Creative Director at FameCast
Austin, Texas Area
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- Creative Director at FameCast
- Past
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- Creative Protagonist at BeyondBeyond
- Founder, Senior Vice President of Creative & Human Factor at iTaggit inc.
- Creative Director / Owner at BeyondBeyond (Sole Proprietorship)
- Creative Director at Digital Lifestyles Group
- Creative Director / President at BeyondBeyond (Sole Proprietorship)
- VP of Creative / Partner at Stark + Hopkins + Scott
- Senior Interactive Art Director at SicolaMartin
- Senior art director at Dahlin Smith White
- Senior Art Director at J. Walter Thompson - Dallas
- Designer at McCann Erickson - Dallas
- Art Director / Designer at Strategic Promotions - Dallas
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Duncan Hopkins’s Summary
I have over twenty years experience in advertising, marketing branding and graphic design. Over 12 years experience in interactive UI design and development. Familiar with each step in the process I can take any project from womb to tomb. hands on concepting to department management. I believe in delivering a quality product in anything i do, ask any of my clients or business associates.
Duncan Hopkins’s Specialties:
Branding and identity, web design, graphic design, photography, traditional illustration, interactive, Usablilty design, sales promotion. marketing, creative department business management, information architecture.
Duncan Hopkins’s Experience
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Creative Director
FameCast
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)
June 2008 — Present (6 months)
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Creative Protagonist
BeyondBeyond
(Graphic Design industry)
January 2008 — June 2008 (6 months)
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Founder, Senior Vice President of Creative & Human Factor
iTaggit inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
April 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 10 months)
Founding partner responsible for the branding, design UI and development for iTaggit.com. Manage offshore development team, marketing internal and external.
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Creative Director / Owner
BeyondBeyond (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)
May 2005 — April 2006 (1 year)
http://www.beyondbeyond.com
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Creative Director
Digital Lifestyles Group
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; DLFG; Computer Hardware industry)
May 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Responsible for the Branding and corporate identity of company and it's products. managing creative department,working with advertising agencies and contracters to deliver quality services.
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Creative Director / President
BeyondBeyond (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
January 1999 — May 2004 (5 years 5 months)
one of the top 25 web design agencies in Austin for 2000 - 2002, I was owner, Creative Director working with some of the best clients in austin.
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VP of Creative / Partner
Stark + Hopkins + Scott
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Founding partner for Agency working with clients such as Netspeed, Cisco, Trilogy
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Senior Interactive Art Director
SicolaMartin
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
1994 — 1998 (4 years)
Managed creative side of interactive dept. CD-rom and web site design for such clients as Dell, IBM, Motorola, Citrix, Novell.
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Senior art director
Dahlin Smith White
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year)
For a year when working for SicolaMartin, i left to work for DSW as the senior art director on intel's web site, also working for such clients as netscape and iomega. My wife and I made a personal decision to move back to austin. otyherwise i would not have left this wonderful opportunity.
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Senior Art Director
J. Walter Thompson - Dallas
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
1993 — 1994 (1 year)
Senior Art director for Clients including Texas instruments, medical and senior living companies, restaurants and telecommunications.
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Designer
McCann Erickson - Dallas
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
1990 — 1993 (3 years)
worked Specifically on the consumer division of Texas Instruments account creating package design and interactive demos for their consumer products.
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Art Director / Designer
Strategic Promotions - Dallas
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
1983 — 1990 (7 years)
started in this company as production artist - left as an art director / designer. I worked on every kind of sales promotion and marketing aspect designing print and POP, directing Photography, Commercials, and radio
for clients including Popeyes , Bennigans, Dairy Queen, Big Red soft drinks, Amalie motor oil, Lone Star Beer, Llano Estecado winery, Merico Food Service
Additional Information
Duncan Hopkins’s Websites:
Duncan Hopkins’s Interests:
art, illustration, web creation, blogging, painting miniature figures. I have many collections, from movie monsters and pulp fiction artwork to comics and rare books. see my website: - http://www.beyondbeyond.com
Duncan Hopkins’s Groups:
AIGA, Cub Scouts -I'm a Leader for my son's pack.
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NetworkInAustin.com
Duncan Hopkins’s Honors:
many design awards through out my tenure in advertising agencies for print and interactive design, My company, Syndetic Design was in top 25 web design agencies for 3 years running.
Duncan Hopkins’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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