About me

An enthusiastic and versatile Graphic Designer with excellent conceptual design and software skills and extensive experience of delivering market-focused solutions and winning new business pitches. A proactive team member with excellent organisational, communication and presentation skills who has worked for Corporate and SME businesses in the design and publishing sectors.

Tags:

CS5 InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator; Quark; typography; brochures; reports; newsletters; books; magazines; marketing material; logos; branding; art direction; art buying; photography commissioning.

Skills

> Highly proficient using InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Professional (CS5), Quark (7.0), > Responsible for creative direction and development and aware of current design trends, > Drawing skills: wireframing; scamps; visuals etc., > Worked on various media including, books, branding, brochures, DM, exhibition graphics, logos, magazines, marketing material, POS and reports, > Typographic styling, layout and information design skills, > Image creation, editing and re-touching skills, > Accurate and competent art-worker with knowledge of print processes and finishes, > Worked with corporate guidelines and licensed brands and products, > Creative lead who has managed costings, freelance designers, illustrators and photographers, > Supplying interface graphics to web developers (no html/css/functionality skills), > Intermediate Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills

Sector Experience

Academic; architectural; automotive; B2B; B2C; charity; consumer & contract magazines; educational; financial; FMCG; NGOs; non-fiction & reference books; scientific.

Awards

1993 - 1995: London College of Printing; HND in Typographic Design (Distinction), The course offered the opportunity to investigate and experiment with the dynamics of visible language through the intensive study of type and typographic design.

Clients

BBC Worldwide, Cambridge University Press, CEE Bankwatch, Continuum, CPL, Fauna and Flora International, Friends of the Earth Europe, Hart McLeod, Kogan Page, McCallum Design, Oxford University Press, Routledge