Jim Parry
Creative Specialising in Graphic Design and Branding
+61 414 656 252 / jim@jimparry.com.au
Creative Specialising in Graphic Design and Branding
+61 414 656 252 / jim@jimparry.com.au
Jim Parry is an award-winning creative and branding designer with over 30 years experience. He has collaborated with numerous lifestyle and fashion brands, crafting impactful visual identities for artisanal startups and shaping ambitious hospitality projects. Jim's tailored approach ensures that he fully understands the client's personality, products and goals before delivering solutions which are intuitive, thorough and often delightfully unexpected.
London, United Kingdom
1996 – 2000
IPC MEDIA
Art Director of Loaded Magazine
Parry was Art Director of Loaded Magazine back in a day when it was packed with great writing and had blokes on the cover. He won the IPC Magazine Designer of the year in 1998 and achieved a Guinness World Record for 100 magazine covers for a single edition at the turn of the Millennium.
1996 – 2000
IPC MEDIA
Art Director of Loaded Magazine
Parry was Art Director of Loaded Magazine back in a day when it was packed with great writing and had blokes on the cover. He won the IPC Magazine Designer of the year in 1998 and achieved a Guinness World Record for 100 magazine covers for a single edition at the turn of the Millennium.
Sydney, Australia
2000 – 2013
MINE DESIGN
Founder
Mine Design was established in 2000 after migrating to Sydney. With a head full of back-packer idealism, Parry set forth on a journey into the land of branding, advertising, and T-shirt graphics. He has worked extensively with the highly acclaimed creative agency The Glue Society across many award winning campaigns. Parry further indulged his passion for editorial design as the first art director of 'Dumbo Feather, Pass It On' Magazine. Mine Design was honoured with designing the Australian Writers and Art Directors (A.W.A.R.D) Annual in 2005. Parry judged the typographic section of A.W.A.R.D 2007 and the Australian Creative Hotshop Awards 2008. Jim now designs his own line of typographic driven T-shirts, aptly entitled 'Nervous Passenger' after his own struggles in the typeface of adversity…
2000 – 2013
MINE DESIGN
Founder
Mine Design was established in 2000 after migrating to Sydney. With a head full of back-packer idealism, Parry set forth on a journey into the land of branding, advertising, and T-shirt graphics. He has worked extensively with the highly acclaimed creative agency The Glue Society across many award winning campaigns. Parry further indulged his passion for editorial design as the first art director of 'Dumbo Feather, Pass It On' Magazine. Mine Design was honoured with designing the Australian Writers and Art Directors (A.W.A.R.D) Annual in 2005. Parry judged the typographic section of A.W.A.R.D 2007 and the Australian Creative Hotshop Awards 2008. Jim now designs his own line of typographic driven T-shirts, aptly entitled 'Nervous Passenger' after his own struggles in the typeface of adversity…
Sydney, Australia
2007 – 2009
GLUE SOCIETY
Art Director
Art Director for multi award winning creative agency 'The Glue Society' working across many brands including Elle MacPherson Intimates, Marcs, Canterbury, Speedo, Virgin mobile and 42 Below.
2007 – 2009
GLUE SOCIETY
Art Director
Art Director for multi award winning creative agency 'The Glue Society' working across many brands including Elle MacPherson Intimates, Marcs, Canterbury, Speedo, Virgin mobile and 42 Below.
Sydney, Australia
2004 – 2011
DUMBO FEATHER, PASS IT ON MAGAZINE.
Art Director / Designer
Art director and designer of the first 26 issues of Dumbo Feather, Pass It On. An award winning magazine dedicated to the interesting lives of truly inspirational people.
2004 – 2011
DUMBO FEATHER, PASS IT ON MAGAZINE.
Art Director / Designer
Art director and designer of the first 26 issues of Dumbo Feather, Pass It On. An award winning magazine dedicated to the interesting lives of truly inspirational people.
Sydney, Australia
2007 – PRESENT DAY
NERVOUS PASSENGER
A dark humour inspired t-shirt brand.
www.nervouspassenger.com
2007 – PRESENT DAY
NERVOUS PASSENGER
A dark humour inspired t-shirt brand.
www.nervouspassenger.com
EDUCATION
Brighton, United Kingdom
1988 – 1991
University Of Brighton
Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design and Illustration
Brighton, United Kingdom
1988 – 1991
University Of Brighton
Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design and Illustration
East Croydon, United Kingdom
1988 – 1986
Croydon College Of Art And Design
A two year 'General' Art and Design [GAD] course studying Graphic, Textile and 3d Design specialising in Graphics in the second year.
1988 – 1986
Croydon College Of Art And Design
A two year 'General' Art and Design [GAD] course studying Graphic, Textile and 3d Design specialising in Graphics in the second year.
AWARDS
2000
Guinness World Record for Designing the most amount of magazine covers for one issue of a magazine. Loaded magazine had 100 covers for the magazine at the turn of the millennium.
1998
IPC Magazine Designer of the Year
2000
Guinness World Record for Designing the most amount of magazine covers for one issue of a magazine. Loaded magazine had 100 covers for the magazine at the turn of the millennium.
1998
IPC Magazine Designer of the Year