About me

Now: NICKY SHIPP MENTORING & COACHING FOR CREATIVES

I'm now using my extensive experience and long-held & newly-honed skills to help designers and other creative people to access their creativity, hone their skills etc - in short, maximise their professional & personal potential. Deeply joyful!

"Working with Nicky has helped me to change the way I think. I can now recognise and appreciate my own creativity and other talents - and can really feel my small and medium-sized successes, whereas I used to value only the big, obvious ones.​ I've found it very useful to break things down, and have my progress reflected back to me. I used to get bogged down, wallow, or just power-through without reflecting. Now, I ask myself questions: what's the next step, what are the options... I have a clearer frame of mind and, rather than just reacting, I'm making active choices and better decisions." (name witheld for confidentiality)

Previously: Highly experienced graphic designer, copywriter & photographer

5 yrs to March 2019: CREATIVE DIRECTOR at TC Branding Group

Working on: pitches & tenders, presentations, corporate re-branding, website design & implementation for TC and customer ecommerce sites, product visuals, social media, marketing collateral, video concepts, production and soundtrack, etc

Skills & expertise: managing & mentoring design staff . graphic design (print & web) . typography . copy & headline writing . photography . product ideas, visualisation & selection input . social media . supplier selection & liaison . commercial/marketing input

1986 to Aug 2020: FREELANCE CONSULTANT

Creative . reliable . responsive . flexible . easy to work with . cost-effective - and la sense of humour!

Excellent at understanding & interpreting the brief, producing imaginative, on-target concepts & translating them into effective designs & accurate artwork - coupled with attention to detail, openness to ideas, discretion & delivering on time, within budget. Clients, both direct & via London agencies, incl. Amey . AstraZeneca . Avis . Boots . Budget . De Beers . Diabetes UK . Homes Overseas Magazine . London Ambulance Service . Minton Spring Water . Novartis . Nuffield Hospitals . Pfizer . Procter & Gamble . QinetiQ . The Stroke Association . Travelport/Galileo/Worldspan...

Working at own premises or in-house, using Adobe/QuarkXP & Powerpoint, etc; other skills incl. retouching, diagrammatic illustration, art direction, project management, videos and soundtracks, etc.

Clients

Amey, Astra Zeneca, Avis, boots, Budget, De Beers, diabetes uk, Homes Overseas Magazine, London Ambulance Service, Minton Spring Water, Novartis, Nuffield Hospitals, PFIZER, Procter & Gamble, QinetiQ, Road Chef, Royal Green Jackets, The Stroke Association, Travelport