Dominic Williamson (he/him)
dominic-designs@outlook.com • LinkedIn
Seattle, WA • (206) 355-0596
Qualifications Summary - Senior Graphic Designer
Multifaceted, accomplished graphic designer and artist with over 20 years’ professional experience. Exceptional design skills; expertise in graphics and asset building, logo development, poster production, and social media graphics. A strong sense of color theory, displays a mastery of digital compositions, with great attention to detail and artistic flare. Worked with layout, typography, photography, and motion graphics over a diverse career. While working within educational field, collaborated with faculty, problem solving complicated concepts, using insight and excellent communication skills to arrive at aesthetic, instructional solutions, adapting ideas into the most appropriate instructional media. Works well autonomously and within a team with superb verbal and written communication skills. Ability to meet tight deadlines while balancing multiple projects and switching between platforms. Intimate knowledge of Adobe products with keen enthusiasm for new technology and tools. Career has spanned many design disciplines, adapting to the demands of each unique project with ingenuity and authenticity. BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ advocate.
Areas of Expertise
Adobe Suite expertise
Logo and branding development
Infographics, design and build
Problem solving
Social media graphics
WordPress, Squarespace, website design
Beautiful Digital illustrations
Icon and button design
Adept communicator
Print design
Photo editing/manipulation
Digital badge design
Online course content, banners, logos, graphics
Print - brochures, business cards
Promo merchandise design
HTML and CSS
Wayfinding, financial reports
Asset management
HTML email marketing
Collaborating and training colleagues
Education
Bachelor of Art (Hons) Graphic Design (Illustration)
Norwich University of the Arts (U.K.)
Art Foundation
Middlesex University (U.K.)
Career Experience
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY – Seattle, WA - OCT 2023 – PRESENT
Senior Digital Designer
Digital designer with over 20 years’ experience in online education. Develops and enhances online and hybrid courses collaborating with instructional designers, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders to create engaging and innovative digital learning experiences. Expertise in graphic design, multimedia production, and user-centered design helping deliver high-quality educational content to our diverse student body. Creates visually appealing and interactive digital assets, including graphics, illustrations, videos, animations, and multimedia elements, that enhance the learning experience. Develops and maintained a consistent visual style and brand identity for online courses, ensuring compliance with the institution's guidelines and accessibility standards. Applies instructional design principles to create effective user interfaces, navigation structures, and interactive elements that support active learning and student engagement. Conducts thorough research and analysis to identify emerging trends, technologies, and best practices in digital learning and incorporate them into course design strategies. Collaborates with faculty, program directors, and instructional designers to ensure high-quality media assets are created for courses. Staying up to date with emerging technologies, design tools, and industry standards to continuously improve the digital learning experience. Providing guidance and mentorship to colleagues, sharing best practices, and fostering a culture of creativity and innovation. Conducts usability testing and gather feedback from students and instructors to inform iterative design improvements and enhance the overall learning experience. Ensuring compliance with copyright and intellectual property guidelines when sourcing and using multimedia assets.
SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY – Seattle, WA Sept 2000 – July 2023
Senior Graphic Designer
Graphic artist with very broad range of skills and experience. Collaborated with University faculty, developing and producing fully realized instructional visual interpretations of complicated concepts. Partnered with advertising department to create illustrative, digital artwork and layouts for various campaigns and events. Switched gears during pandemic to support online courses, creating digital content to enable teaching to continue online. Creates and manages blogs and websites and HTML newsletters. Has worked with animation, 3D illustrations, motion graphics, sequential instructional diagrams, decorative artwork for print and online. Worked closely with and mentored colleagues. Developed logos, merchandise, book covers, business cards, technical documents and annual reports. A passionate creative with a love for art and design, able to collaborate with a team, brainstorming and developing ideas with sensitivity and respect, but also driven autonomously. Well versed in Adobe Suite and Microsoft products and quick and enthused to pick up new tools.
BUSINESS LINK – London, St. Albans U.K. 1998 – 2000
Program / Web Administrator
Prepared graphics for web. Quality presentation materials and data entry for small business advisor in government-funded program. Managed spreadsheets, coordinating and event planning, plus other office duties.
Published Graphics Work
Artificial Intelligence and the Apocalyptic Imagination - Michael J. Paulus Jr. (cover art)
Brand Driven – F. J. LePla, Susan V. Davis, Lynn M. Parker (iconography)
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, Brittany Tausen (diagrams)
Recentering Psych Stats, Lynette H. Bikos (cover art)
The Program Evaluation Prism, Martin Lee Abbott (cover art and diagrams)
Websites
Gravity Research Foundation website: https://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/
Educational Technology and Media website: https://scholars.spu.edu/etm/
Laura Lasworth website:
https://www.lauralasworth.com/