About me

I am looking for an opportunity to work within an exciting, creative and innovative environment with whom I can develop my existing skills as a visual communicator/graphic designer.

I am seeking new experiences and challenges and would like to make a positive and valuable contribution to a creative team.

Having worked within the graphics industry (newspaper)for the past 11 years I am very experienced in all aspects of design processes and am used to producing high quality work to tight deadlines.

My key competancies are as follows

Creativity

- Highly imaginative

- Interpret design briefs from clients and produce a creative solutions to their needs.

- High standards of work with attention to detail

Communication

- A high level of interpersonal skills

- Adept at communicating with a wide range of people at all levels

- Positive Attitude.

Organisation

- Conscientious

- Efficient, and able to work under own initiative

- Deadline driven

- Ability to adapt to change

- Maintain a high standard of work under pressure

Teamwork

- Good motivator

- Approachable and humourous.

- Able to complete individual and group tasks while successfully fulfiling my own function as well as those of the group.

- Mindful and supportive to the needs of others

- Reliable and dependable

Computer Skills

- Apple Mac & PC operating systems

- Quark Xpress 4.0

- Photoshop 6 & Photoshop CS

- Familiar with Freehand

- Flat-bed scanner

- Microsoft Word