Designer / Illustrator / Sock monkey maker at Made in England
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Designer/Illustrator/Art Director at Made in England by Gentlemen
- Past
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- Designer/Illustrator/Art Director at POKE
- Information Architect & Interaction Designer at France Telecom R&D
- Designer/Illustrator at Glue London
- Interaction Designer at Nortel Networks
- Education
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- Northumbria University
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Simon Cook’s Summary
I've been drawing cartoon characters and stuff since I was 10, hope to be still doing it when I'm 70 :)
Simon Cook’s Specialties:
Drawing, designing websites, making stuff look good
Simon Cook’s Experience
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Designer/Illustrator/Art Director
Made in England by Gentlemen
(Design industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
At the moment I'm just working for myself picking up bits and pieces of whatever is interesting and available!
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Designer/Illustrator/Art Director
POKE
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2005 — May 2008 (2 years 9 months)
My role at Poke was mainly focussed on Web Design and Art Direction. I made everything from cock-doodling sites, charitable campaigns, sites for celebrities like David Gest and bread & butter stuff for clients like Orange and Yahoo. There was an inspiring collection of people working here and I learned a lot from them.
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Information Architect & Interaction Designer
France Telecom R&D
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; FTE; Telecommunications industry)
2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
This was an odd move for me in retrospect, I took the role mainly because of the team of old friends I was working with from my Nortel days. I was working on developing a new mobile phone operating system - I really enjoyed the problem solving and rigerous simplication of the IA, but I missed the creative side and didn't stay too long.
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Designer/Illustrator
Glue London
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
2001 — 2004 (3 years)
Initially hired as an illustrator and animator, I worked on a lot of online advertising campaigns from microsites to banner ads. I also developed my Web Design skills here and became lead designer on most major sites like Virgin Trains. During my time I even went on to define the whole indentity of glue as a brand.
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Interaction Designer
Nortel Networks
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NT; Telecommunications industry)
July 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 1 month)
I worked at Nortel first as a 6 month placement while I was a university, and then came back once I'd graduated. It was a really great job just thinking of possible future applications for the technology that their scientists were developing. A lot of brain storming and then creating interactive presentaions explaining our ideas. Sadly when the technology shares went through the floor in 2001 the whole department was axed...
Simon Cook’s Education
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Northumbria University
1st BA (hons) , Design for Industry , 1996 — 2000
Weird degree title, but it was basically Industrial Design/Product Design.
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Simon Cook’s Interests:
Drinking, drawing, designing and wishing there was a word to describe walking that begins with a 'd'.
Simon Cook’s Honors:
I came 4th place in the World Moustache growing championships once.
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