About me

Hello, my name is Catherine Medrano. If I have found some meaning to my expression, it has been through art. I am graphic designer from Maracaibo, Venezuela and I used to live in Edinburgh, Scotland. I have been working for long time with big companies doing graphic design work. I am very good at software programs and have a very clean organisation skill. For the last 7 years I have been directing and working with a big staff producing and post-producing TV commercials and music videos, so manage big groups of people is a natural skill that I have. Moreover I feel really conformable working in a team. I am very familiar with all operative systems and at the same time I have been working in cooperation with big teams.

It is not very common to find support in this career in my home country where it is mentioned as a dream or anything very bold and not easy to reach. But the most important thing was to always be hungry to explore what the world hides just in front of our eyes, experience the phenomena of reality as they were sandpaper and precise art in general and design in particular to make it to background of these phenomena, to squeeze them until there is nothing, and at the same time, when you destroy them, everything appears.

While studying my BA in Graphic Design, I started working with one of the most renowned directors of my country making storyboards and co-editing music videos and TV Programmes, whose experience helped me excel in my qualifications receiving five awards in university as 'Best Edition' and 'Best Art direction' in different student work done as a final project for my career, improving my performance as student and my work was nationally televised. Thanks to this, when I finished my career I worked for 2 years in a company as Graphic Designer doing storyboards, branding and the last five years editing TV commercials as a freelancer, creating on me an organizational scheme helping me to work under pressure with great success. What takes me to the next level by studying a diploma in 3D animation, strengthening my knowledge in this area of design. The last two summers, I have been volunteering for a charity community who helps various non-profit foundations, I help them design the concept according to the event.

This year I lived 5 months in Scotland where I studied English at Kaplan International Colleges, and increased my vocabulary to prepare myself for a new life, I think we lack of art but because we lack of life, working as Graphic Designer give me the privilege of having a thousand endings for stories that stir us.

Design it is my coping mechanism. To this is added that I design to reconcile with reality. I think if you gave a designer a world, this will fill it of 'wings'. The wings also help us survive.

Many thanks,

Catherine Medrano

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Perm, Freelance, Temp-Perm, Part time, Remote
Location
Maracaibo, Venezuela
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Junior, Middleweight, Senior, Director
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