Work history
Middle Weight Graphic Designer
Responsibilities:
- Create all in-house design work including:
- Flyers
- E-mailers
- Website content such as flash slides and icons
- Brochures
- Leaflets
- Packaging for new and old products
- Magazine Adverts
- Proofing artwork
- Create all brochures, from small 56 page brochures to the large 240 page catalogue for the company, from
starting design to development to final production.
- Manage printing quotes for all artwork, specifically the brochures. I gather all quotes and then liaise and follow the processes closely with the printers with constant communication on the phone, e-mails, checking wet proofs, checking the colour and choosing paper weights and types.
- Product design - I have created a large amount of product design for the company, from growing current collections to idea development for new collections. I create these using Photoshop manipulation and sketching. Some big stockists I have done some product design for is John Lewis and the Savoy London Hotel.
- Help out our customer service team by answering the phone when needed, to advise and help customers
to the best of my ability.
- Manage photo shoots, creating shoot lists, helping set up, discussing what we need for the final outcome.
- Manage our new junior designer who has recently joined our team on a half time basis. Making sure work is distributed evenly and to motivate and to help whenever needed.
- Liaise with trade customers to provide them with any imagery they need.
- Create presentations for trade customers to display our new collections and ideas we have for the future.
- Manage several projects at once, organising and completing deadlines on time.
- Create 3-D mock up's to display ideas and concepts in a physical manner to help develop the project.
- Create specification sheets for new products, liaise with manufactures and colleagues to gather the appropriate information and display it so it can be easily read, accessed and followed.
Skills
- Advertising
- Visual Arts
- Print Design
- Design
- Excel
- Illustrator
- Indesign
- Photoshop
- Powerpoint
- Word
- Print Digital