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    Mike Brookes: Key Skills

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    Mike Brookes is a design director and motion graphic designer with over 10 years of experience working with major clients such as Google, YouTube, MTV and Nike. He has a proven track record of leading creative teams and has received awards including a D&AD Yellow Pencil. Brookes currently serves as Head of Design at a Google Creative Partner where he oversees design projects and ensures work meets brand guidelines. He has strong skills in art direction, 3D animation, and the Adobe creative suite.

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    Mike Brookes is a design director and motion graphic designer with over 10 years of experience working with major clients such as Google, YouTube, MTV and Nike. He has a proven track record of leading creative teams and has received awards including a D&AD Yellow Pencil. Brookes currently serves as Head of Design at a Google Creative Partner where he oversees design projects and ensures work meets brand guidelines. He has strong skills in art direction, 3D animation, and the Adobe creative suite.

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    Mike Brookes is a design director and motion graphic designer with over 10 years of experience working with major clients such as Google, YouTube, MTV and Nike. He has a proven track record of leading creative teams and has received awards including a D&AD Yellow Pencil. Brookes currently serves as Head of Design at a Google Creative Partner where he oversees design projects and ensures work meets brand guidelines. He has strong skills in art direction, 3D animation, and the Adobe creative suite.

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    MIKE MIKEBROOKES.

    TV

    BROOKES
    Design director and motion graphic designer, with a proven track-record in creative leadership as the
    head of a successful design team. Extensive experience working in branding, print, motion, UI/UX
    design and 3D animation.

    Over ten years of industry experience working with high-profile clients including Google, YouTube,
    +44 (0)787 641 8615 MTV, Nike, Guinness World Records. TopShop, Open University and the Science Museum.
    micbrookes@gmail.com
    Hands-on & detail-oriented designer with strong experience in leading art direction and creative
    Flat 34, 37 Effra Parade, strategy. Multi-disciplined designer with an academic design background (MA, commendation), and
    London SW2 1PF excellent written and verbal communication skills.

    KEY SKILLS
    Art direction & design lead supervision of a core team of designers (in-house and freelance)
    Strong creative conceptualising skills & problem solving, in pressurised environments
    Extensive knowledge of entire Adobe Suite package & specialist 3D training
    Over 9 years brand guardian experience as a in-house designer for Google & YouTube
    Awards include D&AD Yellow Pencil, 2 x Vimeo Staff Pick, Creative Review profiled
    Good experience liaising & communicating with clients on high profile jobs

    WORK HISTORY

    HEAD OF DESIGN
    Across the Pond - Google Creative Partner Jan 2014 Present

    Creative lead and studio head of a team of motion graphic designers, working in an art-director
    capacity to ensure a gold standard of output, providing mentorship and training where necessary.
    Responsibilities include producing concepts, pitches and storyboards for a multitude of design
    briefs (varying from live-action branded content to full animated films).
    Break down briefs with the Creative Director and collaborate in brain-storming; applying practical
    knowledge of design processes to creative concepts to help plan productions and guide budgets.
    Oversee and maintain quality of work output in relation to brand values, guidelines & specifications
    (particularly in relation to Google & YouTube).

    SENIOR DESIGNER / MOTION GRAPHIC DESIGNER


    Across the Pond - Google Creative Partner Feb 2009 Dec 2013

    Lead animator & designer for a number of high-profile conference events and global marketing
    initiatives for Google (WEB LAB (Science Museum), Bletchley Park, Zeitgeist, DAVOS,
    and YouTube SPACE LAB).
    Lead User Interface designer for a number of key Google product launch & brand films
    (Search Stories, Google+, Google Baby, Google Glass).
    Won the Nike Foundation Account for the company on the back of a film made for them for
    The Girl Effect (Ni Nyampinga).
    Completed extended training in a wide range of mediums to hone technical skills in VFX &
    compositing, stop-motion animation and CGI animation.

    GRAPHICS SPECIALIST
    Google UK Dec 2007 Dec 2008

    I worked as a print designer, producing external marketing collateral such as booklets, invitations,
    T-shirts and specialised event branding for conferences.
    I produced digital artwork in the form of web & flash banners, personalised HTML newsletters
    & presentation design for Marketing VPs.
    As a brand guardian for Google, I gave seminars to the marketing and sales teams about best
    practices for working with external vendors & staying on brand.
    AWARDS The Petard Pinch, 2016
    Awards & Profiles: D&AD Awards, 2016 (Yellow Pencil), Vimeo Staff Pick, Shortoftheweek

    Before the Fall, 2015


    Film Festivals: Encounters Film Festival (2015), Berlin Shorts (2016)

    My Keynote Address, 2013


    Awards & Profiles: Vimeo Staff Pick, Creative Review

    The Formers, 2012


    Awards & Profiles: Excellence in Typography, Type Directors Club

    EDUCATION
    MA Communication Design & Motion Graphics, Kingston University (Commendation, 2008)
    BA English Literature & Language, Leeds University (2:1)
    MAYA Core Course, Escape Studios 2013

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