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Resume

Tristam Sparks
tristam.sparks@gmail.com

Current objective

I am seeking full time employment in a mid level to leadership role within a diverse and dynamic creative environment. I am looking to exercise, not only the skills that I have in branding, GUI and screen based design, but to use these tools to help shape the the entire user experience.


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Education

June 2006
Graduated with a Master in Arts in Interaction design.
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy.

1999
Graduated with a Honours Degree in Computer Graphic design.
Wanganui School of Design, New Zealand


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Skills Summary

Online and Offline Use experience
Software Prototyping
User Centered design
User Experience Prototyping
Screen & Print Typography
Motion graphic design
Identity and information systems design
Iconographic design
Digital film making

I have a high level of conceptual thought in the design process or inception of idea. I strive for the original in my work. Completing a Masters degree in Interaction design was important to me, as it enabled me to exercise design across a great number of newer disciplines, at the same time enabling me to focus on things that were of immediate personal concern: the attractive and utile representation of information in a conceptual framework that is engaging, entertaining and enabling for the audience.

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Experience

September 2002 � March 2004
Designer: Print, Web & Motion graphics. SV Design and Communication, Berlin.
Primarily responsible for original and translations of print identity and communications strategies into media ranging from motion graphics to the web. Also responsible for the expansion of the studios business onto the internet: allowing them to access and facilitate communication strategies and explore use experiences that were otherwise not part of their commercial design offerings. Designed web interfaces for both cold coded sites and serverside client applications.

March 2001 � February 2002
Freelance Designer. Video, Web & Print. Various Clients. London & Berlin.
Primarily responsible for shifting and translating communications from one medium to another whilst ensuring that the relative benefit of each media was preserved and capitalised upon. Projects were produced for the Berlin Brandenburg International airport project and for Zanders Fine paper GmbH.

November 2000 � September 2003
Designer, Animator & Instructor. School of LCC, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia.
Primarily employed to art direct, design and execute communication strategies, promotional material and software experience prototypes for a primarily art based experimental projects. In addition to this, assistance and guidance was provided to graduate students for their conceptual and production concerns. Other Identity and communications applications were also produced for the school in both print and on the web.

October � November 2000
Designer: Animation & Broadcast TV Commercials. Saatchi & Saatchi, Wellington, New Zealand.
Capitalising on earlier work for Saatchi & Saatchi, I was solely responsible for the animation design and production of an award winning TV commercial. After the first project (below) this was the second foray into desktop post production of high end TV commercials for the agency.

March � November 2000
Designer & Web Production: Web & Print. Gibson Rusden, Wellington, New Zealand.
As the web began to make its impression permanent in the environments of Graphic design and brand strategies, I was responsible for enabling this small boutique design and communications agency find a footing on the internet, at the same time becoming responsible for designing websites for new and existing clients.

August 1999 � February 2000
Full time Designer: Web, TV & Cinema. Saatchi & Saatchi Interactive, Wellington, New Zealand.
Responsible for the design and production of websites, web advertising and high end animation for both cinema and television. The work completed here in both the on- and offline environments encompassed everything from two dimensional, static design to high impact design produced in Flash and After Effects.

June�August 1999
Full Time Tutor. Wanganui School of Design, New Zealand.
Employed to assist and provide guidance to undergraduate students for their conceptual, production and
creative growth.

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Tools

Expert
After Effects, CSS, Dreamweaver, Final Cut Pro, Fontographer, Freehand, HTML, Illustrator, Image Ready, InDesign, Macintosh OSX, Photoshop

Intermediate
Javascript, Director, Flash

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Achievements

2006
Masters Thesis Project: �The Undiscovered Country� � Enabling Democracy through Communications Technology.

Exhibited xBlocks during a 10 day exhibition at Salone di Mobile, Milan Italy. As a result the project also gained widespread attention on professional and special interest blogs. In addition it was published in numerous European publications.

2005
xBlocks, a result of the Mattel Workshop �Play Experiences for the Next Generation,� was a finalist presented at their design headquarters in LA as a potential addition to their product line.

2005 � 2006
Student representative at Interaction Ivrea. Along with representing student opinion, I worked closely with faculty and students communicating and organising the successful shift of the institute from Ivrea to Milan.

2003
Worked with the Profile Intermedia Team in Bremen, Germany for the facilitation, design and production of their wide range of communications strategies to promote the successful design conference series.

2001
Work selected for the �ikons on ikono� series of special edition prints for Zanders GmbH.

Black Grace received a Certificate of Excellence from The New York Type Directors Club: inclusion in
Typography 22 (USA.)

2000
Biomorphictype� shown at ISEA (Paris) and Profile Intermedia 3 (Germany.)

The Riot of Spring cinema ad received awards from: The New York Type Directors Club (Certificate of Excellence and Inclusion in Typography 21, USA), Silver from the D&AD (UK), 2 Axis Awards, Special Effects & Typography (NZL.)

1999
Undergraduate Honours Thesis Project: �How can �convergence technologies� be best used to improve news delivery?�

Art Direction/Project co-ordinator of Student Video Presentation at the Wanganui Student Design Conference,
DesignCamp 4: "What about design Today?"



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Interaction design www.restlesseye.com/interact/
Motion graphic design www.restlesseye.com/motion/
Web design www.restlesseye.com/interact/web/
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