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K Brandon Bell
info@design-o-matic.com
(347) 788-0125


Brandon is the very hands-on Founder & Executive Creative Director of Design-O-Matic and holds both a BFA and MFA in Graphic Design. He began his professional career at a small design firm in Memphis, eventually moving on to a full-service advertising agency, where he was integral in founding a Web Design department. After moving to New York, Brandon became Senior Art Director at the infamous Dennis Interactive, where he stayed until 2001 when the Internet Bubble burst—and Design-O-Matic (which was established in 1996 for freelance expression) was reborn as a full-time consulting shop.

He has been designing and coding Web sites since 1995 and has instructed/lectured at the Pratt Institute, Parsons, University of Memphis and SUNY Purchase School of Design. In the past several years heading Design-O-Matic, he has been splitting his time almost equally between interactive and video-based projects such as motion graphics, editing and on-site event production. Every project that passes through the company gets his Principal-level involvement from start to finish.

Brandon enjoys the flexibility of working with Interactive, Video and Traditional Media. He has done interactive projects for clients such as The New York Times, IBM, Disney, Motown, Discovery and HBO; video/motion design for MTV, Bravo, TLC, Rolling Stone, Motorola and Audi; branding for clients such as 3M, Def Jam and DeWalt; and print design for International Paper, Circus Circus Casinos and the PGA. Other recent clients include AMC, Samsung, Fuji, Dassault Falcon, Hearst, KPMG, Vogue and Cosmo. His work has received honors from the One Show, New York New Media Awards, the Memphis Advertising Federation and the International Web Awards.

Brandon has badly impersonated Elvis in two City of Memphis Christmas Parades, shot a photo series in Louisiana's Angola prison, and DJ'ed both live and as a resident at several radio stations. Although he refuses to positively confirm, he may or may not have been at least partially responsible for the closing of a regional chain of Benettons.



Experience
Founder/Executive Creative Director at Design-O-Matic
Available for video, interactive, branding & print projects
(Motion graphics; Interactive design & development in HTML, Flash, JavaScript, etc; Mobile application development for iPhone, tablets, traditional handsets, etc.; Video editing, field production & full scale video production; Print design; Class instruction; Guest lectures; Call or email for proposals.)


Senior Art Director
Dennis Interactive (NYC)
(Web/CD-ROM/Kiosk/Interactive design with an emphasis on high end dynamic Flash-based projects; Art Direction; Preparation of project proposals; Client presentation; Ad/Print & T-shirt design.)


Design Consultant/Director New Media for Deskey
Misc Interactive & Branding (NYC)
(Multimedia/Web and print design; Product-line and corporate branding; Packaging and Point-of-Purchase design.)


Art Director
Sossaman Bateman Advertising (Memphis, TN)
(Web, print, outdoor and informational signage design; Photography and illustration art direction; Presentations to both small and very large groups.)



Selected Clients
[ client sites linked for reference; for our work see portfolio ]
The Tony Awards
HBO
MTV
Demetri Martin
Jon Stewart/Busboy Productions
USA Network
BRAVO
TLC
CNN
AMC
Sesame Workshop

Disney
Universal Music/Motown
Discovery Online
Animal Planet Online
Circus Circus Casinos
PGA

Nokia
Samsung
Casio
Sirius Satellite Radio
FujiFilm
EarthLink
AOL
Motorola
Comodo
IBM

Def Jam / BabyPhat / Rush Communications / Russell Simmons
Desgrippes Gobé
Organic
J Walter Thompson
Saatchi & Saatchi

The New York Times
Hearst
Maxim Magazine
Travel+Leisure Magazine
Blender Magazine
Random House
The Week Magazine
Rolling Stone

Clinique
Vogue
Parker Meridien Hotels

International Paper
KPMG
Deloitte
Hammermill Papers
DeWalt
Eli Lilly
Novartis
Memphis International Airport
Dassault Falcon Jet

Pratt Institute
State University of New York
Parsons
AT&T Performing Arts Center


Education
Master of Fine Arts
Graphic Design
Cum Laude
University of Memphis


Bachelor of Fine Arts
Graphic Design
Magna Cum Laude
Louisiana Tech University



Honors etc
PDN Magazine Best Websites
(Ernst Haas Studio)

Webby Award Nomination
(bThere website)

New York Festivals: New Media Awards
(UMG/Motown CD-ROM & bThere website)

International Web Awards
(Stuff Magazine website)

One Show Interactive Merit Award
(HBO: If These Walls Could Talk II website)

Memphis Addy Awards
(Multiple years/projects)

Magna Cum Laude, Full Scholarship, Tau Sigma Delta and Pi Alpha Theta art/honor societies
(Misc. Honors, Louisiana Tech University)

Freelance Elvis
(City of Memphis Christmas Parades)