James Milton - Multi-Disciplinary Designer | James Milton’s Portfolio

DESIGNER ╳ CREATOR ╳ TECH GEEK

Multi-Disciplinary Designer from the U.K 🇬🇧 Currently residing in Salzburg, Austria 🇦🇹 where you can find me in the mountains 🏔 or exploring the intersections between design and digital technology for leading brands at LOOP .
Previously Digital Creative at Red Bull Media House, designing and developing marketing products for one of the world’s most recognised brands .

Proficient in Motion Design, UX Design, Virtual Reality, Videography and Software Development.

Master of Arts with Distinction in Digital and Motion Design from the University of Leeds Design School 🎓 and alumni from The School of Motion .
BSc First Class in Computer Science University of Sheffield 🎓 Specialising in Virtual and Augmented Reality 💼 Internship with Rolls-Royce and Designer & VR Consultant for Arup Design . ⃝

Timeline

LOOP ╳ Digital Designer
JUNE 2021 - PRESENT, SALZBURG AUSTRIA 🇦🇹 Exploring the intersections between design and digital technology for leading brands, such as:
Multi-Disciplinary Designer 🎨
JUNE 2013 - PRESENT, EVERYWHERE 🌎
As well as a full-time designer I’m often available for freelance work and always independently working on visual arts and my own explorations.
Red Bull Media House ╳ Digital Creative
JULY 2019 - JUNE 2021, SALZBURG AUSTRIA 🇦🇹 Digital Creative of ‘Beyond the Ordinary’ digital products for Red Bull. Designed and developed marketing products on RedBull.com & further digital platforms.
Leeds Design School ╳ Master of Arts Motion and Digital Design 🎓
SEP 2018 - SEP 2019, LEEDS U.K 🇬🇧 Explored colour, digital, interactive, informatic, motion graphic, typographic & brand design. My specialist project was the production of an Interactive Motion Graphic that educates on sleep health. Graduated with Distinction.
Arup Design ╳ Designer & VR Consultant
MAY 2018 - SEPT 2018, SHEFFIELD U.K 🇬🇧 Worked for the U.K Government funded ‘Urban Flows Observatory’ organization, which seeks to understand the flows of energy in major cities to help achieve a zero-carbon future. I created a Virtual Reality platform that provides visual representations of the internal & external environments of the University of Sheffield’s ‘Diamond’ Smart Building. Additionally, I designed the external physical enclosures for sensors that record environmental data within the city of Sheffield.
Rolls-Royce ╳ Software Design
JUNE 2016 - JUNE 2017, DERBY U.K 🇬🇧 Worked within the Civil Aerospace Demonstrators division, which focuses on the development of future aerospace products. My team was designing, developing & testing software for the next-generation Rolls-Royce jet engines for wide-body aircraft & business jets.
University of Sheffield ╳ BSc (Hons) Computer Science 🎓
SEP 2014 - JUNE 2018, SHEFFIELD U.K 🇬🇧 Published my final year dissertation ‘Visually Displaying Past and Present Smart Building Data Through Virtual Reality’ at the CIBSE Technical Symposium 2019 and won the best paper award. For this, I implemented a system that converts real-time Smart Building data, such as room temperature & CO2 density, into visual and interactive representations within Virtual Reality. Graduated with First-class Honours.