Work history
Middleweight Graphic Designer
Cottons Centre, Cottons Ln, London SE1 2QG, UKFreelance
● Experience in the use of Click Dimensions e-mail management system.
● Experience in the use of Final Cut Pro.
● Highly proficient in digital artworks illustrations and infographics to increase customer engagement.
● Creating technically correct artwork, implementing brand guidelines and styles to layouts.
● Strongly involved in the rebranding of the companies identity, regularly presenting ideas in a team environment.
● Providing the best artwork/layout/ digital creative solutions to projects to the client's brief.
● Great communication skill, used to to interact with the marketing teams, as well as the wider design and development team.
● working on a wide variety of projects and delivering high quality artwork in a fast-paced environment.
● Working on design briefs within an agreed timeline whilst managing & prioritising my own work.
● Use creativity to think outside of the box, whilst also encouraging others to do the same.
Creative Designer
- London, United KingdomFull Time
A Creative Designer position at Classic Fine Foods that incorporated the following:
● Regular use of Adobe Creative Suites and Microsoft Office products.
● The design of the company's annual Cuisine & Pastry catalogues for 2016.
● The design of recipe booklets for our training kitchen events.
● Regular design of social posts for a raft of events, brand/product launches, etc. These are then scheduled with the use of Hootsuite.
● Regular design of content for TTL events, ranging from name tags and menus up to recipe booklets.
● Regular contact with suppliers & printers for quotes and the ordering of supplies and regular print jobs.
● Redesigning of stationery implements, including business cards and compliment slips.
● Control of the company social media accounts. Facebook and Twitter for the Classic Fine Foods brand, and Instagram for TheTasteLab brand (our teaching kitchen). This involves the coverage of events with our partner brands, to events arranged by our Midlands office.
● Social media coverage of training and demonstration events from our training kitchen. This ranges from pre-arranged tweets to on the spot social posts.
● Regular use of Mailchimp and Microsoft Outlook when emailing for marketing activities. This ranges from reminder emails about events in our teaching kitchen to quarterly newsletters.
● Regularly updating our Mailchimp database of clients from Excel spreadsheets, provided to me by our Sales department.
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Skills
- Adobe Indesign/illustrator/photoshop
- Layout
- Illustration
- 12. Microsoft Office
- Cms
- Marketing; Email Marketing
- Mailchimp Experience
Education
BA (hons.) Graphic Design
- Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Awards
In-Book Award 2009 for the PJ Smoothies briefD&AD
The brief was to create an outdoor poster campaign that makes the PJ's brand appealing, accessible & trendy. I achieved this through use of my own illustrative style, which I then vectored to give it its bold and colourful appearance.
Check out the finished result here:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/1971185/PJ-Smoothies-Brief