About me

I am currently freelancing for various clients.

I have just recently left Saga Services where I worked on brand-leading insurance, financial and holiday products. The work included integrated campaigns and single platform collateral including brochures, booklets, leaflets, posters, ads, mail packs, direct mail, press and magazine advertising design, corporate branding, magazine design and layout, exhibition graphics, promotional items, catalogue design and layout, web banner design and concept work. I am comfortable working on multiple projects at the same time and am confident in taking a design job from brief to print.

I was also responsible for a team of designers/freelancers and have experience in art direction. I am fluent in the CS5 suite, and use Acrobat, Word and Excel on a daily basis.

Skills

Skills include: advertising design, direct mail, corporate branding, brochures, corporate identity, magazine design, exhibition graphics, promotional items, annual reports, catalogue layout, team management, CS5 creative suite, Artworking, illustration and art direction., I am also a published writer, a painter and ceramic artist.

Sector Experience

Senior Graphic Designer for the Saga Group - team leader and creative marketing designer. Products include Insurance (Medical, Home, Motor, Travel, among others) Financial, Care at Home, Medical, Alarm sevices, Cruising and general Holidays., Senior Graphic Designer for Hitachi Data Systems - design, art direction, traffic management and project coordination for an international mainframe computer corporation , Studio Manager of Metrographix - production management, design and design direction for an alternative newspaper in Silicon Valley

Awards

B.SC. in Graphic Design, Distinction, Awards: BMA - Los Angeles West Award for Design Excellence, Five DESI Awards for Excellence from Graphic Design USA, The Portland Club of Lithographers Gallery of Superb Printing First Place Award, Fortune Magazine Targeted Media Award, Two Creative Magazine Awards for Art Direction.

Clients

Alliance Technology, Coopers & Lybrand, Danish Remont Trading, Hitachi Computer Products, International Casino Executive Association, National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts, Opera San Jose, RNLI, San Jose Civic Light Opera, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Jose State University, South Bay Accent Magazine (Silicon Valley), The Aris Project, The Insider Business Newspaper (San Jose)

Trade Associations

Chartered Society of Designers