Patrick Connell

Background

About Patrick Connell

Patrick Connell has been a design professional working from Perth (WA), Sydney (NSW) and Bunbury (WA) for almost three decades. Patrick operates on the core belief that great design makes a difference. His professional objectives have always been creative excellence and innovation, and his achievement of these objectives is evidenced by a string of national, state and regional awards over the span of his career. Patrick is passionate about design in all its incarnations and has acted as a designer, art director, creative director and business strategist for many of Western Australia’s top 100 companies. He honed his skills in an industry that has seen the advent of the desktop publishing, digital design, cloud technologies, e-commerce, and social and other new media. Through all of these radical technological developments, Patrick has lent his skill as a creative director as an underlying factor in generating client success and building effective brands. Patrick has many years’ experience as a design professional WA, during which time, he has been involved with government, public and private companies. His work has touched a wide range of industries, including tourism and recreation, technology, primary industries, retail and wholesale, arts and entertainment, building, property, education, communications and media, health, financial services, manufacturing, food and beverages, resources and energy, transport and mining. Patrick has led a design team for a number of years, both in external employment and within his own company, Chameleon Creative; and more recently with Dash Digital. Patrick was a founding director and executive creative director of Chameleon Designs, Chameleon Creative, The Inductor, Dash Digital, and Velpic. Through his executive and managerial roles in the above companies, Patrick built a solid foundation of knowledge in financial reporting, sales and marketing, HR systems, reporting and environmental responsibilities.