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Background
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Derek Wade Wilson is the designer behind Bonobo Creative (or BC for short), showcasing commercial and non-commercial work. His career expands over fourteen years.
I collaborate closely with creative teams, copywriters, client team managers, art directors and stakeholders on an exciting range of high-profile design projects for global commercial brands such as Adobe, AIIB, Barclays, Chevrolet, GSK, Hyundai, Logitech, Microsoft, Nestlé, Ocrolus Samsung, Sky, Unity, Vanquis, Vodafone, Visa, Vuse, Westfield, Zipcar and many more. For B2B and B2C in digital and print space.
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My skill-set is fully integrated and specialist in: UI/UX design / digital and graphic design / Branding / Iconography / Infographics / Gif animations / Social production content / Out-of-home ads (inc DOOH) / Email design & dev – (BeePro, Stripo, Hubspot, Mailchimp) Web design & dev– (WordPress, Bricks, Squarespace, Shopify and Webflow).
I use industry-standard software for digital and graphic design: Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate, Acrobat, Adobe XD and Figma.
Disciplines
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I am a digitally-native designer with extensive design experience in the digital space. My strength lies in focusing on UI/UX design and visually optimising for a human-centred, engaging and empathic user experience. To ensure the brand design is applied coherently through design systems and is futureproof.
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A competent, highly efficient and technical designer with a keen interest in designing for future generations and has an inner love for Cyberpunk with its vibrant bold colours and exciting visual treatments. You can see some of these design influences or visual cues in his work.
More importantly, his focus is to translate complex ideas or concepts that are bold with applied strategic thinking for human-centred design in mind.
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Before becoming a full-time graphic designer, I also studied traditional illustration that eventually ventured into digital vector art or utilising Photoshop. Today, I incorporate illustrations and icon assets for projects, producing exciting bespoke visuals that bring concepts to life that tell a unique brand story and also depict complex copywriting into simplified iconography.
Feedback
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Very swift designer
“I hired Derek on a freelance basis as part of a team handling a large amount of artwork, production and retouching. I was immediately impressed by Derek’s skill, speed and flexibility.
He got on really well with everyone involved in the process and remained perfectly calm even when the pressure was intense. Derek brought a good eye and equally good ideas and techniques to the work. He was always prepared to take on new challenges and demonstrated an ability to pick things up very swiftly.”
Robert Smith, Managing & Creative Director - Jog
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Always kept informed
“Derek is a brilliant designer who created my company website.
I knew very little about web designing, so he was in control of the whole process. From the initial concept design to the up-and-running of the site, everything went extremely smoothly. He is a good communicator and explained things in a simple and clear way, keeping me well-informed throughout the whole process.”
Lina Zhang, Director - Sino Communications
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Highly recommended!
“It was great working with Derek! He helped us in a time of need and would definitely use him again in the future.
Overall, we were very happy with his professionalism and the quality of his work. Highly recommended!”
Vasso Georgiou, Marketing Manager - Marketing Town
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Goes the extra mile...
“You will find Derek an extraordinarily pro-active and knowledgeable creative designer. He has the ability to understand the brief and deliver it with precision and accuracy in every case.
He was also a valuable team member willing to go that extra mile whilst under pressure but at the same time very committed to the project and people he was working with.”
Michelle Habgood, Senior Traffic Manager
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Awesome Rabbit!
“Derek is an awesome designer! What more can I say? Always exceeding our expectations for the design team, a great collaborator, very technical and hard working to meet hard deadlines.”
Nichole Johnson, Director - Rusty Rabbit
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A rock in the dept...
“Derek was a rock in a department that was constantly under pressure to deliver. The work rarely needed a second pass and if it did it was due to the quality of the brief, not the work.
I would gladly work with Derek again. Not only was the work of consistent quality, but he was also a good team player. He was great to have around.”
Phil Woolgrove, Web Content Manager - T M LEWIN
