About me
HELLO,
I do understand what you are looking for and I think I match the requirements: real management skills, having a creative eye and breathing for all things artistic, a good ability to communicate my visions, a great ease to adapt quickly to briefs or guidelines, an exceptional trend and art culture knowledge and awareness, a high knowledge of materials and props/display making techniques, without forgetting the commercial and selling aspects that comes with visual retail communication.
Skills
* I can do ( A to Z : Design and Realisation ) :, Printmaking (Screen-Printing, Linocut, Letterpress, Etching, Lithography...), Textile (Weaving on manual & electronic looms, Screen-Printing, Embroidery, Embellishment, Pattern-cutting, Corsetry...), Jewellery Making (Cutting, Piercing, Filing, Soldering, Stone Setting...), Three Dimensional Sketches and Perspective drawings, Oil painting, * I can use :, Very good knowledge of Illustrator, Photoshop, In-Design, Flash, Microsoft Office and WeavePoint (weaving software) on both Mac & PC, Knowledge of HTLM & CSS, * I can :, Don’t mind other people, they are quite fun!, Get better, Be extremely optimistic!
Sector Experience
2011 - Present, Graphic Designer Freelance, London, UK / Brussels, Belgium, Elaborating and Designing identity, branding & independent projects, Designing fonts and typesetting, Working to deadlines and within a budget, Work for Theatre companies, Music Artists, Music events and Shops, 2010 - Present, Pattern and Textile Designer, NobodyCares, Accessories and teddy bears, Brussels, Belgium, Undertaking researches for ideas and inspiration, Producing design concepts, sketches and samples, 2010-2011 ( 8 months ), Window Dresser, Tom’s Deli, Tom Conran Notting Hill, London, UK, Design, making and installation of original concepts for the shop windows, 2010 - 2011 ( 1 year ), Assistant Set Creative Director, Recycl’art, Bar, Club & Art center, Brussels, Belgium, Designs and propositions for both space & communication materials, Branding and furniture customisations, Website updates, Dealing with printshops and promoting screen-printing use, 2010 ( 7 months ), Assistant Set Designer Voluntary work, La Monnaie / De Munt, Royal Opera of Brussels, Belgium, 2009 ( 5 months ), Graphic & Costume Designer for a Theatre Company, Immaturus, student theatre company, Bergen, Norway, Booklet & Posters for an adaptation of Sara Kane’s play 4:48 Psychosis, Designing four costumes / Pattern cutting and costume making, Dyeing all the fabrics and screen-printing / Embroidery works, 2009 ( 5 months ), Art Gallery Assistant/ Graphic Designer Voluntary work, Galleri Fisk, Bergen, Norway, In charge of the communication between the gallery and the exhibitors, Planning the exhibition calendar and choice of the works to exhibit, Designing posters for exhibitions / Updating the website, 2008 ( 7 months ), Textile Designer Internship, Christophe Coppens, textile studio, Brussels, Belgium, 2006 - 2007 ( 9 months ), Graphic Designer Internship, Labomatic, Paris, France, 2006 ( 4 months ), Graphic Designer Internship, Opixido, Paris, France
Awards
2011 - 2012, Printmaking courses, (Linocut, Etching, Dry point, Lithograph...), Morley College, London, UK, 2011, Jewellery course, Morley College, London, UK, 2007-2010, BA (Hons) in Textile Design, (Hand weaving, Screen printing, Knitting and Embroidery...), + Extra weekly Printmaking courses (Etching and Linocut), Académie Royale des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 2009 ( 5 months ), Erasmus Exchange, within the Textile and Graphic Design departments, Kunsthogskolen i Bergen (KHIB), Bergen Art School, Norway, 2005 -2007, BTS (BA equivalent (Hons)) Visual Communication, (Graphic Design and Advertising), School of Art, Craft and Design, ENSAAMA, Olivier de Serres Paris, France, 2005, Art and Design Baccalauréat (A level equivalent), Passed with merit, Lycée René Descartes, Cournon d’Auvergne, France