Who is Matt Harrop? Creative Director, Design Lead, Father, Musician, Romantic, Humanist, Nostalgist...
Hey! Nice to meet you, my name is Matt and I‘m a 41 year old Creative Director currently living in the Free & Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the far North of Germany.
How I got all the way here from little old New Zealand is a very, very long story and one that can wait until we‘re face to face but what I can say is that it involved dirty Rock ’n Roll shenanigans, Japanese ‘Salarymen’ a broken down bus in the Syrian Desert (بادية الشام) and a German Kettenkarussell which all culminated in me leading a design team of 14 designers (give or take) at the renowned digital boutique Fork here in Hamburg.
Before all of that happened I cut my teeth at Massey University where I gained a BDes with Hons and developed an outlook and approach to design that is foremost humanistic and always tries to find the beating heart within the brief.
I‘m currently planning on returning to New Zealand with my small family and as such if you‘re on the look out for someone like me, then get in touch!
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Clients
Like a design version of Hercule Poirot I‘ve spent my entire carrier looking for clues in client briefings, reading between the lines of novel like feedback emails and cross examining clients in a tireless pursuit of “the truth”, my goal: to give them what they need - not what they want.
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Years
Working together with some of the world's biggest brands and creating digital experiences with shelf-lives that would impress your grandmother you could say that I‘m a veteran of the digital age. Although in saying that I have never let my guard down and have always watched the ramparts for anything Cook, Zuckerberg, Page or Brin may throw in my direction.
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Countries
Like a beagle following a scent, a creative and curious person like myself can never stay put once they have a whiff of the wider world. My work and my love for the strangeness, oddities, peculiarities and wonders that surround us have allowed me the pleasure of pushing pixels in Germany, Japan, Warsaw, Liechtenstein and now New Zealand.
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Languages
People always said I had a way with words but I never thought that words could have a way with me! After living in Germany for over 10 years the tricky German language has managed to wiggle its way into my stubborn Anglo brain and now pervades not only my days but also my dreams.
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Matt
Well at least that‘s what my Mum told me...
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