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Tomas Laurinavicius
Designer, Entrepreneur & Adventurer
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Industry
- Design
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Background
Experience
Founder, Editor-in-Chief
Despreneur
Founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine for design entrepreneurs.
Product Manager
Refe
Co-founder of a marketplace of mobile photos. Working on concept development, market research, UI/UX design. Project successfully sold.
UI/UX Designer
Wöbu
UI/UX Designer
Studio N3RD
Web Designer & Developer
tomaslau.com
Freelance web design & development professional creating digital products and consulting individuals and businesses on design, blogging, social media and digital marketing. Working with clients form Lithuania, Estonia, UK & USA.
User Interface Designer
Studio N3RD
After performing well in the period of the internship and meeting the expectations of the organisation I have got hired to work as a full-time user interface designer at Studio N3RD. My responsibilities include concept development, user experience design, user interface design and front-end development.
User Interface Design Intern
Studio N3RD
User interface design intern at Studio N3RD. Responsible for creating digital solutions for corporate brands from United Kingdom.
Team Member at Communications Department
AIESEC Aarhus
Team member at Communications department at AIESEC Aarhus. My duties included calling out companies, promoting AIESEC online and offline, managing online brand.
Founder
Who Design Today
Founder and editor of art & design inspiration blog. My activities included setting up WordPress CMS, developing brand, producing content and marketing on different social media channels. Website was successfully sold.
Founder & CEO
WebDesignFan.com
Founder and editor-in-chief. Succesfully branded and managed web design oriented online publication. In a short span of time built a community of creatives including 50,000 unique visitors/month, 1,500 RSS subscribers and 15,000 Twitter followers. WebDesignFan was featured on numerous design blogs.
Founder & CEO
Iniwoo.net
Founder and editor of blog for creatives focusing on tutorials and resources of digital design industry. Blog was successfully sold.
Projects
Despreneur Magazine(Link)
Despreneur is a magazine about design, technology and entrepreneurship. Nowadays designers play major roles in successful startups and established companies. A Despreneur, coined by us, is a new breed of human being – a designer with entrepreneurial mindset. If you are a designer who has an entrepreneurial fire or an entrepreneur with a passion for design, here you will find everything you need – information about design careers, kickstarting and successfully running your own business. Between 75 and 90% of startups fail – Despreneur is here to ensure that you are not part of that statistic.
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Languages
Lithuanian
Native or bilingual proficiencyEnglish
Professional working proficiencyDanish
Elementary proficiency
Publications
Showcase Of Web Design In Lithuania(Link)
Smashing Magazine
June 2010Article featuring the state of web design in small Baltic country called Lithuania.
Tomas Laurinavicius Of Despreneur: Visual Design Is Overrated And Becoming A Cult(Link)
Forbes
July 2014Tomas Laurinavicius is founder of Despreneur, a magazine for design entrepreneurs. He tweets regularly about design, mobile, and technology as @tomaslau.
Mobile Design Book(Link)
July 2014Discover what makes mobile apps successful.
In order to make successful apps, you need to understand what makes them great in the first place. The best to way to learn is to observe what others are doing to figure out what works and what doesn’t.
Mobile Design Book is a quick guide to help you get familiarized with how to design great apps. We took a look at real apps to figure out what wonderful and terrible things they are doing. This way, you learn from real examples of designs that delight and designs that need a little love. It's important to take note of design elements that ere done well and done poorly to keep improving!
The good and the bad examples
We have picked two apps per each topic to literally show you a good and a bad example. Some of the topics covered include: navigation, shopping experience, colour use, readability and form.
Mobile Design Book is for:
Designers wanting to learn about making better mobile apps
Young designing trying to get a glimpse into the design world
Developers trying to figure out how design is applied
Marketers, entrepreneurs, or CEO who want to learn a bit more about the details of the mobile design world
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How To Combine A Nomad Life With A Fulltime Job(Link)
IntoConnection
February 2015Tomas is a ‘Digital Nomad’. He and his best friend Justas, travel and work abroad together since the summer of 2012. In this two minute interview Tomas tells IntoConnection about the biggest lessons and how he obtains and builds up a network in places he has never been.
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Design Changes Lives(Link)
Despreneur
February 2015"Education is changing these days, many millennials are looking for alternative ways to get a degree and acquire professional skill-set especially if we talk about the creative field.
Today I am having Aaron Fazulak from Designation talking about design business, education and modern careers."
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Skills
- Web Design
- User Interface Design
- Blogging
- Social Media
- WordPress
- User Experience Design
- Information Architecture
- Photoshop
- Interaction Design
- Entrepreneurship
- Concept Development
- Intercultural...
- Product Management
- Web Development
- Mobile Design
- Branding & Identity
- User Interface
- User Experience
- Digital Marketing
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Education
Business Academy Aarhus
AP degree, Multimedia Design & Communication, 12
Activities and Societies: Business, Communication, Interaction, Design
Naujamiestis Secondary School
High school diploma
Interests
- Self-development
- entrepreneurship
- startups
- fitness
- traveling
- writing
- photography
Volunteer Experience & Causes
Opportunities Tomas is looking for:
Causes Tomas cares about:
- Economic Empowerment
- Education
- Environment
- Health
- Science and Technology
Organizations Tomas supports:
- charity: water
- TOMS
- Pencils of Promise
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