Description

A highly skilled designer and creative lead with a flair for retouching and composition. Wide range of experience in design for marketing, advertising, licensing and publishing.

Experience working in fast-paced design agencies, producing high-quality visuals from limited assets and working on multiple projects simultaneously.

Skills: Photo Editing, Compositing and Retouching, Film Poster Design, Project and Process Management, Print and Publications, Large Print Formats, Digital Design, Social Media Art, Web and Email Layout and Design, Typography and Cartography, 3D Render Texture Art and Mapping, UI Artwork and 2D Animation

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

MCCGLC
Graphic Designer
December 2022 - March 2023 (3 months)
London, UK
Media 10 Ltd
Graphic Designer
March 2022 - December 2022 (9 months)
Loughton, England, United Kingdom
Simply Media
Creative Manager
January 2017 - February 2022 (5 years and 1 month)
London, UK
A leading distributor of the very best in quality home entertainment across film, TV and special interest DVDs and audio, specialising in releases for BBC, Channel 4, Universal and MGM. Provides a wide range of services, in partnership with Sony DADC, including sales, marketing and distribution for all genres to all high street, mail-order & online retailers. Responsibilities: Coordinating in-house design team. Developing innovative design for print and digital across DVD and CD artwork, digital marketing design and a monthly catalogue. Creating commercially viable creative solutions. Approval and sign off on all artwork. Achievements:
• Overhauled the design processes of monthly Simply Home Entertainment catalogue to allow for an increase in productivity across all linked departments, including editorial and marketing.
• Trained design team on new techniques for photo retouching and compositing to advance the quality of artwork.
• Through innovative design, secured commercial success of exclusive releases – e.g. the Special Edition of the multi-BAFTA winning Threads, for which the artwork received acclaim from the director and the BBC.
• Lead the design on a range of original music titles including 50s, 60s, Rock n' Roll, Soul and Folk, which now regularly top the Official Charts compilation category.