I am an award-winning designer with considerable editorial design experience both in the UK and Australia. I have worked in almost every strand of consumer and trade publishing, producing excellent and relevant content for all market and reader types. I bring an abundance of visual and editorial ideas along with design flair and discipline.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
■ Leadership & Interpersonal Skills
■ Layout & Design
■ Art Direction
■ Photo Direction
■ Content Solutions
■ Brand Design Extension & Development
■ Project Management
■ Print & Digital Quality Control
■ Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Adobe XD) / Acrobat / Woodwing, Figma
UX Design Skills:
• UX Research Methodologies
• Research Analysis
• User Interaction Design
• Prototyping
• Wireframing
Work history
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Art Editor - Computeractive magazineDennis Publishing
London, United KingdomFull Time
■ Experienced and dedicated Art Editor with a proven track record of increasing sales and creating excellent content in tough market conditions.
■ Relaunched "Computeractive" to attract new readers, with great success.
■ Victorious in designing its biggest selling issue in its 22-year history.
■ Established and increased new revenue streams through advertorials, Back Issue CDs and software sales.
■ Contributed to "Computeractive’s" news stand increase in 2015 - up 4%. It was the third successive news stand increase since I became Art Editor, reversing years of decline. "Computeractive" remains the UK’s best-selling technology magazine, by far.
■ On joining the magazine, successfully introduced and managed a new workflow system, to increase productivity throughout the production cycle.
■ Responsible for managing the art department and freelancers.
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Art Editor - Total 911 (Porsche) & Android magazinesImagine Publishing
- Bournemouth, United KingdomFull Time
■ Promoted to Art Editor on "Android" magazine after a successful period of art direction across "Total 911". My success included a high turn around of commissioning and art directing excellent Porsche photo-shoots which all achieved the desired outcomes.
■ Successfully refreshed the look and feel of "Android", which led to a positive repositioning within the technology market.
■ Art editing as the only designer responsible for all pages and production.
■ Extensive art direction involving generating ideas, commissioning, art directing product/ car photo-shoots, overseeing the work of photographers, carrying out all repro, production and PDF checks.
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Skills
- Print Design
- Degree
- Graphic Design
- Publishing Design
- Art Directing
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Indesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Digital Design
Awards
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PPA Customer Direct Magazine Of The Year - Computeractive magazine (shortlisted)PPA Awards
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EMAP New Designer Of The Year - TRAIL magazineEmap / Bauer
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