About me

I'm interested in being considered for any deputy art director or senior designer roles, ideally in publishing or corporate communications.

I have a solid knowledge of design, production, brand guidance, and management of freelancers and budgets. My work history has included large spells freelancing in London and also abroad in Australia. This has given me an insight into many different working practices and helped to develop my experience of design and production across many design disciplines (Publishing, corporate communications/brand guidance, exhibition work, packaging, advertising).

At present I am the deputy art director of the Big Issue magazine, but am now looking to further my career and to take on a new challenge, or new opportunity.

Hopefully I will be seen as a suitable candidate who is keen to take the next step in his career,

Regards,

Jim.

Skills

Design, layout, typography, creating templates, image retouching, commissioning illustrators/photographers, managing freelancers and budgets, artworking/production, image research, maintaining brand guidelines., Photoshop / Illustrator / Indesign / Quark Xpress / Bridge / Acrobat, Colour Management experience, Word / Excel / Powerpoint, Cyberduck / Filezilla

Sector Experience

Over 13yrs experience in the design industry, across many different disciplines;, Publishing, Corporate communications, Exhibition work, Packaging, Advertising

Awards

BA (Hons) Fine Art, BTEC Art Foundation Course (Pass), A-Level Art & Art History (B), French (E), F.L.A.W. (Pass), 9 GCSEs (Including Art (A), Mathematics (A), English Language (A), French (A)).

Clients

BSkyB, Dennis Publishing, Jack Morton, Mackann Erickson, Ogilvy, Tate, The Big issue