Motion and visual designer with over twenty years of practice. I spent the last eleven at Redbrick, where I rose from UX designer to Art Director and led video and motion design. I take work from concept and storyboard through to the shipped product, hands-on: product animation, brand motion systems and video.
Along the way I co-founded a game studio, and I know HTML and CSS well enough to design for how things get built. I've mentored the designers around me.
Led art direction and production for all video and motion graphics, mostly hands-on and end to end, directing other designers on selected projects. Spoke for brand and design with stakeholders on major initiatives, created identities for Redbrick's network of media websites, and designed responsive sites, working alongside the developers and the marketing, analytics and product teams.
Mentored designers on a creative team that grew from three to eight people.
The same range of work as a hands-on designer: video and motion graphics produced end to end, brand identities, and responsive website design.
First employee of Upwords, the Redbrick spinoff that became Assembly. Designed websites, products and brands.
Design generalist: branding, illustration, web design, and HTML and CSS.
Co-founded the studio and built several games with a partner, including the flagship, Squibble, which passed a million downloads.
Design and print production of various kinds, starting with two work terms during my degree.
Independent work across photography, videography, graphic design, illustration, motion design, animation and web design.
Product animation, Lottie, interaction prototyping, brand motion systems.
End-to-end production, from storyboard to final edit.
Illustration, brand and graphic design, photography.
Working knowledge of front-end development, performance budgets, email and mobile rendering.
After Effects, Figma, Lottie, the Adobe suite.
I had the pleasure of working with Mike at Redbrick, and he is genuinely the most talented Motion Designer and Videographer I've ever had the opportunity to work with. … I really valued the opportunities I had to learn from him, and whenever I received his feedback, I saw it as a great opportunity to learn and grow as a designer.
Mike is a motion wizard, whose technical skills are only surpassed by how thoughtful he is as a collaborator. From paid media ads, to web design, to large motion and video projects, can't recommend this guy enough!