I am a creative designer and photographer with over 15 years experience in design for web, mobile, email, social and photographing architecture, travel, portraits, events, concerts and sports.
Areas I have experience in:
User Interface design, Email marketing - design & dev, Retouching photos, Basic UX lifecycle, Branding identity, Illustration, Front end development, Email development, Evites and printable invites, UI mock ups, Producing designs for multi channel - web, email and social, Design systems - basic level, Examining and simplifying the user flow, Sketching, Photography and Videography.
Applications I'm familiar with:
Adobe Creative Cloud (photoshop, illustrator, indesign, acrobat pro, lightroom, premiere pro & rush, basic after effects knowledge), Sketch, Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Google Business, Google Analytics, Google Web Designer, Zendesk, Trello.
I keep up with industry news via social media, online tutorials, conferences, exhibitions, talks and training courses.
I would consider myself:
team player, like a sponge taking in knowledge from those leading, inquisitive, good communicator, organised, methodical, creative and always willing to share knowledge
Projects
- Musical Birthday Biscuit TinA new all-singing all-dancing musical biscuit tin. Previously there was blue and pink versions of the biscuit tin. Who are our users? For those who would like to give a gift of biscuits on their birthday. And to add a little joy with a jingle. Roles and responsibilities The creative agency worked with our director, design product manager and buyer to come up with the design of the product. The social media team, the content team, the print designer and I worked together to take that design on
Work history
Digital DesignerFortnum & Mason
London, United KingdomFull Time
• Responsible for the implementation and design of the new website including the homepage, category landing pages, stories homepage, stories templates on the Magento platform.
• UX workflow of the new mutliple address checkout.
• Creation story article templates based on the type of content the content team want to create. Overseeing all design and layout of all content pieces.
• Plan and design of commercial focused and campaign brand pages alongside content and trade teams.
• Creation of digital assets for seasonal, product and brand campaigns for use across the site, emails, affiliate/display banners and social media channels.
• Responsible for Improvements and enhancements on the website which improve customer experience and drive conversion or bookings (alongside the UX Manager).
• Lead design and layout of Food and Drink Award microsites including integration of entry and voting functions.
• Creation of 2 restaurant websites using the Squarespace platform while leading any enhancements needed on them including integration of Sevenrooms reservation system.
• Creation of an email master template for the email team, to use across a wide range of email comms from welcome programme, marketing, triggers to ad hoc and internal comms.
• Retouching (and replacing products) on lifestyle product and general in store photographs.
• Liase with our development agency to ensure that any online backend development work is on brand and works from a UX point of view.
• Various ad hoc tasks like creating evites, look books, in house online and offline newspaper, mood board.
• Photographing and editing lifestyle product shots in and around the store for the website, email, signage and social channels.
• Photographing and videoing the occasional event, product or staff member for internal communications, website and social media.
PhotographerBimal Tailor Photography
London, United KingdomFreelance
- Portrait of Ben Shires, presenter
- Hip hop artist Common at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
- Pianist Ludovico Einaudi at The Barbican, London
- All Points East Music Festival at Victoria Park, London
- Rodrigo y Gabriela at The Roundhouse, London
- Chronixx at Alexandra Palace, London
- White Lies at Subterania, London
- British Summer Time Festival, Hyde Park, London
- Angie Stone at The Roundhouse, London
- Review of Arcade Fire concert at SSE Arena, Wembley, London
- Anderson . Paak (and Dr. Dre) at O2 Brixton Academy, London
- Review and photos of Clean Bandit at Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
- John Legend at The O2, London
- Esquire Party at Fortnum & Mason
- St Mary’s Cathedral, Tokyo, Japan
- Switch House, Tate Modern Extension, London
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Skills
- Digital Expertise
- Content Creative
- Coding Emails
- Design
- Photography
- Adobe Photoshop/indesign/illustrator
- Social Design
- Brand Design
Education
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2.2 BSc (Hons) Computer Information Systems DesignKingston University
- Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom