MIDDLE WEIGHT DESIGNER. 

MAR 14 – TO DATE. PROPAGANDA. W1H

Working for a promotional marketing company, I am responsible for designing corporate literature, presentations, marketing emails and animated banners and front-end websites. Additionally, using our tabletop studio, I photograph all my own products to produce strong Photoshop product visuals for web and print. Understanding brand guidelines is very important within my position as I deal with a huge variety of companies. 

Achievements:

• New accounts and repeat orders have come direct from my creative presentations and strong design-led visuals, as I go further for my clients by presenting different perspectives and ideas they may not have considered.

•  I give every project the same input - even the tamer jobs, Go Native were stuck for ideas and asked me for suggestions on a plain grey folder with their logo on it. I came back to them with 5 ideas which included blind embossing, background gradients, white borders, logo reflections and spot varnishes.

• I am known for my willingness to provide swift solutions when issues arise. The printers we were using needed a vector logo. Our client was unable to provide one, but with their permission, I redrew the Creative Sauce logo, matching the Pantones and fonts from their jpeg.

MIDDLE WEIGHT DESIGNER. 

MAR 09 – MAR 14. CABINET MAKER. CB22

Whilst at Cabinet Maker, my main role was producing a weekly furniture magazine, including the design of any advertising within. The design and typesetting of the magazine, the chasing and proofing of all advertising, and the liaising with printer staff was all on a week by week basis. On top of this, I also created animated banners and produced corporate literature. 

Achievements:

• Won two blind pitches through my design work. Subsequently, the clients recommended Cabinet Maker to another businesse which bought in further advertising revenue. Additional to this, my marketing strategy stopped a client from straying to the competition. Richardson Steely signed a contract with Cabinet Maker for a further year.

• Accustomed to pressurised deadlines. I regularly dealt with last minutes changes to feature spreads due to late advertising space requests. Quickly, I can resolve logo, text or lo-res image issues, still producing outstanding designs without compromise.  Working on a weekly, I was proud of my effective time management skills. My designs were completed on time, every week, without fail.

• Created and presented critical study of the Cambridgeshire South Cambs council magazine. The councillors agreed with my design changes with immediate effect omitting the conventional re-pitch procedure.