About me

My name is Nana and I am a Finnish Graphic Designer & Illustrator currently venturing in The Netherlands. As a Freelancer Designer I am specialised creating vibrant visual stories to help companies and entrepreneurs to share their message to the world and look amazing while doing so.

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Projects

• 2

  Hornbill - Illustration and Pattern Design
• Business Card Design - Naksu DesignAs a business card is every designers most memorable handshake, I wanted to created design for my own company Naksu Design, that represents my business as well as it reflects on my personality. Being always a little playful, keeping my inner child alive, I designed this card with fun typography elements that are floating around like a creative mind. Also adding gold foiling to the final print to give the design a twist and to show that I mean business and not only play. Paper has a high qual
• Logo Design - Talida Piano StudioLogo design made for Amsterdam based Pianist and Piano teacher Talida Piano Studio. Client request was to have a logo that represents her profession, and keeping it minimal and timeless. I created multiple versions of this logo, using elements inspired by Piano keys, but idea was too keep it abstract enough avoiding making it too cliche. Piano key logo would be combined with the wordmark. Since logo would be mainly used in her website it played an important role designing the its final form. A
• Cool Bird - CollateralFlying rat? Nooo, just a bird with a swag. Be a cool bird!
• Email Newsletter BannersDesigns made for Lytho email header banners. By honouring brand guideline with Lytho design elements, I created a multiple designs that marketing team can choose from and use in weekly email campaigns.
• Cotton Cloud - Beer label designThis passion project was powered by imagination and the love for a good Craft Beer. I enjoy good special beers and often they have unique and fun labels, that allows creativity to run wild. I wanted to join the fun and created this label. Concept was to express the playfulness, mainly the feeling what you get after good and strong special beer, the first moments feels like you are walking, no floating, on a soft cotton-cloud. I also wanted to create label that sparks joy with its playful colo

Work history

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Senior Visual DesignerLytho
Dec 2020Amsterdam, NetherlandsPart Time
In-house Graphic Designer for a Lytho Software company. Main tasks among many others: All around designer creating digital collateral for campaigns, ads and other marketing material. Helping development team to create Gifs and UI assets for the product pages and for the Lytho platform.
Graphic Designer and Production CoordinatorESOMAR
Sep 2019 - Dec 2020Amsterdam, NetherlandsFull Time
In-house Graphic Designer and Production Coordinator. Main tasks, among many others were: Digital Marketing Collateral for social media campaigns such as Banners, Ads, Email Headers. Editorial Design for various big and small Industry Reports (printed and digital), Events Branding (webinars and on-site) Identity Branding for multiple projects.

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Skills

• Graphic Design
• Logo Design
• Illustration
• Digital Deisgner
• Social Advertising
• Banner Advertising
• Print
• Campaign Design
• Identity Design
• Brand Identity

Education

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Bachelor of Arts (BA) Willem de Kooning Academy
Aug 2013 - Aug 2017Rotterdam, Netherlands
Major in Graphic Design and Minor in Sustainability