Damien Borowik: Profile
last updated: September 2009
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Drives
practitioner
As a creative designer, I like to be challenged to convey appropriate experiences across a range of media and appropriate to the context/settings of a specific situation, as well as make sure that the architecture of information is adequate to the user’s goals.
Academic
As an academic, I focus on the experience of user in a specific context, from their wayfinding through the interface of information, to the communities formed by users and their communication through the knowledge sharing abilities of computer technology and the Internet.
Skills
- Research, problem solving, creative thinking, conceptualization, hand drawing
- Team and Project management
- Skilled in all major adobe CS3 design software in Graphic, Web and Motion Design (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flash, Director, Premiere, 3, After Effect)
- Programming skills include ActionScript 2 and 3, Html, CSS, JavaScript, Php and MySql, Xml, OOP, code igniter framework, Processing
- Basic knowledge of 3D (Blender), sound and video editing softwares (Sound Edit, Sound Forge, Cubase, Premiere, After Effect, Final Cut Pro, Cleaner 6, Sorenson Squeeze)
- Currently experimenting 3D with SketchUp, Processing, and Pure Data.
- Pc and Mac user.
- Personal skills: passionate and hardworking individual. Like to be involved in a project as part of a team, and also enjoy working on my own. Enthusiastic person with a good sense of humour, helping to work well under pressure
work
graphic
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CD packaging – Given Taken - Jun 2007
Design and packaging choices were made according to the palindromic central aspect of the music.
Role: concept, design, artwork, photography, layout, pre-press settings. -
Design - campaigns – Rabbit Promotions - since 2006
A3 poster and A5 leaflet for Poseidon.
Design of an A4 advert template to be used for the promotion of Dirty Dancing cinema's come back, sponsored by Beverly Hills Formula.
Role: concept, template and design to pre-press. -
Design - promotional – Steve Bannatyne – April 2006
Corporate Identity, collaterals, promotional products (stamp, postcards) and website including tailored CMS integration.
Role: concept, design, information architecture, front/back end interface design. -
Graphic/Web design - in-house – Austin Reed - July 2002 to May 2003
Role: Re-branding (assisting in conceptualization, brand design and applications)
Websites design and maintenance
Seasonal concepts and direct marketing (brochure, promotional campaigns, Direct Mail)
Sales promotion (leaflet, banner, poster, window design) and Point of Sales
interactive
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Web service – Lionsgate UK - Aug 2007
Assisting marketME in the creation, of Lionsgate UK new VIP TV site. By registering, users are able to exclusively watch free episodes of the various Lionsgate TV shows.
Requirements: IP restriction, registration/subscription/competition system management, flash streaming videos, and an easilly updatable/adaptable micro-site template.
Role: information architecture, implementation, development, interface design, streaming and database. -
Web campaigns - banners – CMWi, marketME - Nov 2004, Jun 2007
For CMWi, promotional products for flybe., Renault, Marbles and Gartmore, and more recently flash banner optimization for marketME, according Tango Zebra web campaign requirements, and including polite loading and video streaming.
Role: design following guidelines, B2b, online branding, Html email, Banners (Animated Gifs + Flash), Flv, interaction & optimization. -
Web design - portal – Yarak - May 2007
Falconry community portal based website, enabling users to create blogs, participate to chat room and forums, access, buy and/or share content and product related to falconry.
Role: concept, project management, information architecture, interface design, styling, assistance in implementation (developer: Orizu Nwokeji). -
Web design - promotional – Wawamoz - Mar 2007
Design of the composer/designer/lecturer/research fellow website. Requirement was to design a simple/minimalist website, with a fluid layout, accessible and that can be modified easily by SJ using html/css.
Role: concept, design, information architecture, interface design, HTML and CSS templates. -
Web design - promotional – Studio Irrgang - Corto Moltedo - Jan 2006
Fashion designer’s website showcasing his seasonal collections. Focus on the user’s experience of the structure and display of content. CMS driven, seasonal themes.
Role: information architecture, interface design
motion and film related
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Film Web sites - promotional – Market Me Limited - 2008 to current
Official UK web sites of Universal, 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate and Contender including Wanted, Mighty Boosh, The Strangers, Saw 5...
Web campaigns for Deadsnow, Fast and Furious, Hell Boy II... (HTML email, banners and screensavers)
Role: Conception,information architecture, design, interactive animation, game design, development, data management -
Film Web sites - promotional – Metro Tartan Distribution - 2001 to 2003
Official UK web sites of Tartan distributed foreign films like Sex and Lucia, Irreversible, Respiro, Bundy.
Web campaigns for Trouble Every Day, The Eye, The Guru (banners and screensavers)
Role: Conception, design, interactive animation, data management -
Short film - art – Parallel - May 2005
Experimental film where the audience is experiencing visual and sound rhythmics through oscillation and movements. Sound composed by Stuart Jones. Invited in festivals in France, Sweden and Japan.
Role: Video design and editing. -
Short film - art – Angela‘s Ashes: typographic experience - Jun 2002
This experimental film focused on typographically relating the story by Frank McCourt, making narrative text visually behave like rain and water. Sound by Stuart Jones.
One of four nominees at the D&AD New Directors Competition, London, UK (2003)
Private viewing at Pixar Animations Studio, California, USA (2003)
Official selection in over 30 festivals worldwide (Including Annecy, Tehran, TEIAF, Leipzig and Ankara international film festivals) Television transmission on TVE in Spain and also Brazil
Role: design and conception, in collaboration with Alexander NG and Sunghun Kang. -
Short film - art – Railway - Jun 2001
An abstract journey through the british railways, using the linear footage of rails and the railway 'environment', with a mix of trains/custom soundscape provided by Stuart Jones.
Invited in festivals in UK, Sweden and Japan. Role: Video design and editing.
teaching & learning
2007-8 - Pg Certificate in Teaching & Learning - University of the Arts London
Course followed in residency. It aims to make supporters of learning more aware of their practice and theories in pedagogy. The most interesting is the creation of new knowledge enabled by the communication between teachers who are learning together.
Since 2004 - Seminar lecturer in MA Communication Design, Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London
Seminars on interactivity, user centered design, digital information and user experience in Human-Computer Interaction.
Help students to identify and tackle various issues related to database visualization, information design &architecture, interactive storytelling, environments & installations (project driven).
year 1 and 2, also part of assessment panel.
Since 2002 - Associate Lecturer in Interactive Design, BA Graphic Design course, Central Saint Martins
Egraphic department: running interactive projects focused on the user experience, building and developing student’s creative and technical and problem solving skills in a practice based environment.
Motivating students by leading them to create award-winning projects (D&AD student awards).
Conceptualization, information architecture, organization and planning, creativity and development.
experience with year 1, 2 and 3, although main allocation of hours is made in year 2.
research
2007-8 - MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments.
prototyping an editable thesaurus/index of the various concepts used in the course, to help the community to develop an understanding of the complex relationship between elements and their use in the various discplines of the course.
Sep 2007 - design on e-learning.
Short paper and talk regarding the knowledge sharing abilities of communities in virtual learning environments.
2007 - Application for PhD at Central Saint Martins and supported by the computer science department at the Imperial College and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), to pursue research on knowledge building and sharing assisted by computer.
the practice based proposal was to use the GRID system to help Djs and Vjs to work collaboratively at real time.
Even if rated A, this application failed to get awarded.
2006-2007 - Practice based research: implementation of bookmark web service as prototype based on earlier research on inter-personal knowledge management system assisted by the computer
seed funded by Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London
2004-2006 - Research based project on the foundations of an inter-personal knowledge management system assisted by the computer
seed funded by Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London
