About me

Hi Cheryl,

My name is Graham Monaghan and I have seen that Stateside Skates are looking for a new graphics designer to join their team and would like to be considered for the role. I am a young, enthusiastic and motivated creative that is interested in all things design.

I am a recent graduate from the University of Sussex where I studied Media Practice and Theory and specialised in digital media and user interface design. For my final two years I worked predominantly in Flash and Illustrator designing educational interactive flash games. I am currently in the process of uploading these to my website and can email short editions of them to you if you wish to see my coding skills in flash.

While studying at university I was working as a freelance graphics designer with the majority of my work coming from Northern Soul Sportswear, Europe's largest lacrosse retail store where I continue to design custom lacrosse uniforms and an extensive clothing range. My role at Northern Soul includes; liaising with clients, designing, right through to getting the art work print ready as I am the only graphics designer within the company.

I have also recently graduated from Shillington college, a graphics design school based in Manchester where I expanding on my skills in Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign while working on a variety of print, web and branding based projects. I have also attended night classes in Dreamweaver, taught myself CSS to the extent that I created the style sheet for my own website and I am currently looking for night courses in HTML that I can attend while working.

I am a keen and quick learner with a passion to work in both digital and print platforms. I do allot of extreme sports myself including snowboarding, wakeboarding, BMXing and up until a few years ago inline skating as well. Therefore I feel that I would be a valuable member of your design team with some knowledge of your industry. I am currently based in Wilmslow but can make myself available for an interview any time that suits you and I am willing to relocate for work.

I have attached a CV and a shortened version of my digital portfolio for your consideration I have included a range of print, digital and typographical work. For more information and examples of my work please take some time to look through my website *.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Regards,

Graham Monaghan

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