Sean Hegarty

Freelance Senior Integrated Artworker

About me

I’ve spent the past 20 years helping clients build strong, clear and consistent visual communications. My work displays a proven track record of inventive and compelling creative work across print and digital mediums.

I'm looking to build strong relationships with Creative Directors, Designers and Account Managers to create compelling brands and a strong identity for companies. Please view my Curriculum vitae.

Please take time to view my motion and animations work below:

Social media animations

HTML animated web banners

Freelance Integrated Artworker at
Sean Hegarty Creative Ltd
May 2023 - date

Clients and agencies I’ve recently worked with includes Dyson, Trinny London, Anagram, Socrates Communications, Stanley's Post, Uncommon London and Performance54.

Senior Design Engineer
RAPP
February 2021 - December 2022

I worked within the Creative Studio where traditional creative design craft is mixed with cutting edge technology to produce beautiful, personalised work at scale. It was a varied, hybrid role incorporating design, digital artwork, and front-end development disciplines to deliver digital solutions across a list of clients.

Accounts I worked on while at RAPP included Burbery, Virgin Media, Ralph Lauren, Montblanc, PayPal, Laithwaites, IKEA and Mercedes-Benz

Freelance Integrated Artworker at
Sean Hegarty Creative Ltd
June 2013 - February 2021

Enjoyed working for a wide-range of clients, from production and creative agencies, global corporate companies, start ups, charities and media companies. The clients I've recently worked with are listed below:

Clients and agencies I’ve worked for include Identity Design, The Honest Brand, A Place for Rover, Splash Worldwide, Canary Wharf Group, Digitas, NKD Learning, Suburbia, Audio Network Limited, Effection, Me&Dave, Chelsea Football Club, Axa Insurance, Comic Relief, Sectorlight, Wallace Health, Quill Content, Mindshare, Health Circle, Digitas Health Lifebrands, Agora Health, Lambert Smith Hampton, Saatchi Health, Conrad Design Group, Lebara, Architas, Jones Lang LaSalle, Anderson Norton Design, Ampersand, FKA Studios, Lockton Insurance, Adstream, M&G Investments, Savills, Audience Media, The Football Association, G4S, Avery Dennison, Publicis Life Brands, BlackRock, Lusso, Initial, Law Creative and BrocklebankPenn.

Artwork (Print & Digital)

Socrates Communications
Amazon Prime
Ralph Lauren
Burberry
Farfetch
Knight Frank
Performance54
Canary Wharf Group
Rover Inc.
Canary Wharf Group
Jones Lang Lasalle
Blackrock
Blackrock
Lusso
Lambert Smith Hampton
Canary Wharf Group
Lambert Smith Hampton
Burberry
Burberry

Attributes & Skills

  • Craft and prepare artwork for any medium, including press, POS, OOH, bespoke print, digital OOH, online banners and email in strict adherence to client guidelines and industry benchmarks
  • Tailor existing artwork to suit diverse applications and formats, whether resizing for different media or customising designs for distinct and overseas markets
  • A keen eye for detail and a passion for delivering pixel perfect artwork, working in a fast-paced environment
  • Collaborating and building positive, lasting relations with account handling teams and key partners when managing projects simultaneously
  • Pre-press experience, mastery of organising files for print and setting up cutter guides and mastery of die-cutting
  • High proficiency in industry-standard design software including Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, MS Office, Sketch and Figma
  • Produced social media 2D animations using After Effects
  • Knowledge of hand-coding and timeline animated HMTL banners, using HTML, CSS and JavaScript (Greensock)
  • Maintained an orderly file systems and archives, ensuring effortless retrieval and version control
  • Independent with good problem-solving skills. Have a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues which arise in the artworking and production process
  • Strong enthusiasm for keeping abreast of industry trends and new design software/tools

Testimonials

It’s been great working with Sean again! He’s diligent, reliable, very thorough and got on well with all our in-house teams. We have worked with Sean on several occasions over the last year or so, and hopefully we will again soon.

Kate Strawson
Studio Manager at Socrates Communications
(September 2024)

Sean was a real pleasure to work with, always showed initiative and created work to the highest standard. We would love to work with him again.

Hannah Bush
Lead Design Engineer at RAPP Agency (December 2022)

It was an absolute pleasure to have Sean work as part of our team over the last 18 months. Sean has a can-do attitude and demonstrated a highly considered and thoughtful approach to all tasks undertaken. He is extremely professional, has very strong technical skills and made positive and valuable contributions to each project he worked on. Sean will be a very valuable asset to any company that employs him in the future.

Contact

If you have a specific project you would like to discuss, or just want to talk about what I can do for you, please get in touch.

I'm based in NW London within easy travelling distance to central London. I can work remotely in my studio at home and fully mobile, having my own MacBook Pro and subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud. Please call me on 07855 456521 or contact me using the links below:

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