I help global brands and fast-paced agencies bridge the gap between concept, motion, and digital execution.

Concept to Creation: End-to-End Production Design

Visualising the big idea. Delivering the final asset.

I bridge the gap between raw imagination and technical execution. My concept design service doesn't stop at style frames and mood boards; I specialise in taking a project from the initial pitch sketch all the way to final, production-ready deployment. Whether the final output is a high-impact 3D animation sequence for digital screens or complex, fully artworked print files for physical environments, I ensure the creative vision maintains its absolute integrity from day one to launch.

By combining senior-level creative direction with a rigorous technical workflow, I deliver unified campaigns for global brands like Adidas, Red Bull, and the BBC that look breathtaking and function flawlessly across every medium.

Campaign Ideation & Style Framing
Developing the initial visual language, look-and-feel, and key aesthetics of a campaign to secure stakeholder alignment and win pitches.
Production-Ready Animation & Motion
Translating approved concepts into high-fidelity, polished 2D/3D motion graphics, broadcast assets, and digital video content
Flawless Print Artwork & Pre-Press
Setting up complex multi-page layouts, large-format spatial designs, and packaging templates with exact bleeds, colour profiles, and technical specifications ready for the press.
Rapid-Turnaround Creative Sprinting
Thriving under tight agency deadlines to interpret complex, fast-moving briefs and return a diverse array of polished visual directions overnight.
Comprehensive Asset Prototyping
Building out realistic speculative work, including mockups, mock ads, and interactive prototypes to show clients exactly how a campaign concept will live and breathe in the real world.
The Value
By handling both the conceptual spark and the final technical output, I eliminate the friction of handing work off between different designers.

You get a single, cohesive workflow from a senior creative who understands exactly how a sketch on a screen needs to be built to succeed in the real world.

Brand Strategy & Visual Identity

Building living, breathing brand systems that scale.

Leveraging over two decades of experience moving between high-end graphic design, 3D assets, and dynamic motion graphics, I build adaptive visual identities engineered for the modern digital landscape.

From disruptive startups to global icons like Adidas and Red Bull, I partner with ambitious businesses and creative agencies to define their visual voice, sharpen their positioning, and create unmistakable brand worlds.

20+ years of building brands
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A great brand isn’t a static logo or a rigid set of guidelines.

It is a living ecosystem that needs to perform seamlessly across every touchpoint
Brand Strategy & Positioning
Uncovering your unique market position, defining your core messaging, and establishing a clear, intentional creative direction.
Visual Identity Systems
Crafting comprehensive brand packages, including logos, tailored typography, custom colour palettes, and distinct graphic languages.
Motion & Dynamic Branding
Designing identities built for movement. I bridge the gap between static design and motion, ensuring your brand transitions fluidly onto screens, video, and digital media.
Motion & Dynamic Branding
Designing identities built for movement. I bridge the gap between static design and motion, ensuring your brand transitions fluidly onto screens, video, and digital media.
Comprehensive Brand Guidelines
Delivering intuitive, clean style guides that empower your internal teams to scale the brand consistently.
The Approach
I combine strategic thinking with raw creative execution. I understand 3D, motion, and digital design intrinsically, I build brand assets that are forward-looking and technically ready for whatever channel you deploy them on next.

Brand Optimisation & Modernisation

OLD BRAND
BRAND REFRESH
Evolving your look. Protecting your equity.

Instead of throwing out years of valuable brand equity with a costly, disruptive redesign, I methodically audit your existing elements—sharpening your colour palette, modernising your typography, and streamlining your logo for flawless rendering on modern screens.

The result is a revitalised, cohesive identity that respects your heritage while signaling to your audience that your business is forward-thinking, relevant, and built for the future.

A brand refresh is about evolution, not revolution.
BRAND REFRESH

Visualisation, Key Art & Digital Retouching

Crafting flawless hero imagery for high-impact advertising.

I specialise in high-end look development, combining cinematic key art composition, expert digital manipulation, and meticulous photo retouching to turn creative briefs into striking, commercial-grade imagery. From seamlessly compositing complex multi-layered campaign art to perfecting the lighting and colour grading on product photography, I ensure every pixel meets international advertising standards.

