About Chris Walsh
Chris Walsh is a highly experienced Interaction Designer and brand development consultant at Hyperion Interactive, a small design company providing digital, print and interaction design services and products. Passionate about design education, Chris also contributes to various academic institutions both as guest lecturer and content advisor / consultant.
After graduating from the London College of Communication in Typographic Design, Chris was immediately placed at various London and international design and advertising agencies before moving to freelance status, primarily to broaden experience and expertise. With desktop publishing an emerging technology, Chris spent the following few years working successively with leading design agencies both above and below-the-line on a diverse range of corporate identity and brand development, print and publishing design and advertising and marketing,
A growing interest in ‘environmental’ design and a rare opportunity to follow in the footsteps of Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert led Chris to the Department for Transport, where as primary designer he established new digital publishing workflows and went on to create many of the contemporary road signs and symbols seen on Britain’s roads today.
Recognising the need for continuing professional development, Chris then undertook a full time Master’s Degree: Design for Interactive Media at the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, graduating prior to the dot-com boom. Chris was immediately appointed in a succession of fixed-term, senior positions as Director of design, Design manager, online brand developer and design consultant, assisting imminent IPOs, start-ups and investing multinational/multi-disciplinary media conglomerates. Chris now holds the position of Design Director and Consultant at Hyperion Interactive, a design consultancy providing cross-media brand and corporate identity solutions for a diverse client base.
