Rik Catlow

Current

VP; Senior Visual Designer, Mobile Banking & ATM at Bank of America
Principal Designer/ Founder at Rikcat Industries
Exhbiting Artist at Rikcat.com

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Past

Design Director at bizjournals.com
Lead Visual Designer at United Media
Contract: Web Designer at Bol.com / Bertelsmann

Art Director at Clickthebutton.com
Art Director at Bluefly.com
Senior Designer at N2K/CDNow

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Education

Kubert School

Recommended

6 people have recommended Rik

Connections

275 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Rik Catlow’s Summary

Product development and design direction for premium internet brands. Interested in developing compelling, easy to use sites that serve both the users and the business.

Rik Catlow’s Specialties:

Product Development, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Graphic Design, Web Standards, HTML Coding, Art Direction, PHP/MYSQL

Rik Catlow’s Experience

VP; Senior Visual Designer, Mobile Banking & ATM

Bank of America

(Public Company; BAC; Banking industry)

November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

Lead the development of wireframes, visual design and style guide for Bank of America's Mobile Banking application for the Blackberry Storm that was successfully launched on Jan 9th 2009. Provided XHTML/CSS3 coding expertise to implement Bank of America's extended iPhone web experience that launched in early 2009. Worked with usability engineers to conduct testing for high level concepts and future site vision work. Executed the end to end mobile experience for the banks Morris on Campus advertising campaign. Designed iconography for all of the banks mobile banking applications.
Principal Designer/ Founder

Rikcat Industries

(Internet industry)

July 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)
Exhbiting Artist

Rikcat.com

(Arts and Crafts industry)

November 1997 — Present (12 years 1 month)

See more work @ http://www.rikcat.com
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Selected Exhibitions
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7/08 - New Works - TAG Art Gallery
11/07 - Midnight Garden - Foundation One Gallery
11/06 - What the Deuce! - Museum of Television & Radio
12/06 - Mike Burnett’s NeighborWOOD
4/06 - What's New - Lab 101 Gallery
3/05 - Everything but the Kitschen Synch - La Luz de Jesus
Design Director

bizjournals.com

(Newspapers industry)

February 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 10 months)

Provided leadership, design comps, wireframes and XHTML/CSS coding on the redesigned bizjournal.com, that was successfully deployed in March 2006. Evangelized web standards and usability best practices to increase speed and ease of use site wide. Helped architect the companies approach to technical development, from data collection to front-end development. Introduced user centered design concepts to the company and help strategize around audience development. Supervised and mentored junior staff members and delegated incoming projects. Worked with editorial and sales staffs to implement new initiatives and editorial packages. Evaluated and recommended outside vendors for integration into all sites and editorial work flows.
Lead Visual Designer

United Media

(Public Company; SSP; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2002 — May 2004 (2 years 5 months)

Created, devised and implemented all design aspects and elements for the web sites Comics.com, Dilbert.com and Snoopy.com, as well as all United Media corporate and business web sites, including unitedfeatures.com and unitedmedia.com. Revised and created wireframes, mockups and layouts for existing and new areas and pages of United Media’s web sites. Recommended and created original illustrations for use in promotional and marketing campaigns. Developed web advertising banners and banner concepts to promote and market United Media content on internal web sites and external advertising partners. Supervised and mentored junior designers and freelance designers as needed. Helped conceptualize, design and launch a new subscription service that created a new revenue stream for the company.
Contract: Web Designer

Bol.com / Bertelsmann

(Internet industry)

November 2000 — June 2001 (8 months)
Art Director

Clickthebutton.com

(Internet industry)

March 2000 — November 2000 (9 months)
Art Director

Bluefly.com

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Retail industry)

May 1999 — November 1999 (7 months)
Senior Designer

N2K/CDNow

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

February 1996 — May 1999 (3 years 4 months)