Design Guru & Entrepreneur
United Kingdom
- Current
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- Creative Director & Founder at Caffeinehit Ltd
- Past
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- Design & UI Consultant at MyBuilder.com
- Design & UI Consultant at Gekko
- Design & UI Consultant at Trusted Places
- Creative Lead at Kindo
- Design & UI Consultant at Socialight
- Digital Designer at MTV Networks
- Senior Designer at Apple Corps Ltd
- Designer at Yahoo! UK
- Education
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- Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
- Northbrook College
- Haywards Heath College
- Lewes Old Grammar School
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Andy Ashburner’s Summary
Andy Ashburner’s Specialties:
Web Design, Graphic Design, SEO, Marketing, Promotion, e-Commerce, web 2.0, web 3.0, UI Design, CSS, HTML, Social Network Design, Web Development, Python, Django, PHP, Javascript
Andy Ashburner’s Experience
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Creative Director & Founder
Caffeinehit Ltd
(Design industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
I set up Caffeinehit in 2006 but didn't 'put it into action' until August 2007. Since then it's gone from strength to strength pulling clients from across the UK, New York and Amsterdam.
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Design & UI Consultant
MyBuilder.com
(Internet industry)
August 2008 — October 2008 (3 months)
Helping with the revamp of the MyBuilder.com website, strengthening the website branding and fine tuning the website UI.
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Design & UI Consultant
Gekko
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 2008 — October 2008 (8 months)
Working as the creative lead and UI designer for this exciting new startup in Amsterdam.
This site is set to shake up the industry so watch this space! -
Design & UI Consultant
Trusted Places
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
August 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 3 months)
Helping the TrustedPlaces team with design feedback on products and ideas as well as designing UI elements and promotional elements.
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Creative Lead
Kindo
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — September 2008 (10 months)
Lead creative dealing with all user interface design and general site design on the site.
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Design & UI Consultant
Socialight
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2008 — March 2008 (3 months)
Contract work in New York and London to redesign the Socialight website.
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Digital Designer
MTV Networks
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VIA; Entertainment industry)
September 2006 — August 2007 (1 year )
I was the digital designer at MTV dealing with day to day updates and design elements for mtv.co.uk and MTV Flux.
Since leaving MTV in 2007 I have been been back to re-design the news and homepage. They then implimented the changes I made across the entire site. -
Senior Designer
Apple Corps Ltd
(Music industry)
April 2003 — September 2006 (3 years 6 months)
I worked as the Senior Designer / Merchandise Designer for Apple.
Whilst working there I worked on a number of projects including the design of the beatles.com store and designing the global style guide for The Beatles, the Beatles cartoon and Yellow Submarine. Designing assets and merchandise globally for the Beatles brand. Designing DVD covers and working as the creative contact for the Beatles Love Cirque de Soleil show in Las Vegas. -
Designer
Yahoo! UK
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Internet industry)
April 2002 — April 2003 (1 year 1 month)
I worked as the designer in the production team in the Yahoo! UK office in London. My roles ranged from working on promotions, designing pitches for clients and re-designing elements across the Yahoo website.
Andy Ashburner’s Education
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Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
BA Hons , Graphic Design & Advertising , 1999 — 2001
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Northbrook College
Diploma , Art & Design , 1998 — 1999
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Haywards Heath College
1996 — 1998
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Lewes Old Grammar School
1987 — 1996
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Andy Ashburner’s Interests:
Music, Design, Ideas, Movies, Eating Out, Travelling and of course... Coffee.
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