Nick Ridley

Current

• Creative Director & Founder at FIT
• Freelance Web Designer at DDB London
• Freelance Digital Designer at nick ridley design

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Past

• Freelance designer at M&C Saatchi
• Freelance Designer at Pirata
• Freelance Flash Designer at Sony

• Senior Freelance designer at Profero
• Senior Flash Designer at Mook Digital
• Senior Designer for Skype, eBay and Blackberry Europe at Albion London
• Lead Digital Designer (Freelance) at Publicis Blueprint
• Senior Digital Creative at Glue London
• Senior Designer at Agency.com
• Freelancer Designer at Albion
• Web/Interactive Design at Ogilvy Interactive
• Web/Print Design at EF Education (Self-employed)
• Interactive Designer at OgilvyOne
• Web Design /CMS XHTML CSS Coding at CFBT (Self-employed)
• Animator/ Web Design at Fresh01 (Self-employed)
• Web Design at Dodek (Self-employed)
• Intern at JP Morgan and Chase New York (Self-employed)

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Connections

138 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• My Website
• FIT
• TWITTER

Nick Ridley’s Summary

Nick Ridley’s Specialties:

• Photoshop – Advanced
• Illustrator – Advanced
• Image Ready – Advanced
• In Design – Intermediate
• Flash (AS 2.0)– Intermediate
• Eyeblaster, Flash Talking - Advanced
• Dreamweaver – Advanced
• (x) HTML – Advanced
• CSS, W3 - Intermediate
• PHP – Beginner
• Microsoft Office – Advanced
• Final cut – Advanced
• Ableton Live – Advanced
• Sound Forge – Advanced
• After Effects - Advanced
• Japanese – Advanced
• French – Intermediate

Nick Ridley’s Experience

• Creative Director & Founder

  FIT

  (Privately Held; Design industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

  FIT is a London based boutique specialising in web design and digital production. We work with some of London's top agencies, providing website, email and flash banner design/build.
  
  All of our services are offered in either English and Japanese, as we are a bilingual agency, one of the only of it's kind based in Europe.

• Freelance Web Designer

  DDB London

  (Public Company; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  October 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Designing emails, flash banners and websites.

• Freelance Digital Designer

  nick ridley design

  (Design industry)

  January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

  Freelance Digital Creative

• Freelance designer

  M&C Saatchi

  (Public Company; SAA; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  October 2009 — October 2009 (1 month)

  Worked on a Jameson Whiskey Rich Media Banner. After Effects and Media Server.

• Freelance Designer

  Pirata

  (Design industry)

  July 2009 — July 2009 (1 month)

  Oakley and Walkers. Flash/After Effects banners

• Freelance Flash Designer

  Sony

  (Public Company; SNE; Consumer Electronics industry)

  July 2009 — July 2009 (1 month)

  flash design

• Senior Freelance designer

  Profero

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  July 2009 — July 2009 (1 month)

  Flash and web layouts.

• Senior Flash Designer

  Mook Digital

  (Privately Held; Design industry)

  May 2009 — May 2009 (1 month)

  Animated and integrated Footlocker banner adverts into Eyeblaster.

• Senior Designer for Skype, eBay and Blackberry Europe

  Albion London

  (Design industry)

  April 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 2 months)

• Lead Digital Designer (Freelance)

  Publicis Blueprint

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

  June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)

  Head online design for ADSA's September magazine.

• Senior Digital Creative

  Glue London

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

  June 2008 — July 2008 (2 months)

  senior designer for sony and the sun.

• Senior Designer

  Agency.com

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; ACOM; Internet industry)

  February 2008 — April 2008 (3 months)

  Senior Designer for BA

• Freelancer Designer

  Albion

  (Design industry)

  2007 — 2008 (1 year )

• Web/Interactive Design

  Ogilvy Interactive

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Design industry)

  August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)

  Web Design for American Express, BT, KODAK ...

• Web/Print Design

  EF Education (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 501-1000 employees; Design industry)

  January 2007 — August 2007 (8 months)

  Web Design for EF Education.

• Interactive Designer

  OgilvyOne

  (Public Company; Design industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

• Web Design /CMS XHTML CSS Coding

  CFBT (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 51-200 employees; Design industry)

  June 2006 — December 2006 (7 months)

  Web design for CFBT

• Animator/ Web Design

  Fresh01 (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

  June 2006 — September 2006 (4 months)

  Web Design, Flash Animation Design for SUBWAY, 99p STORES, ARGOS

• Web Design

  Dodek (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Design industry)

  June 2006 — September 2006 (4 months)

  Web Design for Tefal, Bonusprint and Various

• Intern

  JP Morgan and Chase New York (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 5001-10,000 employees; Design industry)

  May 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  Graphic Design

Additional Information

Nick Ridley’s Websites:

• My Website
• FIT
• TWITTER

Nick Ridley’s Interests:

design, audio experimentation, art, fashion, philosophy, noise.

Nick Ridley’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
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