Ryan Barlin

General info

Experience

• Senior Designer

  Sydney, Australia
  Jul 2009 - Present

  ACP Magazines/Ninemsn

  I work on a two person design team for a small agency partnered with Ninemsn doing digital creative (advertising pitches, sites, edms, etc) for brands such as Toyota, Big W, Nissan, Smirnoff, VW.

• Midweight Designer

  Sydney, Australia
  Oct 2008 - May 2009

  Soap Creative

  Soap won many of the Unilever accounts, so again i was working on brands such as Cornetto, Rexona and Lynx.
  
  I mostly handled motion graphics for both the web and broadcast for Unilever, Fox's newer movies such as Wolverine, Night at the Museum 2, animation for the Gruen Transfer, site intros, site elements and cinema adertisements.
  
  I also trained the junior designers on projects, particularly in best practises and application tricks, and sometimes, they taught me too.

• Midweight designer

  Sydney, Australia
  2006 - 2008

  Amnesia Group

  I handled many large clients (such as xbox, Smirnoff, Pepsi, Lipton, Lynx, Rexona, Omo), mainly for web but handling some print as well. My job mostly leaned towards motion graphics work in flash and after effects, though i also handled illustration work at times.
  
  I also took on training/briefing work experience people over the years as well as an international student for 6 months on various projects which was very rewarding.

• Freelance Designer

  Sydney, Australia
  2004 - Present

  Self Employed

  As a freelance designer, i have handled various projects across print, web and video.

Education

• Diploma, Graphic Design and Multimedia

  North Sydney
  2003 - 2004

  KvB Institute of Technology

  KvB gave me a Half Scholarship straight out of school after i did their creativity test.

• Bachelor, Multimedia

  North Sydney
  2004 - 2005

  KvB Institute of Technology

  I was named Institution Medalist of my year, and passed with many high distinctions. In 2005, i was awarded the "Best Animation" award for my personal body of work and Best Cultural Film" for a short film myself and some friends had created.

• Compositing for the the 3D & Digital Effects environment

  Enmore, Sydney
  2007 - 2007

  Tafe

  This course taught me compositing skills for the program Shake which is often used in high end TV and Film.

• Award School

  Sydney
  2009 - 2009

  News Limited

  This course is about developing the best creative ideas you possibly can. It is a 16 week course, run by News Limited.