Natascha Wilson has 12 years of experience in digital design, illustration, and art direction. She provides services in illustration, design, art direction, information architecture, and digital strategy. Her portfolio includes work for brands such as Bayer, Jameson, Boots, Kiwi, and Tabasco, where she has led creative teams and projects involving websites, emails, banners, and branding. She is always interested in learning new skills and challenging herself professionally.

1. Natascha Wilson
Illustration
Design
Art Direction
Information Architecture
This presentation is an overview of my work, to view my full portfolio please
click here.
And to see a selection of my banner ads please click here.
I have 12 years experience in Digital, I started with (3 years ) Fine Art Degree
and at one time I was working as a painter and sculptor before I decided to
move full time into design. I studied commercial design as well as desktop
publishing and multi-media graphics.
I trained whilst working client side, in Flash, Dreamweaver, IA and Usability.
I have also attended effective management courses while I was client side, and
participated in team building courses such as Myers Briggs. Before I pitched
in the inhouse digital team to the owners of Onetel Sydney, I was working as a
marketing manager, I worked at Onetel for 8 years and my role was wide and
varied.
In the last four years I have worked agency side on many large brands in
senior positions . I have worked as a Creative Director, Art Director, Creative
Lead and Digital team manager, I have also had the opportunity to project
manage large scale web builds and redesigns.
I am always keen to learn more and to challenge myself where I can.

2. Art Direction
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Jorje.
Pitch work for a small business dealing in web sites, needed a conceptual to
create some site design for a brand in Melbourne that is a fashion warehouse
that sells to retailers.They have no real brand to speak of, so I took their last
campaign photography and created contemporary, mid range and CMS styled
designs as a variation of web site and brand styles. I also used their logo of the
small bird as inspiration and incorporated that into the designs.
Unfortunately the project was shelved as the client was still unsure of whether
to go digital or just do things the way they had always done them. But they
took away some wire frames and also some interesting design concepts as a
base for when they do decide that pursuing digital is a good idea for future
growth.

3. Art Direction
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Impulse
I was working as the Creative Director at Craik Jones and the client needed to
re brand their web site and digital presence.
Their current web site at the time looked like a cross between Urban Outfitters and
Nike, and was flash heavy, action scripted badly, with full weighted videos that were
not compressed enough, so the site was cumbersome, not branded right and
basically didn’t work well navigationally.
I took their current campaign of Romance, which was the creative direction the
company wanted to go and created layouts using HTML as a base and flash
components.
I teamed with a writer and we created a lovely sequence of Romance type sections.
And I created the overall look and feel.
I built the flash video components and the animated spray section, which was to
give a sense of what each bottle contained, with in a light, pretty and summery feel
to it.

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Boots - Craik Jones
Designing large emails using the brand guidelines and incorporating all the main
products. Boots liked their emails to be image heavy and also informational.
This lead to very long emails, but the client liked that style very much and used it as
a basis for all their emails after this design style was created.
They wanted a more glamorous style and less company corporate style.

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Boots - Surf
Working in tandem with the print art director, to create emails and the web site to
match the print. Incorporating their TV ad on the home page. And also downloads
for music and their offerings, like competitions.

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Bayer
Digitas ( formerly Modem Media)
This Agency I had a very good relationship with and had many repeat bookings
with for a couple of years. I worked at Modem, Digitas and Publicis.
I also worked on the Hewlett Packard pitch , which Modem Media won, for their
Global Digital work and this was then sold to Publicis, when MM was sold between
Digitas and Publicis.
I was brought onto the Bayer account with Digitas, who are heavily weighted toward
Pharmaceutical clients.
While working closely with the IA to create the Ajax site that was for a new
thrombosis drug, Bayer had made - the site was to be used by Doctors.
I was also asked if I would illustrate the medical pictures for Doctors to download
and also create illustrations for the Motion Graphics animator, as they wanted to
make an internal world of the body, zooming in and out and showing how
thrombosis occurs and how the new Bayer drug worked.
This was a 1 million pound budgeted project, and we worked very long hours with
the staff brought over from the American arm of Digitas.
The concept of the illustration was to brand it with a style that looked like glass and
semi 3 dimensional, realistic but with a glassy effect.
I worked closely with the entire team, and liaised a couple of times a week with the
client and also the doctors, to educate on usability and design and to make sure the
illustrations were as correct as I could get them.

7. Illustration Bayer

8. Art Direction
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Hand Bag.com - Hearst Digital agency
This web site is a combination of many women’s magazines. The project required
ideas for pitch. The client Diet Coke had brought out a vitamin drink and needed a
micro site that appealed to women 16- 50+
As this target market was very broad; I was hired to help on the creative strategy. I
suggested a Shoreditch/ Soho house type of site, where each room catered to
certain age groups, e.g.: 16-21 year olds would have a room where they can vote for
the hottest guys in movies or sport and sign up for sample cosmetics.
Another room 22-30 would be more geared towards going out, the hottest spots in
London etc..
30-40 would be cross sold the latest perfumes, cosmetics for youthful skin and
makeup.. the 50+ would be in the VIP area and be offered a more sophisticated
experience on health and beauty.
I created the main design and then handed it to the team, and they created the rest
of the site. The work was then pitched in by the CD and they won the pitch.
I was also tasked with creating some rich media for Kiwi, they were unhappy with
their last campaign of banners and wanted something fun and interesting. As the
Kiwi brand was very 1950s looking and traditional, they were attempting to take
the brand forward. At the time Tango Zebra had created the interconnect banners,
where three banner ads worked as one and talked to each other, so the animations
could flow one to the other.
I created stills showing a Dr Zeus styled shoe factory, showing the new gel party
feet shoe inlays that Kiwi were pushing, they liked the idea and we built the banners.
That campaign was one of the first to use the component as TZ was launching at
the same time as our banners. Click here to view.

