I'm Esben Hindhede and Chili Factory is my portfolio. I'm a student at The Danish School of Media and Journalism, located in Copenhagen, Denmark. I’m studying Interactive Design and currently interning at Hello Monday for 4 months.


Work

Historie Dysten

web + identity + print


Tea Solutions

web + identity + print


Hi, I'm Esben and Chili Factory is my portfolio. I'm a 26 year old interactive design student at The Danish School of Media and Journalism, located in Copenhagen, Denmark. This november (2011) I joined the Hello Monday team for 4 months as an interactive design intern. Apart from this, I'm employed as Junior Interactive Art Director at Plant and self-employed, doing design work.

I create user friendly websites, and I'm an expert at web and interface design, but also enjoy working on print, visual identities and motion graphics. Go see my work or check out my résumé below.

In my spare time I enjoy sports, especially running and biking. I completed Copenhagen Marathon 2010 and recently completed the 2011 edition as well.

Studying interactive design, I enjoy attending events focusing on digital design. I've been to FITC (Flash In The Can) 2011 in Amsterdam and OFFF 2011 in Barcelona. Both events were very inspirering.


résumé




HTX - High school


2001 - 2004   The Higher Technical Examination


High school with a technical perspective.

  1. Main focus on construction and energy.
  2. Science
  3. Design
  4. Technology

Døesvej 76, 7500 Holstebro
web: htx.ucholstebro.dk



HHX - High school


2004 - 2005   The Higher Commercial Examination


I chose to add an extra year to my existing high school diploma. Main focus:

  1. Business law
  2. Economics
  3. Marketing
  4. IT

Døesvej 76, 7500 Holstebro
web: hhx.ucholstebro.dk



Multimedia Design


2006 - 2008   
AP graduate in Multimedia Design & Communication


Studying multimedia design, I chose to focus my attention to the design and front-end part of webdesign.

  1. Web design
  2. HTML and CSS
  3. Business structure
  4. Design theory

Gl. Landevej 2, 7400 Herning
web: www.eamv.dk



Interactive Design, BA degree


2009 - 2012 (expected)   
Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX)


After passing an entrance examination with hundreds of participants, I was accepted at DMJX as an Interactive Designer alongside 19 others. My focus:

  1. Digital design
  2. Web, app and editorial design.

Emdrupvej 72, 2400 København NV
phone: +45 8944 0440
web: www.mediehojskolen.dk/interaktivt_design



Dansk Supermarked


2001 - 2008   Sales assistant / Area manager


Part time job during high school and my time studying Multimedia Design. I spent one year working full time, saving to travel The U.S. later on. During this period, I was area manager for a part of the electronics department.



Co3 Web Agency


2008 - 2010   Web + graphic designer


Co3 is a web agency. They do lots of b2b webshops and ecommerce in general. As a Multimedia Designer, my primary task was to do web design but I handled other tasks as well:

  1. Multimedia design in general.
  2. Webdesign and front-end development using Dynamicweb.
  3. Basic flash elements and banners.
  4. Customer correspondance.

Strøget 38, 7430 Ikast‎
phone: +45 9725 0333      web: www.co3.dk



Plant


2010 - present   Junior Interactive Art Director


Plant is a digital agency. We create creative solutions based on insights and great ideas. My role as a Jr. Interactive AD leads me to do the following:

  1. Various digital design work.
  2. Developing and animating flash using AS 3.0
  3. Motion graphics / case videos using After Effects.

Ravnsborggade 8B, 2200 København
phone: +45 3210 0035      web: www.plantcph.dk



Hello Monday


2011 - present   Interactive Design intern





Skills


Software




Im an expert at Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and InDesign but also use Adobe After Effects in some of my projects.

Development




I do front-end code using valid XHTML and CSS 2+3. I've built various ActionScript 3 solutions spanning from banners to websites. I built this site using The Secretary CMS, implementing a custom theme, designed and built by me.

CMS experience




I'm a certified system designer in Dynamicweb, have implemented custom designs in Wordpress and done a couple of sites using CMS Made Simple.