Chris Noble — Creative/Art/Director at Chris Noble Design
Work experience
Chris Noble Design
Creative/Art/Director | 01/2007 - Current
• Art direction and design for a variety of clients including Nike, Eddie Bauer, retail stores, lifestyle and sport clothing companies and media brands.
• Design for branding, retail, environmental, marketing, packaging, video and motion graphics, animation (artistic and informational), clothing graphics, collateral and websites (including code).
• Re/branding and art direction of genre-leading sports magazines and supporting channels.
Chroble
Sole Proprietor | 05/2014 - Current
• Ideation, design, R&D and hand-crafting of product.
• Startup of micro-company.
• Brand design, web build, product photography, ecomm setup and management.
Fiction
Creative Director | 06/2018 - 10/2018
• Campaign concepts, direction, copywriting and team leadership for adidas Horizontal Concepts creative.
• Having applied for a Design Director position, being given a Creative Director role starting out with a major and complex campaign for adidas was a trial by fire. Much learnt in three months. The agency's work well has suddenly dried up and the owner wants to go in a different direction away from creative.
Big-Giant
Senior Designer | 10/2017 - 06/2018
• Design/lead for 2D/3D retail, exhibit and environmental for Nike, Converse, and Western Union’s HQ.
• Quick-turn ideation, creative direction and team leadership.
• Brand design, video and animation direction/execution for happy clients.
adidas AG
Senior Designer, Global Brand Design | 03/2016 - 08/2017
• Built out new adidas NYC flagship retail store with environment and evergreen design and graphics, visual storytelling, wayfinding, collateral design and much more.
• Flagship store ground floor product “launch zone” design including experiential installations, premium window displays and consumer journey.
• Laid a firm foundation for the global workplace design guidelines during his last few weeks with the brand.
• Created creative direction directive for Running category.
• Ideation for Basketball, Training and Women’s categories’ campaigns.
Oregon Business Magazine
Art Director | 01/2014 - 03/2016
• Owned creative direction and design of the company’s flagship magazine, Oregon Business, and its products and channels.
• Rebranding to improve positioning and increase consumer appeal and respect in the marketplace.
• Build materials for digital, events, print and marketing in those spaces.
• Hire and lead creative staff and contributors.
• Keep everything under budget.
GrindMedia
Art Director | 05/2010 - 12/2013
• Redesign and art direction of the California-based Snowboarder Magazine and its various channels from events to video.
• During this time, the magazine was the only one in the sector defying the print magazine downturn.
4130 Publishing Ltd
Director, Creative Director | 07/1994 - 01/2007
• Co-founding and -ownership of the company and all responsibilities that go along with that, from finances to hiring to basic logistics.
• Ownership of company-wide, multi-brand creative.
• Award-winning art direction and design for some of the magazines all of the time, and all of the magazines some of the time. (The magazines ranged from life/style to sports.)
• Ownership of marketing for all brands including print, video, retail, digital, events and influencers.
• Day-to-day running of the company, hand-in-hand with co-owners.
• Building the company from a bootstrap to a world-renowned, market- and genre-leader.
• Leading a hand-picked and happy creative team.
• Leading creative projects for third-party clients, from eateries to fashion.
NB: In 2006 Chris and the other owners got an offer they couldn’t refuse and sold the company.