About me
Contemporary jewellery graduate, currently working in creative retail.
Projects
- BRUTEGRADUATE JEWELLERY COLLECTION// Brutalist architecture was the starting point for this collection. These unusually shaped block homes were once dismissed as ugly and named ‘intimidating slabs of concrete’. The key colour palette of grey and green came from the barbican conservatory and its grey concrete uptopian landscape and contrasting green plant life and shrubbery. These pieces aim to change people’s perceptions of ‘industrial’ elements and make them more playful and fun through the applica
Work history
Visual Co-ordinator
- Full Time
3D Displays/Graphics/Project Manager/Retail Design
- Co-Ordinating production and installation of creative retail schemes.
- Sourcing props, materials, products and services.
- Personally creating fake floral arrangements for recent Phillip Lim 'Stop and Smell the Flowers' window scheme.
- Liaising with high end clients regarding upcoming visual merchandising & graphics installations.
- Site surveys.
- Adobe software for proposals and design.
Studio Intern
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- Sourcing materials, new suppliers and laser cutting companies at the best price.
- Production of orders.
- Adjusting illustrator files before being sent to the laser cutter.
- Purchasing materials from Hatton garden and a selection of other suppliers.
- Packaging orders and arranging deliveries and pick ups through courier companies.
- Completing and organising tax receipts and placing information in Excel documents to be sent to the accountant.
- Delivering press samples to magazines.
- Organisation of christmas shopping event in Camden.
- Manganing contact database.
- Finding new studio for company.
- Cleaning, polishing and organisation of stock.
- Assisting on various collaborative projects with architects, lighting designers, airplane companies.
- Social Media
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Skills
- Fashion
- Visual Arts
- Design
- Creative Direction
- Excel
- Illustrator
- Indesign
- Photoshop
- Powerpoint
- Visual Merchandising
- Display
- Illiustration
- Object Design
- Window Displays
- Jewellery Design Making
Education
BA Jewellery
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- Experimental sample making.
- Learning of a wide range of making processes (casting, ceramics, silversmithing)
- Workshops and masterclasses with professionals.
- Powerpoint presentations of projects to whole group.
- Creation and printing of portfolios.
- Organisation and management of exhibitions and pop-up shop.
- Designing booklet for graduate shows on InDesign.
- Creating and designing displays.
- Organisation and set up of work for assessment.
- Personal reviews and evaluations of projects.
- Costing and pricing work.
- Selling and packaging to the public.
- Creating posters and business cards on Photoshop/In Design.
- Life drawing workshops.
- Two and three dimensional design.
- Researching for projects from a wide variety of sources.
- Visiting exhibitions and museums within contemporary art & design.
Foundation Studies Design
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- Learning of new processes and materials.
- Two and three dimensional design.
- Production of portfolio and sketchbooks.
- Completion of drawing award.
- Setting up successful exhibition.
- Establishing creative skills before moving onto higher education.