Darcy Lamptey

Darcy Lamptey

Graphic DesignerPortsmouth, United Kingdom
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Darcy Lamptey

Darcy Lamptey

Graphic DesignerPortsmouth, United Kingdom
Projects
  • The Oxford Times
    The Oxford TimesProblem: A unappreciated, unbranded website that needed to have a new lease of life. A content heavy website that need to have a better thought process as to it’s audience and a better user experience. Solution: Re-brand The Oxford Times website to give it more personality and find a simpler design solution. A re-design for Oxford Times. By making the site responsive, cleaner and more modern, Oxford Times has a better user experience, with simple use of colour.
  • Grey Goo Magazine
    Grey Goo MagazineProblem: SCI FI magazines seem to not represent what they are; futuristic and creative. They seem to duplicate other similarities as other magazines Solution: Create a magazine that I am passionate about and make it feel unique and special. Grey Goo© is a SCI FI magazine representing all aspects of the fictional world. Featuring films, TV and video games, Grey Goo© brings a unique element to the SCI FI magazine industry.
  • ATypI
    ATypIProblem: A text heavy conference handbook that involved large amounts of editorial, including timetables, prelims, short text and no branding. Solution: Create a handbook that was easy to navigate whilst at the conference as well as come up with a memorable brand for the conference. The brand had to symbolise the event title ‘OBLIQUE’ with subtle branding throughout the handbook. There had to be consideration as to printing materials and to which was achievable through real production.
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Work history
    Graphic Designer
    Working along side the Marketing manager to ensure that branding and the presence of three brands (Baumatic, Hoover & Candy) were to a high standard within the Built-in appliance industry. Responsibilities: • Updating & maintaining the three brands of the Hoover Candy Group. • Designing and artworking brochures and collateral for campaigns. • Maintaining high quality photography and photo-manipulation imagery.
    Junior Graphic Designer
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    Working within a team of two for the multi-million pound education company. Key responsibilities were given to myself in the re-brand for the company and rethinking the way QA as a brand are presented within the industry. Responsibilities: • Re-branding for the company and communicating ideas to enhancing QA (released in March). • Designing landing pages, web banners & websites. • Discussing innovative ideas to the campaign managers and ensuring it is possible. • Internal branding to enhancing QA’s head office; to ensure that staff feel ‘QA’d’. • Dealing with campaigns and ensuring that it is the best campaign it can be.
Skills
  • Packaging
  • Advertising
  • Branding
  • Corporate Identity
  • Print Design
  • Websites
  • Typography
  • Design
  • Logo Design
  • Illustrator
  • Indesign
  • Photoshop
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Photoshop Acrobat
Education
    Typography Graphic Communication
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    Graphic Communication