About Shane Horn

ABOUT ↓

Shane Horn

PROFILE

Designer, Art Director, and Creative.
Multi-disciplined, intergrated, enthusiastic, curious, and obsessively online.
Passionate about great ideas, great storytelling, and great craft.

Over the last 13yrs, I have worked for a range of agencies, from advertising networks to independents. Working with brands big and small - from technology to beauty.

A thinker, and doer - I provide creative strategy, conceptual thinking, art direction, and design direction, and work on campaign, branding, web and social-first briefs.

As a good problem solver with good vibes, I thrive in using my skills, infectious energy, and give-a-shit attitude to get the best out of my team and any brief that's thrown my way.

And an advocate for good leadership, I pride myself on being an empathetic and hands-on creative leader. And lecture at Norwich University of Arts, helping the next gen of creatives.

KEY SKILLS

Creative Strategy / Conceptual design / Intergrated campaign design / Art direction /
Pre and post-production / Social-first thinking and executing / Short-form copywriting / Excellent communication skills / Leadership and line management

DISCIPLINES

Campaign / OOH / Earned and Paid Social / Branding / Packaging / Display /
Layout and presentations / POS and retail / Visual and UI design / Design for motion

CONTACT

Want to talk about a job or project? Prefer a PDF portfolio? Drop me a line or gimmie a bell.

helloshanehorn@gmail.com
07971 622436

Experience, clients and details below ↓

PLACES

Freelance Designer & Art Director
Krow
Dentsu Creative
Sportfive
Atomic
Accenture Song
me&dave
Wasserman
Borne
Ark
Sticker Studios
Livity
May 2023 - Present
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Part-time Lecturer
Norwich University of Arts
Present
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Head of Creative
Born Social
Nov 2022 - May 2023
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Social & Digital Design Director
Brave
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
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Freelance Snr Art director
Brave
Sept - Dec 2020

Head of Creative
Bandstand
2016 - Sept 2020
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Snr Art Director
Waste Creative
2016
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Art Director & designer
Saatchi & Saatchi
2013 - 2016
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Designer
Billington-Cartmell
2011- 2013

RECOMMENDATIONS

Paddy Smith / ECD & Partner @ Born Social

"Put simply, Shane is a strong creative and leader. He brought a high level of technical design experience with a confident creative voice, able to push ideas to be bigger whilst also being fixated on details. He's an empathetic leader balanced well with a direct and ambitious approach."

Char Hamill / COO & Partner @ Born Social

"Shane is a highly skilled creative professional with the keenest eye for detail. He has the ability to positively impact any project he is part of and will guarantee the highest quality outcome. His technical capability and work ethic are equally impressive. I thoroughly enjoyed working with him and I couldn’t recommend him more."

Franki Goodwin / CCO @ Saatchi & Saatchi

"Shane is a brilliantly talented creative. He conjures amazing visual and verbal ideas from every brief that is thrown at him, no exceptions. He is incredibly hard-working and passionate about great ideas and great execution. He's a team player, always working towards the best result for the project. He works fast, and always delivers, no matter what the deadline. He is brilliant visually, but also conceptually – driving great concepts with inspired art direction. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Shane to anyone."

Bruno di Lucca / Director of Creative Content @ Burberry

"Everything he touches turns into gold - there's no better way to start Shane's recommendation. There's not a single project that I've worked with him that he wasn't passionate about and didn't add value too. His eye for detail and creative thinking blows everyone away, and because of his design background, he goes really deep on craft - making his ideas and execution work together in a beautiful way."

RECOGNITION

Creative Circle Gold Judge / Social & PR 2024.

The Drum 'Best B2B Rebrand' / Our Orluna rebrand was recognised at the Drum Design Awards.

Gold Cannes / Our Vangardist magazine HIV+edition, received 2 Gold Lions.

The Drum 'Work of the week' / 'This Is Engineering' voted 'work of the week' - recognised as a bold social campaign and exciting rebrand of engineering.

FWA and AWWWARDS / The Candy-land website was featured as SOTD on FWA & AWWWARDS.