Jacob Zinman-Jeanes    /    
Email jacob@jeanes.co.


I am a multidisciplinary graphic interaction experience product brand designer and illustrator who works on everything*.

For the past 8 years I was Design Director at Today, building an award-winning agency design practice. I led and worked directly on hundreds of digital, brand, product and strategy projects for companies of all shapes and sizes. Now, I’m available for new work.

Some highlights include:
  • ‘Change starts here’: new brand positioning for change.org
  • 2023 Women’s Football World Cup: Co-creative research and insights for Nike’s campaign platform
  • Xero.com: experience design, digital art direction and design system.
  • Dora: Art Gallery of New South Wales’ new audio companion
  • Bunnings: app product design and information architecture
  • Auslan Anywhere: product design for a peer-to-peer sign language learning app
  • Urgent Mental Health Care Centre: branding and experience design
  • University of Melbourne: homepage and ‘study’ experience design
  • City of Melbourne: Digital service strategy
  • Smartraveller: Experience and interface design

*Everything?

I’ve made video games, designed apps for banks, created design systems for scale-ups, run co-creative research with young people, developed brands for non-profits, made illustrations for books, written music for videos, explored the meaning of sounds for public transit, finessed the product and interaction design of social media apps, hybrid physical/digital experiences, digital government services, and when I was 14 I made one of the most popular emoticons on DeviantArt.

2010–Now Freelance and consulting
2017–2025 Design Director at Today
2014–2017 Design Lead at Today
2013–2014 Creative Lead at Tuts+
2010–2013 Designer at Envato

I’VE WORKED WITH...

Nike
change.org
Oxfam
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Xero
Bunnings
Stanford StartX
Myer
Medibank
ANZ
Wacom
World Vision Australia
University of Melbourne
Deakin
Expression Australia
Assemble
Local, state and federal governments
and many more

RECOGNITION

Premier’s Design Awards Victoria: Digital Strategy (2017), Web Design (2019), Digital Design (2020) ✢ Good Design Awards: Web Design (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015), Apps and Software (2023), Interface Design (2023), Design Research (2023), Social Impact (2022) ✢ Australian Design Awards: Branding (2023) ✢ Melbourne Design Awards: Marketing/Campaigns (2022), Branding (2022) ✢ AGDA Awards: Digital (2021, 2019, 2016) ✢ Webby Nominee: Best Government Website (2016)


Speaking, teaching, WRITING  

2021 “How to Design by Commitee” for Optimal Workshop's CRUX magazine
2017 Mentor: AGDA Vic Mentor
2016 Guest lecturer: Shillington Design School
2016 Guest lecturer: Billy Blue College of Design
2015 Group mentor: Tractor Design School


2024    Excerpts from new brand positioning for change.org

2024   Website and interaction design for ‘Comfort Zone’, a campaign from Our Watch

2023    Brand, graphic design and website for Partial Veil

2020    Product, character design, illustration and animation for Smiling Mind

2019–2020    Art direction, interaction design, experience design and design system for Xero.com

2020    Studies of me falling over

2019    Brandmark for the Neami Urgent Mental Health Care Centre

2019    Illustration system for the Neami Urgent Mental Health Care Centre