Work history
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ArtworkerWowMe! Design
United KingdomFull Time
WowMe! Design is primarily a packaging design agency but also creates other forms of design to support brands. Some of the brands I carry out work for are Wilko, Aldi, Richmond Sausages, Cheestring and Lily O’Brien’s. My responsibilities include:
- Using cutter guides and following brand guidelines to build product artwork.
- Setting up special print finishes, for example UV varnishes, foils and white masks.
- Checking artwork to ensure it is ready to print. This includes ensuring spot or Pantone colours are correct, cutter guides are set up correctly, text has been proofread and photography settings are appropriate.
- Packaging artwork for release.
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Junior Graphic DesignerHybert Design
- United KingdomFull Time
- Multi-disciplinary graphic design work for various clients, including:
Book layout and marketing for Historic England
Marketing for Routledge and Cambridge University Press
Journal and book cover design for McGraw-Hill Education, the IET and ICE Publishing
Packaging design for Avro Pharma
Web design and development for Class Publishing
- Proofreading and preparing documents for print and web purposes.
- Generating prices for jobs to be invoiced.
- File management so that all work and imagery is easily accessible within the company.
- Social media updates and enhancing our online presence.
- Building relationships with clients and gaining their trust through producing effective creative solutions.
- Working for a small company has enabled me to gain a large amount of responsibility early on.
- Networking through events such as The London Book Fair 2015 and 2016. We also designed the exhibition stand and marketing for IPAC at the LBF 2016.
- ‘IPG: My Job and Me’ blog post regarding my design work for publishers.
- Developing my HTML and CSS skills using online courses on Treehouse.
Skills
- Packaging
- Branding
- Print Design
- Typography
- Design
- Marketing
- Research
- Visual Communication
- Web Design
- Illustrator
- Indesign
- Photoshop
- Layout
- Photography
- Branding Identity
- Digital Design
- Artworking
Education
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BA(Hons) Graphic Design and PhotographyKingston University
- Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
- Focussed on communicating concepts visually and memorably through the medium which was most appropriate and effective.
- Presented ideas and projects, both individually and as part of a group, in peer critiques.
- Participated in a live brief for Greenpeace to help raise awareness for endangered animals.
- Shortlisted in the RSA Student Design Awards 2014 for our response to the ‘Innovation in Giving’ brief with Clare Stevenson.
- Dissertation titled ‘The Impact of Technology on the Decline and Revival of the Postcard as a Form of Communication’.
- A trip to Berlin to meet creatives’ in their workspaces, including Eboy, Gestalten, Rob Meek and Research Studio.
- ‘Pilot’ exhibition at Hoxton Gallery, London (2012).
- ‘_ing’ exhibition at Candid Arts Trust, London (2014).
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Foundation Diploma in Art and DesignRichmond Upon Thames College
- Richmond, United Kingdom
- Experimented with different materials and processes which could be used to communicate my ideas.
- Exhibited my final major project ‘The Routine of Life Through Image Manipulation and Transformation’ in the end of year show.
- I regularly visited galleries and museums to gain inspiration from other work.
Awards
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Shortlisted in the RSA Student Design Awards 2014RSA Student Design Awards
- Our submission ‘Charity Versions of Existing Games’ was shortlisted in the ‘Innovation in Giving’ category. Project undertaken with Clare Stevenson.