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Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to enquire if the job advertised for the position of Graphic Designer (Ref: 2499) is still available.

I have had 15 years industry experience as a Designer/Art Director, and have been freelancing for the past 4 years, prior to this, having been employed by agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann Erickson and Leo Burnett (in their overseas offices), and also various UK design consultancies and ad agencies.

Over the past 4 years, working under my own freelance limited company and catering for the growing marketing needs of my my main Airline corporate client (Air Transat, & their Tour Operator subsidiaries, Canadian Affair & Affair Travel) my professional role has required me to become more client-facing, and responsible for project budgets, supplier sourcing and also regularly recruiting and interviewing other freelance designers and web-developers (on average - organising and overseering teams of 10-15 creative professionals per year), where I have acted in a more Lead Creative/Creative Director capacity. However, my core skills are still of an all-round 'hands-on' Designer or Art Director with conceptual/strategic abilities, and an ability to visualise in either hand drawn, or finished photo-retouched digital-ready artwork.

Furthermore, I have also self-taught myself an above basic level of hand-coding in HTML and CSS using open-source software (and actively continue to attempt to increase my knowledge of other web-based programming languages), having made my first website in 2007 using Flash and Dreamweaver, and have also been involved in designing for digital marketing (such as social media campaigns, digital brochures and HTML emails) throughout the past 5 years of my career.

Please find attached a CV and portfolio in PDF format with full details of experience.

If you have any queries, then I am reachable on:

or: (Mobile) , (Tel)

Yours Sincerely,

Mike Blackburn

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