Digital Design and Illustration

miss Henry Madsen

Aalborg, Denmark

henrymadsen.com

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I am a digital designer with a love for illustration.

I specialise in UI design for web and mobile, injecting illustrated details when I can.
Education
- MA equivalent Graphic Design
  
  Designskolen Kolding
  
  1999 - 2004
  
  I studied Graphic Design at designskolen Kolding, in a 5 year, MA equivalent course. My final year project was a complete brand design for an electronic music festival in Denmark.
- BA 4th semester exchange Typography
  
  Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze
  
  2003 - 2003
  
  I spent a year at the Typography department at VŠUP, perfecting my skills in the subject and learning the old fashioned ways of setting type in their brilliant print shop.
Experience
- Freelance Digital Designer
  
  Henry Madsen Designs
  
  Jun 2014 - Present (10 years 5 months)
- Senior Digital designer
  
  Gamesys
  
  Apr 2012 - Jun 2014 (2 years 2 months)
  
  Designing User Interfaces and creating the art direction for games and applications.
- Senior web designer
  
  Helmetgirl Design & Illustration
  
  Oct 2011 - Apr 2012 (6 months)
  
  Self employed Art direction, User interface design and illustration for various clients and brands.
- Web Designer
  
  William Hill
  
  May 2010 - Oct 2011 (1 year 5 months)
  
  Designing micro sites to fit in with the brand of William Hill and their products. Creating logos, graphics, animations and icons for their web and mobile presence as well as inventing image and illustration styles to match tv and press ads.
- Designer and Illustrator
  
  Helmetgirl Design & Illustration
  
  Oct 2009 - May 2010 (7 months)
  
  Self employed Art direction, User interface design and illustration for various clients and brands
- Web designer
  
  Reedus Design
  
  Jul 2008 - Sep 2009 (1 year 2 months)
  
  Branding and webdesign for various companies. Specialising in Iconography, Illustration and logo creation
- Graphic designer
  
  helmetgirl illustration
  
  Jul 2004 - Jul 2008 (4 years)
  
  Self employed graphic design and illustration for various clients and brands
- Freelance web designer
  
  Topshop
  
  Feb 2007 - 2008 (1 year 9 months)
  
  Following design guidelines to update the site as well as designing special features for the web page and creating the weekly podcast and newsletter.
- Freelance graphic designer and illustrator
  
  Psychotron
  
  Nov 2004 - Jun 2006 (1 year 7 months)
  
  I have worked on different projects with Psychotron, creating skins and graphics for web and Tv games, as well as animating characters for the games.
- Graphic designer
  
  k dimension
  
  2004 - 2006 (2 years)
  
  Producing photoshop visuals, illustrator layouts, and High resolution photo retouching. On brands: Barclaycard, Mr Kipling, Interniche, Homebase. Producing magazines and promotional print work for Metta Magazine, ZIP tv (Honda, ITV) and other leaflet and business related promotions.
- Freelance illustrator
  
  Ammunition
  
  2004 - 2004
  
  Creating the Character Maverick, and illustration for the network Rail Campaign No Messing.
Skills
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
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