Experienced in design and artwork within a Creative Studio environment. For the majority of my career I have worked closely with Art Directors and other Designers working on a varied range of Healthcare projects for many of the best known Pharma companies in Europe. I have also worked in signage and on print projects for clients such a Papa John’s, Panasonic, Comet and Bosch among others.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
Experience of Apple Mac and PC versions of InDesign, QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
SOFT SKILLS:
- Strong inter-personal skills, supporting face-to-face client contact.
- A good listener with tact, patience and diplomacy.
- Comfortable with achieving deadlines in a busy working environment.
- I have a good sense of humour.
Projects
- Miss IkigaiI was asked by a founder of the Miss Ikigai brand to create a logo and branding prior to to launch. Ikigai (生き甲斐, pronounced [ikiɡai]) is a Japanese concept that means "a reason for being." The word "ikigai" is usually used to indicate the source of value in one's life or the things that make one's life worthwhile.The word translated to English roughly means "thing that you live for" or "the reason for which you wake up in the morning." Each individual's ikigai is personal to them and specific
- Secret 7" entry: Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should Have Come OverSecret 7" combines music and art for @mindcharity in 2018. Exhibition 8 - 24 June at The Jetty on Greenwich Peninsula. This is one of my entries for 'Lover You Should’ve Come Over by Jeff Buckley. Secret 7” takes 7 tracks from 7 of the best-known musicians around and presses each one 100 times to 7” vinyl. We then invite creatives from around the world to interpret the tracks in their own style for every 7”. 700 unique sleeves are exhibited before going on sale on a first come, first served basis priced at £50 each. You don’t know who created the sleeve, or even which song it’s for, until you have parted with your cash - the secret lies within. Since 2012 we have produced 3,500 one-of-a-kind records for 35 different tracks. We’ve sold every single one and raised over £175,000 for great causes.
- Secret 7" 2018 entry: London Grammar - HelpSecret 7" combines music and art for @mindcharity in 2018. Exhibition 8 - 24 June at The Jetty on Greenwich Peninsula. This is one of my entries for London Grammar's Help. Secret 7” takes 7 tracks from 7 of the best-known musicians around and presses each one 100 times to 7” vinyl. We then invite creatives from around the world to interpret the tracks in their own style for every 7”. 700 unique sleeves are exhibited before going on sale on a first come, first served basis priced at £50 each. You don’t know who created the sleeve, or even which song it’s for, until you have parted with your cash - the secret lies within. Since 2012 we have produced 3,500 one-of-a-kind records for 35 different tracks. We’ve sold every single one and raised over £175,000 for great causes.
- Secret 7" 2018 entry: London Grammar - HelpSecret 7" combines music and art for @mindcharity in 2018. Exhibition 8 - 24 June at The Jetty on Greenwich Peninsula. This is one of my entries for London Grammar's Help. Secret 7” takes 7 tracks from 7 of the best-known musicians around and presses each one 100 times to 7” vinyl. We then invite creatives from around the world to interpret the tracks in their own style for every 7”. 700 unique sleeves are exhibited before going on sale on a first come, first served basis priced at £50 each. You don’t know who created the sleeve, or even which song it’s for, until you have parted with your cash - the secret lies within. Since 2012 we have produced 3,500 one-of-a-kind records for 35 different tracks. We’ve sold every single one and raised over £175,000 for great causes.
- Secret 7" 2018 entry: London Grammar - HelpSecret 7" combines music and art for @mindcharity in 2018. Exhibition 8 - 24 June at The Jetty on Greenwich Peninsula. This is one of my entries for London Grammar's Help. Secret 7” takes 7 tracks from 7 of the best-known musicians around and presses each one 100 times to 7” vinyl. We then invite creatives from around the world to interpret the tracks in their own style for every 7”. 700 unique sleeves are exhibited before going on sale on a first come, first served basis priced at £50 each. You don’t know who created the sleeve, or even which song it’s for, until you have parted with your cash - the secret lies within. Since 2012 we have produced 3,500 one-of-a-kind records for 35 different tracks. We’ve sold every single one and raised over £175,000 for great causes.
