Robert Fransgaard

Current

Creative Lead at Redhouse Lane Communications

Past

Digital Art Director and Information Designer at Fransgaard Creative
Digital Director at Communicator
Head of Creative at Vivid Lime

Senior Designer at Fortune Cookie
Senior Designer at London Web Communications
Freelance Web Designer at Freelance
Assistant Art Director at Pind Marketing
Work Placement at Grey/Odense

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Robert Fransgaard’s Summary

A london based digital art director and information designer who with a decade of experience has successfully developed and enhanced the online presence of his clients. See work examples on www.fransgaard.com

Robert Fransgaard’s Specialties:

Online strategy and user experience management. Digital art direction and conceptual delivery, interactive design, multi-channel digital marketing, Flash, web standards and fully accessibility compliant web design.

Robert Fransgaard’s Experience

Creative Lead

Redhouse Lane Communications

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

Leading the interactive creative delivery from the front independent of digital channel.

So far clients include Business Stream, Tavistock & Portman and London Thames Gateway Development Corporation.
Digital Art Director and Information Designer

Fransgaard Creative

(Online Media industry)

February 2009 — April 2009 (3 months)
Digital Director

Communicator

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 2008 — February 2009 (8 months)

Managing digital production resources. As the role evolved it did become clear it was a web technology director role and not a creative role.

As such it wasn't the right job for me, but nice company to work with.

Clients include Lanson, Hovis and Starbucks.
Head of Creative

Vivid Lime

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

November 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 8 months)

I was hired as a part of a management team to take several in-house digital departments and turn them into a single competitive and independent digital agency.

My task was to lead and develop the creative team from a copywriter and myself to a 7 person strong creative department working on anything digital from small, quick-turn around banners, ppc campaigns and affiliate marketing campaigns to big cms-driven e-commerce sites.

Clients included MMT for GSMA, Columbus Insurance and the pan-european initiative Teach Today.
Senior Designer

Fortune Cookie

(Online Media industry)

October 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 1 month)

World-class website concepts, design and development focusing on superb usability and accessibility.

Clients included Legal & General, FT Business and One Railway
Senior Designer

London Web Communications

(Online Media industry)

August 1999 — October 2004 (5 years 3 months)

I joined London Web Communications as a Junior Designer when I moved to London and quickly rose to the position as Senior Designer.

During my time at London Web I started learning about online accessibility while keeping my Flash skills up to speed as well giving my skill set the rather unique combination of accessibility and Flash.

My role included website design and XHTML and CSS development for all types of businesses, B to C, B to B.

Clients included Royal British Legion, British Institute of Innkeeping and The Institute of the Motor Industry.
Freelance Web Designer

Freelance

(Online Media industry)

January 1999 — August 1999 (8 months)

Back in 1999 there wasn't really web design companies in Denmark so I started out as a Freelance Web Designer and together with Phuc van Dang we got a great gig at TeleDanmark ( Danish equivalent to BT) designing Dingelink.dk.

Dingelink.dk became the home for young Danish mobile phone users from spring 1999 to summer 2004 where it was taken offline.

During the time it was live it became one of the top ten most visited sites in Denmark. And it was a great portfolio piece to get me start in London.
Assistant Art Director

Pind Marketing

(Online Media industry)

October 1998 — December 1998 (3 months)

I had learned about the Internet during my studies at the School for visual Communication and when we graduated I was the only student with an online portfolio to show as I knew I wanted to work with digital design.

Based on this I quickly landed a job as Assistant Art Director for Pind Marketing.

However, it was not right job for me as they were content with staying in the printed area of the creative industry and I wanted to do digital design.
Work Placement

Grey/Odense

(Online Media industry)

October 1997 — November 1997 (2 months)

As part of my education I had a great work placement at Grey in Odense, Denmark.

Half of what I learned during my 3-year education, I learned in those 6 weeks as Grey didn't just give me bits and pieces to do, but they threw me in the deep end with real projects for real clients, which was great.