on I founded Matchbox Creative officially in the middle of 2019, setting up as a limited company.
Through this process I have found a passion for filmmaking, screenwriting & directing to bring beautiful projects to life - I have since created 10 of my own short films, including a mini web series and assisted on many others for university Masters programs to amateur film makers.
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