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Jameson - Libertine.
This project was a large one; I was hired to be the brand illustrator and designer.
Jameson UK had next to no digital presence unlike its American counterpart and
they wanted to create something special. Only problem on this project was, the
something special kept eluding the client, as there was no contract in place between
the client and the agency. This project became client lead, and also lead to the Art
Director quitting, so I was asked to step in. I worked with the writer to create
layouts and direction.
This took many different directions as the client kept changing their mind.
Originally the Art D, writer and I were going down the motion graphics route,
combining old world charm with conceptual imagery.
We pitched in the use of photography and illustration. The client liked it, but
decided they wanted something more masculine, green and video driven.
They also said to use rubix cube, this is about the time the Art D quit. I took the
Rubix cube idea, the fact client like the 3D perspective of Bravia site and also the
sections of many others and attempted to create a premium site that used allot of
video and paper vision. I worked on the Art direction, design and wire framing for
three months.
Jameson Illustration styles.
Concept was to use flash and motion graphics in an illustrative way, using the de-
scriptions of Whiskey, which can consist of leather, wood, citrus, honey, nuts etc..
Combining vector, sketch and photography, to create a juxtaposition of elements to
define the taste of the different Whiskeys.
Also using a carousel flash type menu systems to pick and choose the desired
whiskey, to see it spring to life in creative and delightful ways.
While working at Libertine I also created site design for Tabasco they had no Digital
brand in the UK, I created a few different styles before I left and also designed the
flash micro site for Ryvita’s Limbos product launch.

13. Art Direction
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True Blue
Working as a freelance CD in a small company in Qld for around 3 months,
I was asked by the owner to re brand his company site and create a digital arm
brand.This digital arm was to be small, but very Australian as their clients were
mining types etc..
I re branded their corporate site, made it into an umbrella site for his other busi-
nesses. Created the small digital arm, True blue, created the brand mascot Bluey,
wrote a brand story, created the colours and some designs and wrote brand
guidelines.
The banners reflected the same style and I mentored a print designer in her first lot
of banner ads, which she did a marvelous job.

15. Illustration
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Le Boudoir and Grace Designs
A personal client who started their own lifestyle business for women, so throwing
product parties and selling products on the web site that were boudoir driven.
Soft, sophisticated and feminine. I was briefed to take a Max Oliver brand approach
to the illustration but also to create images that were Audrey Hepburn inspired and
16th century furniture to create the ultimate boudoir.
The logo for the clients clothing line, Grace Designs also followed the sketch style. I
coloured all the brand illustration in photoshop, flat color but rich.

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Vodafone - Adding Value ( small agency - personal client)
I was hired on an ongoing basis to illustrate for print, flash and help build the flash
micro site. All the work was for internal communications, it covered from sponsor-
ship and events, to printed calendars to animated banners for internal landing pages.
All the work needed to be high end just like B2C... I needed to follow the strict
guidelines of Vodafone illustration and brand.
There was a very large amount of work created for this client, all the work was in
the same sort of creative direction.
I also would sketch the work first, get client approval, before redrawing in vectors,
colouring and animating. I would also story board animation in sketch form first for
client sign off.

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Freelance varied- ID Work.
These are some examples of Logo work, ranging from changing the Rhino
records logo to sit in a 3d TV, I drew in illustrator.
This client wanted a 50s type TV in a
3d style with their logo on the screen
Corporate logo for Stock, very strong
print style was needed. A minimalist
direction to create a strong, structured
logo for all company ID.
Rype, a small I.T company, the brief
was a desire for a contemporary and
fresh logo.
I illustrated the logo from a sketch,
no fonts were used.

18. IA and Template Design for iPad - ACP Magazines Information Architecture
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( Publishing - Client side )
Page wire framing to show placement without the distraction of design and to
perfect usability.
Master template created to help educate the print designers at ACP with designing layouts in Pho-
toshop, instead of Indesign and preparing images for digital so that the work can be best under-
stood by their developers in India. I created this master to show menu states, function and layout
for both portrait and landscape.
I also supplied tech spec links from Apples site and a few other links for articles on user interface
design for the iPad and the basics of good design principles for iPad.
And links from the Nielson Norman group on user testing results for the iPad.

19. Information Architecture
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20. Illustration
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Altium ( Software company - Client side )
I was brought on board for 2 months, to illustrate and create icons for Altium’s lat-
est software. I have also created style guides and master templates of the icons, so
that future icon design will have some brand style to it.
This has been an educational process for the client, as they have never dealt in
brand guidelines or style guides.
I am also helping with their user interface; to download, update, remove and buy
plug-ins, the interface is built around an iTunes styled shop. I am taking what they
have already created and adding my user experience background and software de-
sign experience also, so that the interface navigates intuitively and sticks to basic
design principles.
The second half of this contract is to work on the campaign creative for the release
of the new software on 31st of January, 2011.

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