Media Designer & Developer
I design brand systems, interfaces and motion, then build them. Interactive Media Design graduate working across graphic design, branding, web and UI, and animation. Currently open to junior roles in graphic, motion and digital design, available to start now.
Seven projects across branding, interface, motion and print. Each opens into a case study covering the brief, the process and what I contributed.
Placement work for the Durham Blues and Scarborough Blues.
Animated and static social content for game promos, highlights and announcements, built in After Effects and Photoshop to each team's guidelines and revised with my employer until approval.
My role: motion design, static social design, on-brand production across two teams' Instagram channels.
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A store you move through, with screens you don't have to touch.
A spatial retail concept built around a touchless 360° product viewer and a dual-screen catalogue for customers and staff, with supporting marketing materials.
My role: concept, spatial planning, visual design, interface design, installation direction.
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Three restaurant identities that stay distinct while living under one parent brand.
A master brand plus individual identities for Crispy's, Hearth & Stone Bistro and 5 Vines, carried through into a mobile ordering app with its own type, colour and UI system.
My role: brand system, three logo identities, colour and type systems, wireframes, user flow, prototype.
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Broadcast density on a campus screen, built to be read from across the room.
A CP24-inspired signage display for Durham College: modular news, weather, dining ticker and rotating ad panels, coded in HTML, CSS and JavaScript with GSAP driving the motion.
My role: layout system, visual design, front-end build, GSAP motion, content structure.
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A full guideline system of type, colour and grid for an outdoor brand.
Researched how established brand books are structured, then designed the typographic hierarchy, earthy palette and flexible grid that hold the whole document together.
My role: concept, visual direction, layout system, typography, full production.
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Forty-five seconds to make someone want to book a flight.
A cinematic travel spot storyboarded, sourced and animated in After Effects, with pacing and typography tuned so the information still lands inside a very short runtime.
My role: research, storyboard, asset sourcing, animation, typography, edit and sound sync.
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Game worlds rebuilt inside the layouts of classic movie posters.
A self-directed series pairing games with films that share their tone, Silent Hill with The Shining and Fallout with Full Metal Jacket, rebuilt layer by layer in Photoshop with period type, grain and colour grading.
My role: concept, pairing research, composition, typography, retouching and finishing.
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I'm James, an Interactive Media Design graduate who likes the part of the job where a brand system, an interface and a piece of motion all have to agree.
Most of my work is visual and graphic design, but I can take it the rest of the way: into Figma, into After Effects, or into the browser as working front-end code.
Experience: Motion & Social Designer, Tallships Media (2026). On-brand motion and static socials for the Durham Blues and Scarborough Blues, produced to each team's guidelines and revised until approval.
I'm looking for a junior role in graphic, visual, digital or motion design. If you're hiring, I'd like to hear from you.