www.emma-wicks.com
Emma Wicks has been creating effective visual communications for her clients for over 20 years. She has provided expertise in design and art direction for brands such as Mitsubishi, Children in Need, KLM Airlines and Mojo Music.
Emma’s understanding of and appreciation for all elements of design and visual communication enables her to successfully deliver creative outcomes that resonate with your audience and help you meet business objectives.
Based in Brighton, UK, Emma works with clients both locally and internationally. Emma enjoys working with all types of clients from independent entrepreneurs, music artists, and publishers to charities and corporate organisations.
Specialisms: Branding and Identity development, Book and magazine design, Art Direction and Concept development.
Clients: Mitsubishi, Save the Children, Rankin, Children in Need, KLM Airlines, Tesco, Glastonbury, Carlton Books, Quintet publishing, Mojo Music, Reel Art Press, We are Futures, Kiva Van coffee, Visage Properties, Orinoco wines, Palazzo, Big Issue, Hemingway Design
Projects
- Classic Rock - Jimi Hendrix Special EditionMagazine Design & Art Direction on a one-off Jimi Hendrix special edition released in tandem with a new retrospective CD. This involved working directly with the late guitarist’s estate and record company, and using bold typography and photographs, reflecting Hendrix’s bold approach to music and image, to create an essential collectors’ edition.
- Neal Preston - for Reel Art PressBook Design & Art Direction on a coffee-table book showcasing the work of Neal Preston, one of the greatest rock photographers of all time. Exhilarated And Exhausted is a complete retrospective of his 40-years-plus career, with a foreword by Neal’s close friend, the renowned writer and film director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous).
- This is Britain - Book And Website Design With IdentityOver an October weekend in 2017 the nation was asked to take pictures which best represented a day in the life of modern Britain for possible inclusion in a new hardback book. The project was a collaboration between online printing service Photobox and Rankin, the British portrait and fashion photographer, with all profits donated to Children in Need.
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Work history
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Art DirectorEmma Wicks
London, United KingdomFull Time
Emma has been self employed working with large and small companies throughout the whole of the UK to produce strong, bold visual communications.
Skills
- Publishing
- Graphic Design
- Art Direction
- Photoshop
- Branding
- Logo Design
- Editorial Design
- Layout Design
- Print Design
- Visual Communication
Education
BA (Hons) Visual Communication (Graphic Design)Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh, United Kingdom