Name Antony Ross Cormack
DOB 07/06/75 
Nationality British
Residency Australia
Address 3/33 Brighton Road, St Kilda, VIC 3182
Tel (03) 9534 4750  Email tony@gm02.co.uk  Web www.gm02.co.uk

Education
Higher education The Nottingham Trent University 1994 - 1997
BA Hons Graphic Design [First Class Hons]

Further Education Lincolnshire College of Art and Design 1993 - 1994
BTEC National Diploma In Foundation Studies, Art/Design [Merit] 

Secondary Spalding Grammar School 1986 - 1993
10 GCSE’s, 3 A-LEVEL’s

Professional
Senior Art Director Spin New Media March 2006 – present
Head of the creative team at one of Australia's leading digital agencies. In charge of Art direction and design management of a team including in-house and contracted designers / flash developers. Clients and projects include Disney - BVI International, BVI Australia, Lee Jeans - Australia, Lee/Wrangler Jeans Asia Pacific, eBay, KIA, Lonely Planet, Portmans, Tropfest, BigPond, Pulse Pharmacy. Creative responsibilities range from concept and pitch development, through to art direction and production for all digital projects.

Creative Director Action Sports Media (Factory Media Group) May 2000 – Sept 2005
In charge of creative direction for one of the worlds leading independent action sports / lifestyle publishers.

Art Editor MacUser - Dennis Publishing Feb 2000 - May 2000
Head of design at UK’s leading fortnightly Apple Mac magazine, for the creative industry.

Associate Art Editor Playstation Plus Re-design - EMAP Active  Jan 2000 - Feb 2000
Assistant Art Editor Computer And Video Games - EMAP Active  May 1999 - Feb 2000
Senior Designer Computer And Video Games - EMAP Active  Aug 1997 - Apr 1999
Art Direction Hype - fashion, music and lifestyle monthly   May - Jun 1997
Art Editor Magic Feet - independent music magazine  Dec 1996 - Apr 1998

Freelance as ARCD_Studio international clients include, Patagonia, EMAP Publishing, Future Publishing, Dennis Publishing, Factory Media, Nuit de la Glisse, Zac Speed, Featured, Absinthe Films

Extra Curricular and Achievements
AIMIA - Australia 2007 2 finalist selections
Magazine Design Awards 2001 - 2005
5 times finalist - includes ‘re-design of the year’, ‘best designed specialist consumer front cover’ and ‘best designed specialist consumer launch of the year’.
New Designers Exhibition New Designers - London 1997

Founding Partner 2007 Ä Collective
Contributing Editor 2003 – ongoing www.featured.se  
Creative Director 2002 – 2003 Switch Magazine - Online PDF format magazine  
Visiting lecturer 1998 – 2005 Nottingham Trent University

Proficiency
Systems Apple Macintosh, Windows
Software expert QuarkXpress, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Acrobat, PDF
Software intermediate Dreamweaver, Flash, Final Cut Pro, Fontographer
Software basic After Effects, Director
Extensive knowledge print, online, repro and publishing systems including remote proofing technology, web standards, multilingual design and typesetting
Implemented knowledge HTML, Flash, PHP languages
Extra Basic spoken French and some understanding of German/Spanish within a design environment. Photography, and basic film editing.

Profile
Creative Creative thinking, visual communicator from concept to execution, with nine years experience across a wide range of market leading projects and clients. Inspired by effective problem solving design. Passionate about type, space, colour and layout. Ambitiously resourceful. Calm under pressure and able to push the limits even when up against the tightest constraints. Able to work both autonomously or as an inspiring team leader.

Personal Snowboarding, skateboarding, music listening, globetrotting, art / architecture loving, t-shirt buying, book hoarding, chocolate eating, hyperactive soon to be dad.

Referees 
Available on request