About me

I am a highly motivated, diligent, and committed design professional and an artist with a fine art university degree and over 15 years of experience in design and decorative arts. I have a broad knowledge and understanding of graphic design, art, promo, educational materials, interior design, exhibition displays, brand books, and decorations.

Successfully managed and coordinated various projects from concept through final delivery. Worked closely with leadership teams and teachers to create a vision and design. I have experience leading and coordinating design and production teams and working with vendors, engineers, and consultants.
Most of my previous work experiences were connected with an educational environment in one way or another. My last position was as a Graphic Designer at Tudor Grange Academy. I combined many responsibilities, including creating educational visual aids, promotional and advertising products, infographics, presentations, publishing, interior decoration, and large-format and general printing. Also, what was new for me, was reportage and portrait photography, creating video materials, and website maintenance (WordPress): creating new pages, icons, templates, etc.

Before Tudor Grange Academy, I worked as an Art Director in a big edutainment interactive park for children of various ages, which recreated a typical town with all infrastructure where kids could try different professions and activities. It was an ambitious start-up project, so I had an excellent opportunity to push my managing and negotiation skills to the next level and learn how to work lean and efficiently on a tight schedule and budget (or sometimes without it). Besides dealing with art tasks, I searched for and worked with different partners, sponsors, and contractors. Our department was a small team of enthusiasts who had to do everything from scratch. Nevertheless, we managed to create a great space of very high quality. (*)

I'm passionate about design, creativity, digital media, painting, and art. I'm fluent in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Acrobat Aftereffects and Presentation software, and Microsoft Office/PowerPoint.

You can find some examples of my work in my portfolio at galaivakina.com.

Skills

Art Direction, Artist Management, Brand Management, Content Management, Exhibition Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design, Painting, Pattern Design, Picture Research, Pre-Press, Print Design, Printing, Project Design, Publishing, Space Planning, Typography

Sector Experience

Arts, Design, Education, Fine Art, Painting & Sculpture, Interactive, Interiors

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Availability
Looking for work
Contract
Perm, Freelance, Temp-Perm, Part time
Location
Solihull, UK, United Kingdom
Skill Level
Middleweight, Senior, Director
Languages
Russian, English
Creativepool member since 1 October 2016