A highly skilled graphic designer, artworker and illustrator with over 5 years experience designing products for globally recognised brands. A strong creative thinker, I collaborate with all my clients to successfully deliver innovative design. I enjoy exploring new creative processes for a wide range of multi-disciplinary media including packaging, branding, illustration, surface pattern, lettering and more.
Work history
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Graphic Designer, Artworker, IllustratorSelf Employed
Bristol, United KingdomFreelance
I run a successful full-time business, receiving a range of packaging, illustration, and graphic design commissions, working with start up brands and commercial agencies alike.
I enjoy a long term working relationship with a leading international client in the greetings and gift packaging industry. I played a key role in winning major new contracts for this client: generating design concepts and developing them into on-trend, best selling products.
Recently I completed a large packaging contract with Damien Hirst’s studio, recreating archive artworks from the 1980’s for an upcoming retrospective exhibition, and am currently working on a complete branding and packaging design project for a start up brewery which is about to go into production.
I routinely work with my clients at every stage of the creation of a new product, from trend research, to concept development, to design and development and then artworking for production.
Skills:
- Client communication and collaboration
- Concept exploration and creative thinking
- Adobe CC for design and development
- Detailed finalisation for print production
- Successful brand interpretation and development
- Self organisation of time, assets and finances
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licensing designerWoodmansterne Publications Ltd
- Watford, United KingdomFull Time
As the sole designer for the companies’ licensed accounts, my responsibilities included developing large ranges of commercial greetings products for brands such as the National Trust, Dreamworks and other household names. I routinely liaised with each brand’s in-house design team to ensure my products maintained brand continuity and were still crafted to be creatively fresh with each new range.
The company’s products were printed on-site and so I developed artworking expertise for the various print processes and finishes required to take my designs to production.
Skills:
- Maintaining brand standards and continuity
- Adobe CC for design and development
- Artworking layout for print production
- Market research and brand awareness
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Skills
- Drawing
- Design
- Artworking
- Adobe Photoshop Illustrator Indesign
- Packaging Design
- Brand Assets
- Brand Consistency
- Brand Creation
- Watercolour Illustration
- Hand Lettering
- Typography
- Collaboration
- Client Communication
- Creative Thinking
- Print Media
- Self Starter
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
Education
BA(Hons) Printed Textiles and Suface Pattern DesignLeeds Arts University
- Leeds, United Kingdom
Surface Pattern Design and Illustration for Fashion Fabrics and Interior Wallpapers, including Digital Design and Traditional Printmaking.
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Foundation Diploma in Art and DesignBucks New University
- High Wycombe, United Kingdom
Art Foundation Specialising in Textile Design