I build hyper-polished brand assets engineered to perform flawlessly across massive billboards, print, and digital rollouts.

Cinematic Key Art
Blending photography, digital textures, and graphics into a cohesive master visual that anchors a campaign.
Commercial Retouching
Flawless skin work, product cleanup, precise lighting manipulation, and premium editorial colour grading.
Large-Format Artwork & Pre-Press
repping massive, multi-layered campaign master files with precise colour profiles, bleed settings, and technical specifications, ensuring zero loss of fidelity when scaled up for global billboard and transit print rollouts.
Complex Compositing
Expertly masking and layering multiple image assets with absolute precision regarding perspective and shadow casting.
Campaign Finishing
Establishing the definitive mood and tonal palette to ensure visual consistency across an entire asset suite.
The Approach
I combine strategic thinking with raw creative execution. I understand 3D, motion, and digital design intrinsically, I build brand assets that are forward-looking and technically ready for whatever channel you deploy them on next.

Motion Design & Moving Image

Bringing static brands to life across every screen.

In a digital-first world, if your brand isn’t moving, it’s invisible. I create high-impact, cinematic motion graphics that capture attention, explain complex ideas, and elevate brand storytelling. Because my background bridges the gap between core brand strategy and advanced technical execution, I don't just animate elements for the sake of movement, I design fluid, intentional motion systems engineered to perform across broadcast, digital campaigns, experiential displays, and social channels.

From prime-time broadcast graphics for the BBC to dynamic content for global icons like Red Bull and Primark, I deliver polished, rhythm-driven motion that cuts through the noise.

2D & 3D Motion Graphics
Crafting everything from sleek vector animations and kinetic typography to complex, texture-rich 3D spatial simulations.
Campaign & Social Video Assets
Engineering fast-paced, high-retention motion assets tailored perfectly to specific platform algorithms and aspect ratios.
Flawless Print Artwork & Pre-Press
Setting up complex multi-page layouts, large-format spatial designs, and packaging templates with exact bleeds, colour profiles, and technical specifications ready for the press.
Broadcast & Title Design
Developing premium, network-grade opening sequences, lower thirds, and on-screen graphic packages.
Dynamic Brand Transitions
Translating static visual identities into living brand guidelines, defining exactly how a logo, type system, or graphic asset moves.
Flawless Print Artwork & Pre-Press
Setting up complex multi-page layouts, large-format spatial designs, and packaging templates with exact bleeds, colour profiles, and technical specifications ready for the press.
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Human Creativity, AI-Accelerated

Artificial Intelligence isn't a replacement for the creative process; it is the ultimate accelerator.

I embrace generative tools not to bypass the work, but to supercharge the most critical phase of any campaign: ideation. By integrating advanced AI tools directly into my initial brainstorming, style-framing, and look-development pipelines, I can stress-test bold ideas, explore abstract directions, and map out complex lighting or composition concepts in a fraction of the traditional time.

For agencies and brands, this translates to a massive commercial advantage, a faster path from a blank page to a greenlit concept, maximising your budget where it matters most.

The Philosophy

AI provides the spark; human intuition, strategy, and execution provide the soul. This hybrid approach ensures your campaigns are delivered faster and smarter, without ever losing the deliberate, senior-level craft required to compete on a global stage.

AI isn’t just about typing a simple prompt.

It’s about architecting an intricate, multi-layered workflow where human intuition guides the technology from raw spark to polished production.

The Creative Behind Urbanape

Senior Multi-Disciplinary Designer & Creative Partner

With over a decade of experience crafting visuals for the likes of the BBC, Adidas, and Red Bull, I operate as a strategic "Swiss Army Knife"—bringing elite-level branding, high-impact motion design, and 3D execution under a single, unified workflow.

Whether stepping in to lead an in-house team, rescue a high-stakes pitch, or deliver end-to-end campaign assets, I combine technical precision with creative grit to deliver work that moves the needle.

BBC’s The Apprentice: The Final

BBC’s The Apprentice: The Final

Creative Execution Under Pressure

(And no, I wasn’t a contestant).

To clear things up: I wasn’t competing for the investment, I was the professional designer drafted into the chaos to bring the finalists' ideas to life.

Miss me, lets talk

jack@urbanape.uk

07725550370