Hello. This is Matthew Irvine Brown's CV.



Portfolio
http://www.irvinebrown.com

Email
matthew@irvinebrown.com

Date of birth
3/9/80

British citizen, based in London, UK. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Summary
Interaction designer with an interest in design for education and music. Gained MA from the Royal College of Art in 2006. Ten years of experience in graphic design for print and screen, web design and development. Five years of experience in prototyping physical, interactive installations and toys. Two years of experience in user interface design for desktop software, spanning Windows, OSX and Linux. Three years of experience in service and user interface design for mobile, spanning S60, Maemo, iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Two years of experience in teaching and working in art and design with children aged 12-18. Active participant in the design/web community, exhibiting work, giving talks, attending lectures, conferences and general hobnobbing.

Employment and experience

November 2009 - present
Freelance Interaction Designer
Working with individual clients and consultancies, in particular BERG.

March 2008 - November 2009
Lead Interaction Designer, Last.fm
UI and interaction design lead for web, mobile, software and hardware partnerships, working with in-house developers and external partners.

November 2007 - March 2008
Lead Designer, Software, Last.fm
Designer for the Last.fm software client, working within a dedicated development team and across the wider web product team.

September 2006 - November 2007
Designer, User Experience, Nokia Design
Internal consulting on user experience across the Nokia NSeries range. Concepting and delivery from service design to UI spec, icon design and animation. Researching and developing new concepts across the S60 and Maemo platforms, illustrating new business opportunities and approaches.

July 2005 - December 2005
Sony Computer Entertainment UK, London
http://www.psprca.com
Internship with SCEUK via the Royal College of Art, focused on promotional projects for the PlayStation Portable launch.

August 2003 - September 2006
Airside, London
http://www.airside.co.uk
Freelance designer, primarily on websites, print material and interactive installations.

March 2001 - October 2003
Engage, London
http://www.engagestudio.com
Web design internship while completing BA, later freelancing.

Talks, Gigs, Events, Exhibitions, Awards

December 2009
Music In The Round, Sheffield
Exhibited the Singing Sock Puppets at a childrens' music event hosted by Ensemble 360.

2-12 September 2009
Shunt Lounge, London
Singing Sock Puppets exhibited as part of Shunt Lounge's hybrid theatre/gallery/club under London Bridge railway station.

13-16 August 2009
Artist in residence at The BRIT School, London
Teaching a class of 16-17 year olds at The BRIT School how to make their own Singing Sock Puppets.

19-20 March 2009
Interaction Design Symposium, Arts Academy, University of Split, Croatia
Talk at University of Split, Croatia about careers in Interaction Design.

2-7 February 2009
New Year New Sounds, Battersea Arts Centre, London
Singing Sock Puppets exhibited as part of The Bohman Brothers' experimental music festival, New Year New Sounds.

8-11 October 2008
Shunt Lounge, London
Singing Sock Puppets exhibited as part of Shunt Lounge's hybrid theatre/gallery/club under London Bridge railway station.

31 October 2008
Playful 2008, London
Talk at Playful 2008, part of the London Games Festival Fringe, joning dots between design processes at Last.fm and my personal work in and around musical toys.

26 July 2008
Middlewood Sessions, Jazz Cafe, London
Live visuals for Middlewood Sessions.

27 June 2008
Interesting 2008, London
Talking about music games and musical performance, as well as conducting a thirty-piece scratch recorder orchestra for Russell Davies' Interesting 2008, a one-day playful ideas conference.

14 March 2008
Middlewood Sessions, Cargo, London
Live visuals for Middlewood Sessions.

29 February 2008
Middlewood Sessions, Runaway Girl, Sheffield
Live visuals for Middlewood Sessions.

August 2007
Loop Festival 2007
Singing Sock Puppets exhibited at Loop 2007, a one-day electronic music festival in Brighton, UK.

June 2007
Outsider Festival, Aviemore, Scotland
Live visuals for Fred Deakin's 'Wheel of Misfortune' DJ set.

July 2006
Yahoo! Design Expo, Sunnyvale, San Francisco
Selected to represent the RCA, exhibiting and presenting MA work.

July 2006
Conran Foundation Award 2006
The Conran Foundation Awards were held as part of the Royal College of Art summer degree show. The Rehearsal Joypads project won first prize in the School of Architecture and Design, selected from a total of over four hundred graduating students.

July 2005
Mattel Design Summit, Los Angeles
Selected to represent the RCA in a toy design project against entries from New York University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Hong Ik University, Seoul and Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Milan at the Mattel Design Summit in Los Angeles. Subsequently selected for a three-month design internship, not completed due to commitment to Sony (above).

Sept 2004 - June 2006
MA Interaction Design
Royal College of Art, London
(Conran Foundation Award 2006)

September 2003 - June 2004
Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Art and Design)
Goldsmiths College, University of London

September 2000 - June 2003
BA (Hons) Interaction Design (1st Class)
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication

September 1999 - June 2000
Foundation Studies in Art and Design
University of Ulster, Belfast

September 1992 - June 1999
Ballyclare High School
3 A Levels (A grades in Art, Music and History)
9 GCSE's (A* grades in Art, Music and Science, A grades in English, French and Technology, B grades in Maths, PE and History)

Highly skilled in graphic design and animation software (Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash animation).

Skilled in music and audio production software (Max/MSP, PureData, Logic, Live, most standard audio editing software), VJ software (Arkaos), and basic prototyping and hacking with microcontroller electronics (Arduino boards etc)

Working knowledge of HTML/CSS, video editing and 3D software (After Effects, Final Cut Pro, SolidWorks, 3D Studio Max, Maya) and prototyping dynamic visuals (Processing, basic ActionScript and so on)

Knowledge of the opportunities and constraints of most major web and mobile development languages, apps and tools.




Interests

Music (pedagogy of; listening to; dancing to; playing; anything and everything); type and typography; history and popular science; toys; games; books; stories; laughing; eating.

References available on request. Have a look at my work at http://www.irvinebrown.com