Motion design shop Artifact Design has signed award-winning designer Ken Edge as a senior designer, says Ken Virgins, owner and creative director at Artifact.

Edge, who spent most of the summer at Artifact as a freelance designer, was previously with CNN. During his three-year tenure at the Atlanta-based news network, Edge garnered three prestigious BDA (Broadcast Design Association) design awards for his work on package design, title sequences, and bumpers.

Edge recently completed his first motion design project with Artifact for Mountain View Productions, designing and animating a graphics package for The Coca- Cola Company that will be used worldwide. He is also currently leading Artifact's design team in creating 2D and 3D elements for a feature-length documentary directed by Art Spigel of Los Angeles-based production company 7ate9.

In addition to being a talented and accomplished designer, Edge is also a gifted musician. You can find him in Atlanta's local music scene playing bass guitar with his band Self Help Tapes. Before moving to Atlanta, the German-born Edge lived in Savannah, where he was a web designer for the comic book company Zylonol. He received a degree in graphic design from the Savannah College of Art and Design.