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Work history
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Creative Arworker & Graphic DesignerVarious (Contract / Temp roles)
London, United KingdomFreelance
2nd – 4th March 2015
Creative Artworker
Hive Health (Freelance – Giant Group PLC)
The Hive Group, Haymarket House, 1 Oxendon Street, London, SW1Y 4EE
This was short freelance assignment as a Creative Artworker working:
• The layout of 5 documents using InDesign utilising their client’s brand guidelines.
30th July - 8th August, 14th August - 5th September 2014. 28th October -1st November, 8th & 10th, 18th - 19th November 2013
Creative Artworker
Charterhouse Studio at Musgrave Retail Partners GB, Musgrave House, Widewater Place, Moorhall Road, Harefield, Middlesex UB9 6NS
These were freelance contract assignments as a Creative Artworker working within Musgrave’s studio serviced by Charterhouse (Bring ideas to life):
• Producing seasonal leaflets and point of sale for Musgrave Retail brand Budgens and Londis utilising template artwork. These were approved and reviewed by the internal client using ProofHQ.
6th - 16th August 2013
Graphic Designer / Creative Artworker
M-Integrated Solutions PLC (Freelance – Senitor Associates Ltd)
Old Electrical Works, Reynard Mills Business Park, Windmill Road, Little Ealing, London, TW8 9LY
This was a short freelance contract assignment as Creative Artworker/Graphic Designer:
• Creating new concepts and layouts for their clients such as exhibition panels, posters and come concepts for a cover for an on-site restaurant menu.
• Cutting out images and some retouching using Photoshop.
15th - 16th January 2013
Creative Artworker
BrocklebankPenn (Freelance)
5th Floor, 58-60 Berners Street, London, W1T 3NQ
w: www.brocklebankpenn.com
This was a short self-employed freelance assignment as a Creative Artworker:
• Creating new concepts for their client’s LinkedIn banners.
• Amending flowchart process diagrams, brand presentation document and product wraps within brand guidelines.
• The saving of logos as individual layouts (as RGB and CMYK files) for a Toolkit.
• Producing header and footer sections for a FSDU product display as layout within brand guidelines.
ArtworkerGrey Healthcare London
- 7 Tavistock Square, Kings Cross, London WC1H 9BQ, UKFull Time
Grey Healthcare London
Lynton House, 7-12 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9LT
Tel: +44 (0) 203 037 3600
Working as part of their Creative team was employed within the Studio as their sole permanent Artworker:
• Worked closely with Art Directors on a varied range of European and UK Healthcare projects for many of the best known Pharma companies.
• Working with the Creative Team on Pitch concepts and presentation documents.
• Amending of promotional materials supplied by client within brand guidelines.
• Role included mocking-up, general artworking and layout work.
• Liaising with external suppliers such as Image Libraries, printers and briefing retouchers on behalf the Creative Team.
• Responsible for the checking of the majority of artwork before it was supplied to clients / printers as packaged artwork or Print PDFs.
• Responsible for the archiving of all projects on DVD using Disk Tracker and the Archive server.
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Skills
- Branding
- Corporate Identity
- Print Design
- Typography
- Brand Design
- Brand Identity
- Logo Design
- Illustrator
- Indesign
- Photoshop
- Quarkxpress
- Artworking
Education
Guardian Masterclass: Building Websites Using Html, CSS and JavascriptThe Guardian
- Kings Place, 90 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 9GU, UK
Studied at Guardian News and Media Ltd, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU. A course run over four consecutive weeks of comprising of three-hour classes over at their office, with approximately two hours of work to do from home each week. Sessions covered the following:
• What HTML, CSS and JavaScript are, how they relate to one other, and when to use them.
• Building a basic website framework suitable for use across different browsers and devices.
• Customising page design and styling elements and components.
• How JavaScript can be used to enhance webpages accessibly and unobtrusively.
• The basics of setting up hosting for your website.
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BTEC Graphics and Animation on the PassThe University of Westminster
- Watford Road, Northwick Park, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3TP, UK
This was a six week Saturday course which focused the layout and design of websites using Dreamweaver. We also learned to use Flash to create buttons and animated graphics. The aim of this course was to use the skills I had learned, to create a website with Dreamweaver and a banner advert for the site using Flash.
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