About me

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am a creative, driven and professional graphic designer and I like to portray this in everything I do. I've been working on one of the top 10 selling women's magazines, for nearly 8 years now and would love to progress my design career within a different industry. I have the confidence to work both independently and as part of a team, whilst being quick to grasp and develop new styles and ideas

I pride myself on being highly organised and self-motivated and believe I produce my best work under pressure. This being recently shown by solely art directing, designing and retouching a 154 page 'Christmas Makes' special outside of work hours, which achieved record profits and sales of 75k copies.(Forecasted at 40-50k sales). I have also just finished solely designing a cookery magazine that is on the shelves now. I Art directed, designed and retouched the whole issue outside of work hours.

My role involves designing a large bulk of high quality layouts across all areas of the magazine including fashion, beauty, cookery, travel and features. Deputising as Art Editor weekly, involving setting a style and designing numerous supplements independently, art direction on photo-shoots and proofing pages before printing. I have significant experience of repro and digitally enhancing images to a print standard. My other roles include: commissioning illustrators, still life photography, picture research, designing packaging for covers with supplements and supporting/managing junior members of the art team. I also design promotional material for the annual Prima High Street Fashion Awards and other events, including logos adverts, points of sale, web-based design, email pushes, programmes, banners, etc. Both online and print based.

My design skills can be cross- platformed across multiple areas and industries. I'm very enthusiastic about a new challenge and would love to grasp an opportunity with your company.

I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Kind Regards

Ryan Spear