Ian David Marsden on LinkedIn — 75+ Projects in Illustration, Creative Direction & Visual Storytelling

A professional archive rather than simply a social feed

LinkedIn is useful to me less as a stream of short posts than as a structured record of professional work. The profile brings together career history, client projects, disciplines and media in one place, allowing agencies, publishers, creative directors and prospective collaborators to review the breadth of my work independently of this website.

The project entries span work in France, Switzerland, Germany, the United States and other international markets, covering editorial, corporate, educational, cultural, technical and consumer-facing communication.

For someone researching my background before making contact, it offers a second point of reference alongside the portfolio and case studies here on Marsden Illustration.

Breadth without losing the project detail

A broad creative career is difficult to compress into a conventional portfolio grid. A website usually needs to be selective; LinkedIn allows individual projects to remain visible as part of the larger professional record.

That means a visitor can move from larger international assignments to smaller specialist projects and see how different disciplines overlap: illustration with creative direction, character design with branding, animation with visual explanation, or UX communication with sequential storytelling.

The value is not simply the number of projects. It is the ability to see continuity across different media, clients and sectors.

A useful reference for agencies, publishers and clients

For agencies, publishers, creative directors and organisations researching an illustrator or creative partner, the profile provides another way to evaluate experience beyond a curated portfolio.

It shows professional chronology, individual project entries and the range of work carried out across print, digital, branding, motion and narrative communication.

That makes LinkedIn particularly useful when the question is not simply “Does the style fit?” but also “Has this person worked across comparable kinds of communication, audiences and production contexts?”

Explore Further

LinkedIn, portfolio and case studies

The LinkedIn archive complements the more selective material on this website. For a faster overview of finished work, use the portfolio; for deeper project context, visit the case studies and individual project articles.

• Ian David Marsden on LinkedIn
• Illustration Portfolio PDF
• Case Studies
• Clients & Collaborations
• Commissioned Illustration & Campaign Visuals