Holly Small

Holly Small

DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
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Holly Small

Holly Small

DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
About me
I am a designer looking for new opportunities. A fast practical learner, skilled in UX and UI design, layout design and illustration. Keen to work within a collaborative design team to uncover new challenges and expand my knowledge.
Projects
  • A small suggestion manifesto
    A small suggestion manifestoFrom a poster to a concertina folded mini publication, this book is my 20 suggestions for creatives to live by both professionally and personally. The book is designed to be pocket sized for easy transport and access, with the suggestions and artwork on one side and an enlarged page in the form of a poster on the back. The collection is limited to 20 prints for 20 suggestions with a unique poster on the reverse of each, 10 books are contained in orange book bands and 10 are in blue, this was d
  • Dissertation publication
    Dissertation publicationThis publication was designed to match the theme of my dissertation, this explored the effects the internet has had on society and culture online and offline, and how both forms of existence have blurred the line between real and unreal, more specifically on how we view beauty and what makes someone beautiful. This dissertation also questioned how we can base said beauty on unattainable standards that have been brought about with filters and other special effects that disguises a person’s appear
  • Chalk
    ChalkThis 58 second, educational stop motion film is about chalk and how this tool was used to not only educate in schools, but was the tool that lead to important and revolutionary inventions. For this project we were given a single object and had to visually display an interesting fact about our given object in a short film. Working with designers Hannah Brady, Joe Moreno and illustrator Saffron Ardern Sodje we conceived a concept based on the fact that chalk was a tool used in schools to displa
  • Wittsittinge
    WittsittingeWittsittinge is a forgotten word that means opposition/resistance. ​ Designers Emma Clarke, George Harrild and I tried to show the meaning of this word within a10 second time limited film, however has now been extended to 22 seconds now that this edit is not restrained to a university tutors brief. For our film, Clarke, Harrild and I could only use the letters in the word given to create the visuals to make our film. Our concept, was based off a silly joke of the rule that I is always before
  • Fur for animals
    Fur for animalsA stop motion film inspired by a D&AD brief on animal cruelty in the fur industry. This 1 minute and 13 second stop motion covers the topic of the killing techniques used within the industry to 'preserve the quality of fur'. ​The brief was from the organisation Fur for Animals, who challenged creatives to produce a piece (or pieces) of online shareable content, at the heart of which is awareness of and for followers of their cause to save animals and stop cruelty. ​ After researching past campa
  • Unrest – #studentletterpressworkers2018
    Unrest – #studentletterpressworkers2018Unrest is collaborative project that brought students from BCU, Kingston, CSM, Plymouth and east anglia together for 3 days of letterpress printing. Hosted by Naomi Kent, the printmaking technician at Birmingham city university. Kent organised not only letterpress printing, but a typesetting challenge and the initial brief for 'Unrest' where each student had to design a piece of work around this theme. The work was designed to be 180mm x 210mm with a 3mm bleed, all the work was collected on d
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Work history
    Furthermore logo
    Furthermore logo
    Junior DesignerFurthermore
    London, United KingdomFull Time
    Responsibilities - Designed low – high fidelity wireframes in Sketch and Figma, for both desktop and mobile - Designed UI and UX components - Designed imagery for use on social media, web and internal channels - Scoped, defined, and prioritised design requirements with clients - Conducted brand research and developed design ideas through client workshops - Utilised Google Analytics to gain insight and direct design decisions - Created copy for case studies, social media and client projects - Applied UX and Service Design theory methodologies to practical projects. For example, during and after workshops empathy maps, user/customer journeys, assumption maps, personas, affinity mapping and more were used to gain key insights and progress a project - Organised information across internal digital platforms - Helped run BIMA Digital Day 2021 at Eltham Hill School for children aged 11-16 years old, to give them an insight into the world of digital careers Skills - Google Suite - Google Analytics - Sketch with plugins Cluse & Craft - Figma - Website Development (Squarespace & Wix) - Chrome Inspect tool - InVision - Miro
    Prolifica Management logo
    Prolifica Management logo
    InternProlifica Management
     - London, United KingdomFull Time
    - Designed animated and static social assets for sites such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter for each client. Also created banners for these sites - Created newsletters - Edited landscape video content to work vertically for social media posting - Used Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects to edit audio and film footage by creating transitions, applying effects I had composed myself and adding subtitles among other editing tasks. I was also creating animations to promote events/tours and ‘merch’ that is new or on sale - Used Adobe Photoshop and InDesign to create digital and printed media. I had to look at and work to specific document set ups and printer requirements - Mocked up and proposed ‘merch’ for clients - Worked directly with clients such as You Me At Six, Maximo Park, Circa Waves and Two Door Cinema Club
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Skills
  • Graphic Design
  • Illustration
  • Stop Motion
  • Photography
  • Textile art
  • Poetry
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Microsoft Offic
  • Print Design
  • Screen Printing
Education
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    BA (Hons) Graphic DesignKingston School of Art & Design
     - Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
    Studied for three years at Kingston school of art. And I graduated with an Upper Second Class Degree in 2018.
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    A LevelsCharles Darwin School 6th Form
     - Biggin Hill, United Kingdom
    Studied three A Levels – Art, Photography and Textiles where I achieved a C in Art, B in Photography and B in Textiles.
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Awards
    Creative Conscience logo
    Creative Conscience logo
    Creative Conscience – Commended & ShortlistedCreative Conscience
    The projects shown made it through to the final round of judging where experts from the industry decided what projects should receive awards. Whilst these projects didn’t receive an award, Creative Conscience showcases them to give the projects the recognition they deserve. https://www.creativeconscience.org.uk/shortlisted-entries/
    Creative Conscience logo
    Creative Conscience logo
    Creative Conscience – Shortlisted Entries ArchiveCreative Conscience
    The projects shown made it through to the final round of judging where experts from the industry decided what projects should receive awards. Whilst these projects didn’t receive an award, Creative Conscience showcases them to give the projects the recognition they deserve. https://www.creativeconscience.org.uk/shortlisted-entries/
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