Em Storey
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Em Storey

DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
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Em Storey
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Em Storey

DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
About me
An ambitious, adaptive, and dynamic designer, passionate about creating insights-based solutions that help clients connect with their users through memorable brand experiences. I’m a strategic thinker with an eye for quality, detail and design craft. I have a background working in agency client services, with over 9 years of experience working in integrated agencies in project and account management positions. This has given me a unique range of skills and breadth of experience, providing a valuable perspective and advantage as a designer. My experience includes: • Interrogating and deconstructing a brief to get under the skin of a clients’ needs and business objectives. • Working across the entire design life cycle, from research, concept generation and development, to delivery of final artwork and assets. • Communicating visual design concepts through various approaches, such as mood boards, sketches, screen designs and interactive prototypes. • Explaining, discussing, and justifying my design decisions effectively to both clients, teammates and senior creatives. • Collaborating effectively with cross-functional team members to bring integrated value to clients. • Working efficiently to tight deadlines and managing multiple workstreams. • Delivering imaginative and intelligent solutions with commercial impact. Projects have included: Responsive website and web-app design, visual identities and sub-brands, bids and tender design, design for print, events, campaigns and social media.
Projects
  • House No.8 | Logo Design
    House No.8 | Logo DesignLogo design for House No.8 London, an independent luxury brand making beautifully crafted accessories.
  • Lets Talks | Postnatal Wellness Campaign
    Lets Talks | Postnatal Wellness CampaignStudent project. Campaign design for charities APP and NCT, to raise awareness of post-natal illness.
  • Blurred Lines | Event brand
    Blurred Lines | Event brandStudent project. Event branding, brochure design and environmental graphics for AI themed Barbican lecture series.
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Work history
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    Mid-weight DesignerNU Creative
     - London, United KingdomFull Time
    Designer producing graphic design and visual communications for a wide range of projects and media. Working with clients across the professional services, property and medical-comms sectors. Projects have included: responsive website design, visual identities and sub-brands, bids and tender design, design for print, campaigns and social media. Experience includes: • Involvement in the end-to-end design process from initial briefing, research, conceptual moodboarding, concept generation, and presentation and development of concepts through to delivery of final assets. • Communicating visual design concepts through various approaches, such as mood boards, sketches, screen designs and interactive prototypes. • Explaining, discussing, and justifying my design decisions effectively to both teammates and clients. • Forming wireframes, user flows and low and high-fidelity prototypes, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to take a project through to launch. • Establishing and managing design toolkits and UI component libraries. • Working within client brand guidelines and design systems. • Creating and managing highly structured and organised design files. • Collaborating closely with teammates, as well as taking ownership of my own projects. • Working efficiently to tight deadlines and managing multiple workstreams.
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    Senior Project ManagerCog Design
     - London, United KingdomFreelance
    Managing and delivering digital projects for a number of key clients, primarily within the arts and culture sectors. These included: The English National Ballet, RichMix, South London Gallery, The Marlowe Theatre. Responsibilities included:
 • Attentive client relationship management through all stages of project delivery. • Management and oversight of technical teams, managing multiple work streams to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in line with client expectation. • Leading studio briefings with the creative team, with a clear sight of client and agency objectives.
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Skills
  • Digital Production
  • Brand Communications
  • Brand Creation
  • Creative Approach
  • Problem Solving
  • Graphic Design
  • Idea Generation
  • Print Design
  • People Focused
  • Detail Orientated
Education
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    Graphic DesignShillington College, London
     - London, United Kingdom
    An intensive, immersive, industry-led design programme. During which I responded to over 30 project briefs, following an agency standard briefing process to ensure client requirements, project objectives and tight deadlines were met. The course curriculum included: • Utilising design thinking techniques to develop creative design outcomes, prototype, test, evaluate and implement designs. • Concepting, executing and delivering designs for branding, editorial, packaging, campaign, UX, digital design briefs. • Implementing research methods, competitor analysis, persona development and mood-boarding to deliver creative projects. • Training in industry-standard software - Abobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Sketch.
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    MA Graphic DesignCoventry School of Art and Design
     - Coventry, United Kingdom
    This course gave me practical experience of a wide range of professional aspects of graphic design, via mock and live client briefs and business planning. This also included a variety of experimental, reflective and practical modules.