Brief Summary
Hi, my name is Rishad and I am T. Rex Design. We design really good user interfaces for web and mobile. We also design books, editorial, print and identity.
Clients
Tegu, Orientography, Ogilvy & Mather, Oracle, Random House, Hachette, Picador, Harper Collins, Mid Day, Westland, Next Multimedia, Fabindia, Nanyang Technological University, Star Television, Wanganui Chronicle, The Straits Times, Jacaranda Press, Hill Road Media.
Professional Experience
Founder, principal designer
T. Rex Design
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry
2008 – Present (4 years) Singapore, India
I just designed an e-commerce website for an innovative toy company based in the USA.
I'm in the process of designing the branding, website and iPhone app prototype for a Silicon Valley startup.
I was a judge at the recent WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards 2012.
I recently designed mocomi.com, a kids' website for a digital media company. I also redesigned their logo.
Designed a rebranding project for an international investment holdings company, including logo and corporate identity design, website design and marketing peripherals design.
Developed UX-related design for fabindia.com, one of India's leading handloom clothing and home furnishings brands.
Editing images for a new stock photo agency that specialises in Asian images.
Designed various communication projects for Ogilvy Health, Singapore.
Designed a corporate identity for a new media company in India.
Art-directed and designed a coffee table book created to attract foreign investment to an Indian state.
Designed Civil Disobedience: Two Freedom Struggles, One Life, the memoirs of the great LC Jain.
Designed and design-edited the official athletes' newspaper for the Youth Olympic Games 2010 as part of a month-long teaching project with journalism students at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Art-directed and designed a commemorative book for Star Television in India.
Designed and shot photographs for a coffee table book about the anniversary of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks.
Design book covers for Picador, Random House, Hachette, Westland Books and Harper Collins.
Designed email communication for Oracle.
Redesigned the Wanganui Chronicle, a daily broadsheet in New Zealand, as well as The Emirates Evening Post in Dubai and Mid Day in Mumbai, both daily afternoon newspapers.
Redesigned jacaranda-press.com, a website for a literary agency, thehoot.org, a media watchdog website and hillroadmedia.com, a content company.
Design corporate and brand identities.
Assistant Editor, Design
Wanganui Chronicle
February 2008 – November 2008 (10 months) Wanganui, New Zealand
In my capacity as design editor, I was responsible for the redesign and navigation of content in New Zealand’s oldest daily newspaper. As a graphic designer, I worked with reporters, photographers and editors to manage information and tell stories more effectively.
Editorial Consultant
The Straits Times, Singapore
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry
August 2004 – July 2007 (3 years)
I art-directed four weekly magazine sections that covered health, technology and school-specific content, two of which I designed. I redesigned the health magazine. I worked with different editors and editorial teams to plan content and editorial strategy.
Group Creative Director
Mid Day Multimedia Ltd
Public Company; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry
1995 – 2004 (9 years)
I was responsible for the design and convergence of the Mid Day Group brands across media. I worked with different newsdesks across the group newspapers. My work included supervision of news design, graphic design, sound design for the radio station and web design overview. I handled some brand advertising and communication for the group. I was part of the team that redesigned the group’s newspapers in 2000.
I was also involved with training young journalists and designers.
Copywriter
Ogilvy & Mather
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; WPP; Marketing and Advertising industry
1993 – 1995 (2 years)
I wrote advertising copy for clients like Johnson & Johnson, AT&T and Shell. This included copy for radio, television, print and outdoor media.
