I'm a strategic, hands-on design leader with over 20 years’ experience shaping brands. I've spent 10 years managing creative teams, aligning design outcomes with business goals. I'm a skilled leader with extensive expertise in ensuring consistent, high-impact design across digital, print, motion, and environmental channels. I am skilled in team leadership and cross-functional collaboration. I balance creative vision with practical delivery to produce work that's both impactful and memorable.…

Neil Robinson

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I'm a strategic, hands-on design leader with over 20 years’ experience shaping brands. I've spent 10 years managing creative teams, aligning design outcomes with business goals. I'm a skilled leader with extensive expertise in ensuring consistent, high-impact design across digital, print, motion, and environmental channels. I am skilled in team leadership and cross-functional collaboration. I balance creative vision with practical delivery to produce work that's both impactful and memorable.…

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I’m a strategic, hands-on design leader with over 20 years’ experience shaping brands. I’ve spent 10 years managing creative teams, aligning design outcomes with business goals.

I’m a skilled leader with extensive expertise in ensuring consistent, high-impact design across digital, print, motion, and environmental channels. I am skilled in team leadership and cross-functional collaboration. I balance creative vision with practical delivery to produce work that’s both impactful and memorable.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Brand & Creative Consultant at Established Seventy Seven
June 30, 2025 - Present
Independent consultancy delivering brand, product, and digital design. Designed and prototyped digital report interfaces for a global executive search organisation; refreshed logos, websites, campaign assets, and collateral to support client launches and growth. Acted as brand guardian and design lead, collaborating with founders, project owners, designers and developers.
Global Head of Design at Tenth Revolution Group
December 15, 2016 - August 15, 2025
Directed the brand and design function for a global tech recruitment and training group, overseeing creative direction for seven distinct brands across EMEA, North America, and APAC. * Created and implemented brand architecture for launches and rebrands within the AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow markets. * Oversaw front-end design and UX collaboration for responsive websites, optimising client and candidate journeys across multiple regions. * Built and managed a high-performing in-house design team of up to 10 designers, supervising recruitment, mentoring, and skills development. * Partnered cross-functionally with marketing, social, and content teams to embed visual storytelling into campaign strategy, driving stronger audience engagement. * Managed relationships with external creative agencies, freelancers, and suppliers, setting briefs, negotiating contracts, and ensuring brand quality.
Graphic & Web Designer at Tenth Revolution Group
March 30, 2015 - December 14, 2016
Supported rapid company growth by designing digital and print collateral; developed website layouts and landing pages in collaboration with developers, ensuring UI/UX best practice. Contributed to rebranding projects, refining visual identities and evolving design systems.
Graphic & Web Designer (Freelance) at Freelance (SMEs)
January 1, 2014 - March 27, 2015
Provided design and branding support for SMEs, delivering print, digital, and web solutions, including logos, web design, social graphics, and print collateral across various sectors.
Senior Designer at Printing.com (Worm Creative)
September 11, 2000 - December 30, 2013
Hired as a Graphic Designer within a busy design and print franchise; promoted to Senior Designer in 2003. Led branding and marketing materials creation for SMEs; delivered print-ready artwork across multiple formats.

Education

BA (Hons) PProduct Design at Leeds Beckett University
January 1, 1996 - January 1, 1999

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Education
    Hidden Layer branding
    Defining a clear, credible visual identity for a specialist AI recruitment consultancy. Delivery focused on logo development, brand foundations, and core launch assets to support early-stage growth. Year: 2025 Full project page](https://www.twine.net/signin branding webdesigner designer graphicdesigner logo…
    SearchLight Counselling visual identity
    Rebranding a counselling and therapy charity to reflect clarity, care, and guidance. Deliverables included brand new logo, colour scheme, guidelines, website design and stationery. Year: 2025 Full project page](https://www.twine.net/signin logo branding graphicdesigner designer…
    Digital Revolution Awards branding
    Updating the logo and branding for a global awards and fundraiser and working with the in-house marketing team to deliver website updates, social media motion graphics, event branding and print collateral. Year: 2024-25 Client website](https://www.twine.net/signin Full project page](https://www.twine.net/signin graphicdesigner branding designer logo…
    Revolent Group branding
    Creating a visual identity and brand strategy for a new tech talent creation and training company. The project involved logo design, website build, promotional collateral and training materials. Year: 2020 Client website](https://www.twine.net/signin Full project page](https://www.twine.net/signin branding graphicdesigner webdesigner…
    Tenth Revolution Group branding
    Revitalising the visual identity and brand positioning of a global tech talent creation and recruitment firm. Delivery involved a revamped logo, ground-up build of the new website, video promotion work, and updates to all internal and external collateral and assets. Year: 2023 Client website](https://www.twine.net/signin Full project page](https://www.twine.net/signin branding webdesigner designer graphicdesigner…
    Go Beyond brand update
    Updating the visual identity of the internal employee branding for a global recruitment organisation. Deliverables included revamped colourways, brand guidelines, presentation and social media templates, print brochures, internal employee survey graphics, and office manifestations. Year: 2022 Full project page](https://www.twine.net/signin branding graphicdesigner designer…
    Careers and Hiring Guide website
    Updating the design theme for the annual survey report into Salesforce career insights, hiring trends, and salaries. The report is delivered through a micro-site on Mason Frank’s website, with the salary tables available as a downloadable PDF. Year: 2024 Full project page](https://www.twine.net/signin branding webdesigner characterdesign 3ddesign graphicdesigner…
    Salary Survey report
    Designing and printing the annual salary survey report for Nigel Frank covering the skills, motivations, and sentiments in the Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem. Year: 2019 Full project page](https://www.twine.net/signin graphicdesigner print infographics datavisualisation designer…