Douglas Buckingham

Creative concept development, advertising, art direction, design, interactive, brand, video and print design, pitches, presentations for these world-class agencies clients:

• Clients: Havas Worldwide, McCann MRM Worldwide, Teak Digital, Teak Motion Visuals, Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners, Publicis Hal Riney, Publicis Modem, Extractable, Rauxa, Brainchild, Luxus, Trion World (video game start-up), Daymi (cold-pressed juice start-up)
• Brands: Google, Adobe, Intel, LG, Chipotle, T-mobile, Asus R.O.G. CNET, Citrix, McAfee, Intuit, USCellular, Radio Shack, SunEdison Solar, Rift video game.

Hired to deliver world-class creative for this B2B PR agency as it moved into B2C work. Art Director was to the top creative title.

• Direction and approval of all creative work.
• Creative leader managing two direct reports.
• Concept development, social campaigns, digital display campaigns and web design.
• Developing and presenting creative on multiple new business pitches.

Hired to lead and grow Grey's digital creative team.

• Lead creative for digital work, directing a small salaried team and contract art directors for website design and interactive online advertising.
• Presenting and selling through concept-driven creative was a key responsibility.
• Delivering concepts, strategy and design for: web design; interactive online advertising; video, animation motion direction; and social campaigns.
• Contributions to new business pitch winning Grey Paris the Ubisoft - Far Cry account.
• Contributions to new business pitch winning Grey San Francisco the Symantec account.

Hired to deliver interactive advertising campaigns and website design for these selected clients: Electronic Arts, Burton, Boost Mobile, Nike, Dolby, and Logitech.

• Art directed EA games/sports online ad campaigns for four years.
• Consistently delivered winning ad concepts year over year.
• Managed multiple projects leading as many as seven animators, video editors, designers and developers.
• Independently led C&C 3’s (Video game), direct demo download ad - EA’s 2nd highest direct download record as of 2008.

A senior interactive designer responsible for campaign ideas and website design.

• Part of the team that delivered the worlds first online product customizer, NIKEiD.com, resulting in numerous awards.
• Part of the team that delivered Mercedes-Benz, C-coupe campaign, resulting in numerous awards.
• Part of the team that delivered Mercedes-Benz, MBUSA.com, resulting in numerous awards.
• Designed Kaiser Permanente’s website, KP.org resulting in design awards.

This four-year education is considered a BFA equivalent according to an expert opinion conducted by the design department at Dartmouth University.