Eric Powell

Current

• Sr. Art Director, Flash Designer, Composer, Sound Designer at Eric Powell

Past

• Sr. Art Director at Avenue A - Razorfish
• Contract Flash Designer at Tequila\ - TBWA Chiat Day
• Sr. Visual Designer at Rare Medium

• Sr. Web Designer at Virgin Entertainment
• Sr. Designer at Den (Digital Entertainment Network)
• Sr. Designer at Artist Direct
• Web Designer at Venu Interactive

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Education

• Full Sail Real World Education

Recommended

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Industry

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Websites

• My Portfolio

Eric Powell’s Summary

I have been involved in interactive entertainment, design, advertising and marketing for over a decade working with both small and large-scale advertising agencies, interactive shops, and in-house teams like TBWA\Chiat\Day, Avenue A/Razorfish, Rare Medium, Virgin Entertainment, and DNA Studios. I specialize in hands-on Art Direction and Flash Design for online media and have been responsible for the concept, design, direction, and deployment of projects for clients such as Coors, Best Buy, Molson, Nintendo, Dreamworks, Néstle, Lucas Arts, Sony, Microsoft, Nissan, Levi's, Apple and more.

In addition to my online experience I have been a signed recording artist and performer with a popular underground band since 1991 where I have released 6 full-length albums on major and independent labels as well as touring extensively in North America.

I am also an accomplished composer having scored movies for Lionsgate, MGM, and Open Sky Entertainment, provided music licenses for Microsoft, Speed TV, CBS, MTV, Sony Computer Entertainment and more.

Eric Powell’s Specialties:

Interactive Art Direction and Design for online entertainment, advertising and marketing including experience design, usability and animation. Music production and composition.

Eric Powell’s Experience

• Sr. Art Director, Flash Designer, Composer, Sound Designer

  Eric Powell

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)

  Concept, design, development and direction for several successful projects including websites and banner campaigns for Nike, Intel Nissan, Apple, Harmon-Kardon, Sony, Lucas Arts, Nintendo, Dreamworks, Wieden + Kennedy, Microsoft, Anheuser Busch, Best Buy, Sony Music, and Nestlé and more working with large agencies such as TBWA\Chiat\Day, Tequila, DNA Studio, Ignited Minds, Razorfish, and The Groop.
  
  Movie scores for Lionsgate, MGM, and Open Sky Entertainment, provided music licenses for Microsoft, Speed TV, CBS, MTV, Sony Computer Entertainment and more.

• Sr. Art Director

  Avenue A - Razorfish

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MSFT; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  June 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 6 months)

  Responsible for the concept, design and direction of online media and advertising for several large scale clients including Coors, Molson, Microsoft, Disney, Levi's and Best Buy.

• Contract Flash Designer

  Tequila\ - TBWA Chiat Day

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year)

• Sr. Visual Designer

  Rare Medium

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 2 months)

  Creative lead in user experience division of large-scale web services company. Resposible for designing high profile web sites and promotions for TiVo, Nestlé and Microsoft. Duties included strategy, branding, design, development, usability, and implementation.

• Sr. Web Designer

  Virgin Entertainment

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Entertainment industry)

  December 1999 — March 2000 (4 months)

  Responsible for the design and development of the Virgin Megastore E-commerce website. Developed and maintained several branded promotions and projects including the design and development of Radio Free Virgin.

• Sr. Designer

  Den (Digital Entertainment Network)

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Entertainment industry)

  August 1999 — December 1999 (5 months)

  Supervised the Programming and design team for the Digital Entertainment Network Portal. Designed, developed, and implemented major elements throughout the website including the user interface and partnered interactive promotions.

• Sr. Designer

  Artist Direct

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Entertainment industry)

  February 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 7 months)

  Designed, developed, and implemented all custom branded web site promotions for major clients such as Lexus, Nestlé, Energizer, Backstreet Boys, John Mellencamp, Psygnosis Games, and more.

• Web Designer

  Venu Interactive

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  January 1996 — June 1996 (6 months)

  I worked as a contract web designer at this boutique interactive shop that was purchased during the dotcom boom by e-companies. I was responsible for design, html and image optimization for Home Savings Bank Online.

Eric Powell’s Education

• Full Sail Real World Education

  Recording Engineering and Production 1989 — 1989

  Certificates received in Recording Engineering and Production, Tapeless Studio production and Digital Media.

Additional Information

Eric Powell’s Websites:

• My Portfolio

Eric Powell’s Honors:

• 2007 Webby Awards Honoree (Art Direction and Flash animation for Coors "Dirk" Campaign)
• 2006 IAC Award Winner for achievement in an online rich media banner campaign (Concept, Art Direction and Flash Animation for Logitech Quickcam)
• 2006 Pixel Awards Geek Nominee (Production Design for iRadio Flash Piece)
• 2003 How Design Magazine - Interactive "Best of Show" (DVD Programmer for W+K Tokyo Lab)