About me

I should be grateful if you would consider my application for employment within your organisation.

I have recently graduated from UCCA (University College for the Creative Arts) with a BA degree in Graphic Design and I am now keen to seek employment with a reputable organisation in order to progress my career and learn more about the profession.

I maintain a flexible approach to any project but certainly flourish when working on print based designs. I feel a high sense of achievement and satisfaction when screen layouts and spreads take to the page. I find print based design very challenging. I endeavour to gain an understanding of the audience and investigate the project theme so that the outcomes strongly relate to the original concept. I'd like to think that I'm the right type of candidate for the position, I'm a hard working individual that thrives within a group environment and atmosphere, in every case looking to show the best of my potential. I'm a fast learner, always dependable and seeking to understand.

With the right guidance, hopefully becoming a valid member of your team.

I look forward to hearing from you

Kind Regards

Curriculum Vitae

In short

Daniel Lay

Address

1 Church Cottages

Wrotham road

Meopham

Gravesend

Kent

DA13 0AB

Telephone

(01474)

Mobile

e-mail

Qualifications and education

- BA Degree in Graphic

Design

(Second Class Honours (Upper Division)

UCCA (University College for the Creative Arts)

- B-TEC National Diploma in Graphic Design (12) Distinctions and (4) Merits

Kent Institute of Art and Design

GCSE's Grades A* TO C (2) A* (6) B and (1) C

Northfleet School For Boys

Competent in the use of:

Indesign - Confident

Photoshop - Confident

Illustrator - Confident

Dreamweaver - Used Basic Knowledge

Fireworks - Used Basic Knowledge

Quark - Used Basic Knowledge

Employment and work experience

2001-Present - J.Sainsbury's plc

Part-time produce replenishment assistant

2000 - Work Experience

Banks and Zieja Design of London

I have been commissioned to produce graphic work for the following:

Corporate Identity and Layout work

Manor Hotel, Gravesend

Festive Decorations Ltd, Sidcup

Medway Borough Council

TheatreBugs, London

Artwork and Framing

Dennis Usher, HMS Ltd

I am a self-motivated, honest and reliable. I possess excellent communication and inter-personal skills and enjoy working with people. I am an open-minded person with a 'can-do' attitude and work well as part of a team or on my own initiative. I enjoy a challenge and would like to develop my skills further in a working environment where I can use my abilities to engage and contribute to the creative process of a design team. I am most certainly more at home when working on print based designs, I feel a high sense of achievement and satisfaction when screen layouts and spreads take to the page... the 2-D to 3-D shift has always really engaged me as a designer. Print based design is also very challenging, the structure of a page and movement through a publication are always testing obstacles, preventing designing these publications from ever getting tedious or tiresome, and keeping each brief different. I set out to develop my skills so that I become a more valuable and usable designer.