A versatile and innovative creative designer with over 20 years of experience in the industry.

My expertise extends across print, digital, and social media design, enabling cohesive branding and marketing campaigns that engage audiences and deliver solutions that align with clients’ branding guidelines and objectives. I'm equally as comfortable designing and managing complicated print jobs as well as pixel perfect platform UI components and engaging social media content.

I have significant experience in analysing a brief and the needs of clients and marketing departments in order to understand their goals and preferences to translate them into creative design solutions. I have mentored senior and junior designers in the studio and provided support, guidance and constructive feedback on their work. 

I have extensive client- facing, presentation and project management experience,and has extensive experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously, delivering them within the designated timeline and budget. I also have significant experience managing his time and resources through his experience running and managing busy studios, marketing teams and working as a remote contractor.

I recently graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Visual Communication, which has further refined my skills and expertise and expanded my interest in AI supported design and marketing processes, new digital public spaces and addressing the rising interconnected complexity of the world.

I have vast experience as expected in all of the major production applications for print, web and film in addition to many niche applications for the production of creative work. this also includes WordPress website development and web languages such as HTML5, CSS3, PHP and Javascript/ JQuery, knowledge of mobile app design and an expanding knowledge of emerging creative technologies.

Scott travels regularly between London and the North-West, maintaining his client, academic and visual art practice links.

Please email for examples of work in particular areas.


2020-2022, MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art
MA in Experimental Communication at the RCA, investigate new ways of visual communication through digital and physical environments, targeted viewercontexts and disruption of popular platforms and processes.
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2013– present, Scott Jones Studio, Founder and Creative Director
Creative consultant and freelancer for print, digital, video and social projects producing integrated campaigns across all media channels; Physical, Digital, Video& Social. This includes print based projects integrated with digital campaigns, web app projects, website design and build, email campaigns and social media management strategies. Clients have included House Worldwide (CP+B), Argos, BMG, MiQ Digital, Association ofIndependent Music, Reed Recruitment, Miller Harris, ICE Services, Sony Music, The Telegraph, Columbia Records, Alpha Music Publishing, 1965 Records, Big Life Management, Young Kato, Skowt Music App, Karousel Music.Also worked with Telegraph Media Group on several digital marketing campaigns across their product range and rebranding theirFinancial Services product suite.

2009 – 2013, The Creative Corporation, Creative Director
As Creative Director at The Creative Corporation I developed my interests in digital, workingwith talented coders and introducing more print-based projects. I art-directed and project managed many high profile websites, social network campaigns and print projects for Red Bull, Harper Collins, Durex, Waitrose, Universal Records, Decca, Island Records and EMI.

2007 – 2009, BadFormat!, Founder and Creative Director
An interest in social networking, crowd sourcing and bringing the internet into the real world,l ed to the foundation of BadFormat!, a company championing the connection between the connection between online and offline. This manifested itself in a bi-monthly magazine that brought socio-political opinions out of social-networking sites into a printed publication. This also led to a bar/ venue that promoted on and offline communities, workshops, crowd sourcedevents/lectures and workspace for the creative/music industries.

1999 – 2007, Juno, Founder and Creative Director
Creative Director and founder of Juno, art directing a wide variety of projects for music industryclients including record sleeves, music promos, photography, events, web design, tv adverts,films, point of sale, branding, magazines, promotion, marketing, illustration, animation andmerchandising.Clients included Polydor, Deltasonic Records, Distiller Records, Vertigo, WallOf Sound, Universal Music, Domino Records, Independiente, EMI, Mercury Records, MuteRecords, Placid Casual, Epitaph and Interscope.

Selected Clients

Pogust Goodhead
House Worldwide (CP+B)
Reed Recruitment
Association of Independent Music
ICE Services
BMG
Red Bull
Universal Music
Argos
Harper Collins
EMI
Island Records
BBC
Warner Music Group
Polydor
Sony Music UK/USA/Japan
Columbia Records
Virgin Music
Domino Records
Mute Records
The Guardian
Oxfam UK
Learning Direc
tSocial Fuel (Tesco, Sky, Durex, Waitrose)
North West Arts Board
Epitaph
Mercury Records
Memphis Industries
Wall Of Sound
Moshi Moshi
Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts
SJM Concerts
Chrysalis
Spotify
iTunes

My work has been included in several publications on sleeve art and been included in Creative Review’s ‘Album Sleeves of the Month‘.

I have contributed to many exhibitions including Liverpool Museum’s ‘TheBeat Goes On’ and Friday Lates at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

I have also had work nominated for ‘Innovation in Publishing’ at the FutureBook awards.

Skills and Software

Skills
Creative Direction
Art Direction
Project Management
Campaign Concept
Pitch Documents
Pitch Presentation
Branding
Digital Design
Responsive Design
UI Design
UX Design
Site Architecture
Front End Build
Email Marketing Build
Print Design
Packaging
Print Management
Web Production
Film Direction
Film Treatment
Film Editing

Production Software
Illustrator
Photoshop
InDesign
Dreamweaver
Flash
Fireworks
Fetch
Final Cut
After Effects
Cinema 4D
Logic
3D Studio Max
Powerpoint
Word

Development
HTML
CSS
Javascript
jQuery
PHP
MySQL
MAMP
Wordpress
Arduino
Processing
Xcode
SEO