TOM WATTS

artist.designer.developer

Accomplished digital designer who just never got over art

I am a seasoned professional creative with extensive experience designing and maintaining enterprise-level web products, publications and software solutions. My traditional art roots instilled within me a creative intuition that has amplified my design problem solving for an every growing set of mediums. Whether I am finding a novel way to apply CSS, drive user engagement, manage a brand or put the finishing touch on a painting, my experience gives me the confidence to fearlessly approach any creative challenge.

my skillset

A little bit of everything

I studied Art Studio at UC Davis, honing my painting and drawing skills under the instruction of Conrad Atkinson and Cornelia Schulz, but quickly moved into digital design after graduation. My portfolio is a unique combination of the composition and color theory of my traditional training and the strategy, technology and research required for success in commercial creativity.

Recognition

I have been fortunate enough to work within some award winning teams. Here are a few of our recent accolades.

  • 2022 Webby People's Voice Winner Websites and Mobile Sites School/University - ucdavis.edu

    My team and I worked through the challenges of the pandemic and a mid-project campus rebrand to produce our best work yet and secure the first ever Webby for UC Davis!

  • 2022 Education Digital Marketing Awards - UC Davis Discoveries Microsite

    To rescue a flagging research section I personally championed a microsite to highlight some of our greatest achievements. The new addition increased the traffic to our research content by 30%.

  • 2020 Educational Advertising Awards Gold - UC Davis Brandguide

    To roll out the UC Davis rebrand we rebuilt our brand site in our campus drupal platform and won a website refresh award.

  • 2017 CASE National Gold Award - UC Davis Grand Canyon Website

    This one was personal...literally. I built this site from the ground up from concept to completion including all code and art direction. The site went on to win CASE gold in four different categories.

  • 2018 CASE Gold Award - Science & Climate Subsite

    My first experience building a wordpress site allowed me to create an award winning design in only a few days.

  • 2020 CASE gold award - UC Davis Impact Through Intersections Subsite

    We created this site to highlight the cross-functional collaboration of UC Davis research and the innovative design garnered some recognition.

Featured projects

Melancholy Brown

40 x 30 acrylic on canvas

UC Davis Website 6.0

Enterprise website

Sonoma State Digital Redesign

Site audit & redesign

Let's work

Whether you need a complete rebrand, site audit, new content strategy or even want to commission a work of art, I would love to talk shop.

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