Charlet Husthwaite

Charlet Husthwaite

Graphic & Digital DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
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Charlet Husthwaite

Charlet Husthwaite

Graphic & Digital DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Eager to learn, make and create, I am a highly motivated and passionate Graphic Design degree graduate, looking for full-time work within the creative sector. I specialise in visual research and design layouts showcasing my mixed media collage-based designs.
Projects
  • Penguin Awards: Animal Farm
    Penguin Awards: Animal FarmPenguin Student Design Award 2017: Adult Fiction Cover Award - George Orwell's Animal Farm ​The judges were looking for a striking, well executed design with an imaginative concept for the market. My design style includes mainly collage techniques and this element was explored further through the Penguin brief. I feel that I can always express my concept ideas best through the use of collaging, and created cover designs different to any other submitted for Animal Farm cover competition.  ​Instea
  • Merder: The Death of Christmas
    Merder: The Death of ChristmasTo explore the brief, I chose to play with the calendar month; December: 'Merder: The Death of Christmas'. Merder is a retrospective approach to December, which is portrayed as being one of the most happiest months of the year, celebrating Christmas and New Years. My inspiration came from real-life tragedy stories which have occurred during the month December. Collaged mixed-media approaches have been explored alongside digital software techniques, bleach and ink and most importantly; 3D letterp
  • Home: The Land of Dreams
    Home: The Land of Dreams'Home: The Land of Dreams', is a visual and typographic book with bizarre dreams and nightmare elements, collected from a small group of individuals. A professional printed collage style pillowcase has been created alongside the book. I chose to be extremely literal with the concept of dreams as well as home by designing this pillowcase
Work history
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    Graphic DesignerSigns of the Times
     - Sidcup, United KingdomFull Time
    Sign of the Time's Graphic Designer; creating artwork designs for clients specific needs. My day to day activities would include; dealing with telephone/ email enquires, as well as reporting to the directing manager. After creating artworks for clients; they would be emailed back to them for approval, then the final outworks would be set up for printing for the required format. The material would then be applied to: vehicles, shop signages etc.
Skills
  • Collage Art
  • Mixed Media
  • Abobe Creative Suite
  • Digital Print
  • Social Media
  • Technology
Education
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    (BA hons) Graphic DesignUniversity of Greenwich
    London, United Kingdom
    Graphic and Digital Design student studying at Greenwich University, London. Currently in final year of a three-year Bachelor Honour's Degree, experiencing both practical and theoretical areas of Digital Design. [Areas of interest]: - Junior Designer | (Fashion) Magazine: Editorial - Junior Designer | (Packaging) Design for Music [Skills]: Practical and theoretical grasp of intellectual design, creative visualisation and design thinking through professional practice; Understanding of how to reflect the changes and developments in creative industries by adopting current technological trends and needs through multi-disciplinary design processes and methods; Excellent communication skills and creative aesthetics in the areas of graphic and digital design and related fields, such as architecture, fine arts and animation; Experience in interrelated areas of study in typography and graphic design, branding and advertising, fine art and visual communication information and interaction design, photography, data visualisation and moving images; Ability to balance design creativity with contemporary technology and experience in exploring different media