Luke Beard

Luke Beard

Designer

Senior Designer

San Francisco, CA

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Work History
  • Photographer

    Uncrate

    March 2016 - March 2017
    San Francisco Bay Area

    Shot various lifestyle and brand projects along the west-coast including the main feature and cover for Uncrate Magazine Issue 2.

  • Designer & Front-end Development

    Zerply

    June 2011 - January 2012
    San Francisco Bay Area

    Zerply is a professinal network for creatives. I created Zerply's entire brand identity, including redesigning the entire web app and designing a blog theme, typography prints, print materials, and more.

  • Designer & Front-end Development

    Buffer

    October 2012 - December 2012
    San Francisco Bay Area

    As a design consultant, I provided the visual direction for both the Buffer iPhone app and the Buffer 2.0 web redesign. I also designed additional company web pages, including the Buffer developer portal.

    Both the iPhone and Web app releases were met with critical reviews from major tech web
    publications.

  • Designer & Front-end development

    Hipstamatic

    June 2012 - February 2013
    San Francisco Bay Area

    As a design consultant, I lead Hipstamatic's first company-wide web redesign, which was featured in various web design publications for the site's animation and mobile optimization. I executed all HTML & CSS development, including mobile/tablet optimization.

    I also designed other notable projects for Hipstamatic, such as the web version of Snap
    Magazine and the Hipstamatic Gear site.

  • Designer & Front-end Development

    WillCall

    October 2012 - July 2014
    San Francisco Bay Area

    I worked with WillCall as an iPhone and web design consultant, creating UI components and new feature concepts for iOS, leading a site-wide redesign for web, and executed HTML & CSS development for all work.

  • Product Designer

    Elepath, Inc.

    August 2013 - February 2015
    San Francisco Bay Area

    Elepath is a product studio established in 2011 and is the generator of Exposure, Keezy, Keezy Drummer, and Thinglist.

    I designed and executed a substantial iOS update to the Thinglist app, and created the marketing page for GetThinglist.com, along with providing design support for other Elepath web properties like https://elepath.com and https://keezy.co

  • CEO and Founder

    Exposure

    December 2013 - Present
    Greater Atlanta Area

    Building a home to publish and discovery visual storytelling. Explore the community: https://featured.exposure.co/

  • Mint ATL

    December 2018 - Present
    Atlanta, Georgia
  • Product & Brand Designer

    Voyage

    August 2017 - July 2019
    Palo Alto, California

    As the first designer at Voyage I established the visual language of the autonomous taxi service from brand design, photography, video production and product/experience design.

    • Designed and deployed the initial brand identity and directed a rebrand
    • Supported 2 deployments with story development, photography and video production
    • Design and build of https://voyage.auto marketing site
    • Iterated on product design and UX for multiple rider software experiences
    • Designed a suite of internal tools to empower effective engineering culture through operations and triage.

  • Designer & Frontend Developer

    WillCall

    February 2013 - May 2013
    San Francisco

    Designing for web, iOS and print.

  • Designer & Frontend Developer

    Hipstamatic

    June 2012 - February 2013
    San Francisco, CA
  • Designer

    ThemeZilla

    February 2012 - May 2012
    Reading, United Kingdom

    Designed four WordPress themes and provided design support for themezilla.com

  • Designer

    Zerply

    January 2011 - January 2012
    Mountain View, CA & Remote wor

    I was responsible for all the design, front-end markup and css during 2011.

    This Included the design of two themes (The Swiss & Zerply effect) and building a further two. ( The New Black & The Steed)

    I also designed & did the front-end work on:

    - Email newsletter / templates
    - Mobile theme
    - Responsive home page and signup steps
    - Infographics, posters and T-shirt
    - The Zerply Blog (Tumblr Powered)
    - Pitch deck slides.
    - Distributed "Endorse Me" button and widget for endorsements
    - Internal statistic dashboard
    - Checkout process for premium themes

  • Senior Web Designer

    Magnetize Consultants Ltd

    November 2008 - January 2011
    Cheltenham, UK

    Web design and front end development for over 140 clients in varying industries.

Education
  • BTEC National in ICT

    Royal Forest Of Dean Collage

    September 2006 - September 2008