Austin Maguire

Multimedia, Web & Graphic lead Designer with 9 years industry experience // Graduated as a Product Designer with a 1.1 Degree in Industrial Design from NCAD, Dublin.

Worked as a Product Designer in Denmark for 15 months at Goodmorning Technology, a principle Design Studio in Copenhagen. Worked on a number of product and packaging projects including Sony Ericsson / Interactive Retail Experience, Widex / iF Award winning packaging for Hearing Aid system, Outsider / Public LED Furniture, Holmegaard / Lighting Range, Scansonic / Casino Radio, and Ambu / Medical Needle,

Work involved liaising with Graphics / Web Design and Development team which fostered a real excitement for the ever evolving possibilities offered by these disciplines. Returned to Dublin to complete an 8 month Web Design Course, on graduating secured a position with Ambient Project Web Design & Graphic Studio.

Worked for 5 years at Ambient Project as Creative Director, liaising with clients and producing/directing all the designs for high quality website and graphic projects for print and web. For examples of all my design work appearance and structure visit www.ambientproject.com/recent-clients.

Working at Sage Technologies in City West as creative lead in multimedia, and brand Ambassador, developing and implementing an exciting new brand identity for application across multiple international regions.

Producing graphics for UI/UX, printed brochures, digital eBooks, infographics, exhibition/conference graphics and interior wall images and decals. Using Adobe Creative Cloud on a daily basis, jumping every few minutes from Photoshop CC, to Illustrator CC and InDesign CC for print and digital graphics.