Bo Spasic

Bo Spasic – Designer

Illustrator, designer and art director. Since 1998.

Overview

Bo is an illustrator. He is happiest while creating children's books and comics, but will gladly indulge in occasional cartoon or commercial work. Beside illustration, Bo is also professing for 25 years as an advertising art director, graphic designer and photographer
Services
Non-Fiction
Children’s Non-Fiction Comics Non-Fiction Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits
Fiction
Comics & Graphic Novels Humor & Comedy Middle Grade Picture Books
Languages
English

Work experience

Self-employed

Sep, 2020 — Present

• Together with my partner, I’ve started a family-run creative business as an addition to existing freelancing gigs
• Helping local and overseas clients with quality creative consultancy and executions
• Continuous support for a career consultancy brand, including identity package, website and training and social media videos
• Videography and photography as part of the content creation
• Developing websites for WordPress and Duda platforms
• Mentoring and curating an emerging art photographer, MRV23, who has already won several important international photographic awards and mentions

smp

Sep, 2019 — Present

• Delivering Graphic Design, Digital Design and Motion Graphics • Creating in-house 3D visualisations
• Being a part of pitch efforts
• Working on complex video effort for the Western Digital brands, including creation and adaptation to 11 languages of the 5 social media videos

Curious World

Sep, 2019 — Nov, 2020 (about 1 year)

• Designed new user interface for the Curious World educational app
• Liaise with the project management team and with the external developers throughout all the stages
• Edited and designed new onboarding and social media videos for the product
• Delivered new designs for the product website and blog and supervised the development process
• Brought several UX improvements to the existing app structure
• Helped with visualisations of the new stages of the projects to the investors

smp

Sep, 2016 — Sep, 2019 (about 3 years)

• Joined the team of the emerging agency focusing on FMCG and Technology products
• I have daily delivered Graphic Design, Digital Design and Motion Graphics
• Introducing the in-house 3D (previously only done with outsourced talents), making it a standard in presenting work to clients
• Being a part of the several pitch efforts

Friends\TBWA

Feb, 2003 — Mar, 2016 (about 13 years)

• I have co-founded this agency in 2003 with my copywriter and a few more friends
• Actively work on winning first clients (Unilever, Canon)
• Being the backbone of the creative department since day one
• Sustained all agency clients with creative strategy and supervision of creative processes
• Being a major stakeholder in all agency pitch efforts and actively presenting the creative work, winning important new clients or brands - e.g. three Phillip Morris brands following the fake pitch for Marlboro (by presenting a native mobile app for customer engagement)
• Together with my creative partner, I had a significant role in Romania’s business and advertising circles, leading to the agency being partially sold in 2008 and in 2014 joining TBWA group

Tempo Advertising

Jul, 1999 — Jan, 2003 (over 3 years)

• Part of the exclusive pitch team - together with my copywriter, we won 19 out of 21 in the first year
• Built first of a kind digital presentation (CD-Rom) for the agency used extensively in new business efforts
• Participate at Golden Drum with the digital work before the category existed - got special jury mention
• Create winning campaigns and actively present creative work to existing and potential clients (Orange, Unilever, ProTV, Playboy to mention a few)

Graffiti BBDO

Feb, 1998 — Jun, 1999 (over 1 year)

• Joined the team as a junior and worked extensively to learn and prove myself
• Pioneering work on website design using (at the time cutting edge) Macromedia Dreamweaver and experimenting with multi-media presentations, creating them in mTropolis (a visionary object programming app bought and killed by QuarkXPress in 2000) and Macromedia Director

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