Heather Shears
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Heather Shears

Illustrator/Designer & Personal AssistantLondon, United Kingdom
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Heather Shears

Illustrator/Designer & Personal AssistantLondon, United Kingdom
About me
I am a freelance Illustrator and Designer based in London, UK. I’m highly versatile and have experience creating attention-grabbing digital, print work, brand design and hand painted murals for start ups and established companies such as The BBC, and The Open University. If you need a freelance Illustrator/ Designer for a project or require help in building your brand, then get in touch. I look forward to coming up with something fabulous for you.
Projects
  • ILLUSTRATION
    ILLUSTRATIONA collection of Illustrations created with the iPad pro.
  • Bill's Bar
    Bill's BarBill’s bar was a total renovation of a nightclub based in Oakham, Rutland. I worked closely together with Smart Interior Contractors to create an amazing and unique space. Beginning with the initial concept from ideas generated by the client’s own mood boards right through to the incredible 7 finished designs.
  • Freelance Illustrator
    Freelance IllustratorAn online comic Illustration commissioned by the Open University Milton keynes, for the Brian Cox 2017 BBC Show 'The 21st Century race for Space' A fun engaging comic to encourage new students to open learning. Links: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/astronomy/how-space-exploration-has-given-us-better-weather-predictions http://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/astronomy/what-happens-the-human-body-space?in_menu=570377
  • B STYLED MURAL DESIGN
    B STYLED MURAL DESIGNB STYLED is top stylist Barrie Stephens boutique hair and beauty salon based in Leicester. His other salons have a classic sleek look but Barrie wanted to set his B STYLED salon apart from the rest. I created edgy feminine 1920's inspired designs to line the mirrors and walls and made a hand painted dear skull plaque to finish off the desired boutique look. Once we completed the basement designs, Barrie insisted we continue the artwork upstairs into the sleek hair salon. Haus of Heather came
  • The UniBox
    The UniBoxThe UniBox is a health and wellbeing student subscription Box. Unibox came to me to help freshen up the brand and give it an edge. I have redesigned the website, including bespoke illustrations and created unique marketing material and products for the boxes. www.theunibox.com.
  • Creative Direction and Brand Building
    Creative Direction and Brand BuildingI was commissioned by the cookie dough start up Naked Dough to complete a mural design for their first pop up store in Old Street Station London. The brand was in it’s infancy and with the success of the mural I continued to build the brand, completing designs and creative directing for 5 more pop ups appearing in Westfield London, Intu Lakeside, Top Shop Oxford Circus, Taste London, Camden Lock Market and I worked closely with Electric Ray to design the kitchen space for Naked Doughs feature on
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Work history
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    Freelance IllustratorThe UniBox
     - London, United KingdomFreelance
    I was commissioned by the Unibox to create Illustrations and design layouts for the website, designed products for the monthly boxes and designed the September Zine.
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    Creative Direction/ Brand BuildingNAKED DOUGH
     - London, United KingdomFreelance
    I was commissioned by the cookie dough start up Naked Dough to complete a mural design for their first pop up store in Old Street Station London. The brand was in it’s infancy and with the success of the mural I continued to build the brand, completing designs and creative directing for 5 more pop-ups appearing in Westfield London, Intu Lakeside, Top Shop Oxford Circus, Taste London, Camden Lock Market and I worked closely with Electric Ray to design the kitchen space for Naked Doughs feature on the BBC 2 Million Pound Menu 2018. I was responsibly for creating and art working all marketing material, website design, packaging label design, social media content, food photography, Kiosk POS, large format printing, merchandise, menus and complete brand direction. This was a very varied project in which I had other responsibilities that included; Communicating ideas with kiosk designer. Constant meetings with all operations managers at all of the above listed sites, designing graphics and ordering materials adhering to each individual property spec. Liaised with contractors, site managers and the film production company Booked external contractors, creatively directing every aspect of builds. Problem solving Organising continual maintenance of all kiosks Researched packaging companies, created relationships with suppliers, ordered and designed all labels for packaging within extremely tight deadlines and budgets. Continually working with the social media manager creating all visual content; food photography, graphics, illustrations, giffs, press releases and ideas for promotion of the brand. Built the website and rolled out the online shop, created all artwork for merchandising. www.naked-dough.co.uk
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Skills
  • Illustration
  • Digital Design
  • Editorial Illustration
  • Digital Illustration
  • Label Design
  • Branding Design
  • Mural Design
  • Photo Retouching
Education
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    (BA) IllustrationThe University of Brighton
    Brighton, United Kingdom