Currently working with frog, a creative consultancy, part of Capgemini. Currently doing a six month sustainability secondment.
Recent worked with Quintessentially. Recently traveled to Saudi Arabia for various conservation and creative event art installations in the desert.
Recently completed role as an Event Assistant for a conservation charity, Elephant Family, on the biggest environmental campaign and art installation of the year 2021, CoExistence.
March 2021 - Completed Art Direction for Fashion short course at Central Saint Martins. Awarded top grade.
Recent feature in Nakid Magazine:
https://nakid.online/2020/12/15/celebrating-female-sexuality-a-new-visual-story-by-mae-sass-w-creative-direction-by-lucy-ellen-martin-hannah-hawkesley/
Website:
https://www.lucy-ellen.com/
The Dots Profile:
https://the-dots.com/users/lucy-ellen-martin-259709
Recently featured in the top 5% of Graphic Designers on The Dots platform (June, 2021)
Projects
- CoExistence CampaignWorked as an Event Assistant and Relationship Manager for a conservation charity, Elephant Family and The British Asian Trust, on the biggest environmental campaign and art installation of the year. The campaign is called CoExistence and includes a herd of 125 life size elephant sculptures that migrated their way down the UK, ending their journey in London, through Chelsea and all the Royal Parks.
- Inside my Sisters MindUsing photography, captured by Abbie Douglas, from the subject’s modelling days, this series is an attempt to try and help me and other people understand this particular mind-set and illness. The abstract visualisations created do not show the subject’s darkest times associated with the mental illness but more a focus on her obsessive mind-set and fixation with her body. The allure of the photography distracts the audience from her repetitive disturbing thought process; like the illness it is e
Work history
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Freelance DesignerLucy Ellen
London, United KingdomFreelance
https://www.romeoandjules.studio/
https://www.emilyfitchmiller.com/
https://silverless.co.uk/
Freelance illustrator and designer working with various designers and start-ups. Currently working with Romeo & Jules, a renowned stationary company used by Laura Jackson, Emily Fitch Miller, a successful Art Director for White Company. Boden, WYSE, Next and many others and Silverless, a multidisciplinary design and branding agency based in Marlborough, Wilshire. Successfully used graphic design ability to design publications and illustrate imagery, assisted art direction of photography, liaised with clients and delivered design objectives.
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Production Assistant / InternSaatchi & Saatchi
- London, United KingdomFull Time
Internship in TV production with Saatchi & Saatchi. I acted as a production assistant taking on responsibility outside of my job title, conducting voiceover (VO) and talent searches, running voiceover sessions for national and international talent, managing the finances including budgets and raising POs and updating the weekly decks. It was fast paced, involved extreme multitasking, negotiating deals for high profile talent and music companies on the HSBC Rugby 7s ad and the Direct Line rebrand, demonstrating my proactive nature and work ethic. I was the main liaison successfully working with the Senior Producer, Accounts team, Creatives and senior stakeholders to deliver set design objectives. I was offered a full time role, but due to COVID-19, it has been delayed.
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Skills
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Indesign
- Conceptual Thinking
- Art Direction
- Experimental Design
- Graphic Design
- Photography
- Operational Management
- Event Management
- Logistics Operations
Education
(BA hons) Graphic DesignEdinburgh College of Art
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Graduated with a first class honours degree.
Awarded the Ideas Award 2017.
Runners up for the Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Enterprise (DBACE) 2017. My co-founder and I were awarded a business course and were invited to pitch at the Deutsche Bank Head Office in London, to a panel of judges including the Head of the Design Museum.
Co-founded design agency and commissioned by local primary school to design and create a mural. Reported favourably in the Edinburgh Reporter.
Co-founded and ran a weekly Life Drawing group, The Newdists.
Foundation Diploma in Art and DesignFalmouth University
- Falmouth, United Kingdom
UAL (University of Arts London) course based in Falmouth.
Graduated with Distinction.
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Awards
Ideas Award 2017Edinburgh College of Art
Awarded Ideas Award and granted with funding to bring Mrs & Mrs art direction film and shoot project to life.