Tom Austin
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Tom Austin

Digital, Brand & Product in Southsea, UK, he/him

looking for books about product design

2 months ago

About

Award winning designer with over 8 years experience in branding and digital. Passionate about creating beautiful work and building design systems.

Projects

2024

Complete re-design with new content architecture and an evolution of the existing brand to bring the site to life. Full design system with component-based web blocks making development simpler and laying the foundations for an internal library of re-usable website patterns.

2024
🧊 Website Design at Newable

Information architecture, wireframes and overall site redesign for UK business services company Newable. The design helped add credibility to the companies online image while redesigned components helped make accessing resources and downloads easier.

2023

A brand new site for betting odds comparison company Odds Index. Built a brand from scratch and created complex user interfaces for odds comparing across multiple device sizes.

2023
⚽ Digital Design at Powerleague

Complete website rebuild with bespoke booking flow for complex booking of pitches and venues.

2023

Bringing a whole new life to the brand with bespoke wave devices and a vibrant iridescent colour scheme that was rolled out across a brand new website which included various API components.

2023

Evolving the Give a Grad a Go brand and rolling out the design across their new website. Also designed a bespoke job search tool and job preview flow.

Side Projects

2023
🍌 Building a Community at Running Late

Helping two good friends create a visual identity for our local running club. A playful approach to branding without the constraints of a client, experimenting, having fun and creating a brand to bring people together.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
Guildford

Plug & Play is a digital agency based in Guildford and London designing and developing a range of projects from iOS apps to Wordpress sites. My role has required me to lead projects independently managing scope and relationships with clients. Over the past 2 years I have gained vast experience working on digital products considering user journeys, user experience and working closely with developers to deliver on my designs.

2020 — 2021
London

Revolt is a marketing agency where I worked on international campaigns with clients such as Budweiser, LifeWTR and Mars. Helping to bring to life stories across digital, print and social.

2018 — 2020
London

FITCH (now Landor & FITCH) is one of the largest design agencies in London with a focus on retail and environmental design. I was part of the select team that worked on several Adidas Football campaigns rolling out 2D graphics for in-store, online and OOH.

2016 — 2018
London

Proxy is a VC and design agency working closely with start-ups to build brands. Based in the heart of Clerkenwell, London, I worked alongside several highly respected designers for my first 2 years in industry.

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