Claire Leibrick Email & Phone Number

Norwich, Gb

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

In April I officially joined Archant’s Creative Life agency. The agency develops creative solutions that produces powerful audience reactions to ensure that every penny invested in creatives makes a real difference to the client’s business. As part of the development of the agency a dedicated Editorial Design team was formed to provide bespoke commercial editorial design for external clients and across the Archant business. My role as Editorial Design Lead involves overseeing client editorial projects and ensuring the highest creative standards. We utilise a variety of visual narrative devices across a diverse range of media to guide the reader on a journey and engage and inspire the target audience.I regularly develop new designs working closely to the client’s brief and produce presentation documents with considered rationale to pitch directly to the client. Typography, grids, colour and layouts are all finely crafted.While working as Editorial Design Lead I have worked on a diverse range of projects such as a high-end luxury bookazine to commemorate the Queen’s jubilee and two sticker books following art trails around Norfolk and Suffolk, alongside many others.

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

In tandem with my team’s work on the Dialogue portfolio we also helped out across Archant titles and marketing. This culminated in the merger of the Pitch and Projects team with the Dialogue design team to form the multi-platform Client Design Services. Alongside the Group Art Director, I managed the CDS team of 13 multi-disciplined and talented designers. We worked across editorial design, branding, advertising, and marketing for a wide range of clients in a variety of sectors. I was responsible for pitching our team’s designs to internal and external clients.As well as the Dialogue clients we also worked on projects for Banham Zoo, Norwich Research Park, Rolex, Norwich City Football Club, Smart Paws, Aldiss and more.After the disbanding of CDS due to the creation of Creative Life, I oversaw a small team of designers helping on the large portfolio of Archant Life magazines (working on art directed features) and various special interest newsstand titles. This gave me direct experience of designing for newsstand and was a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment as we had over a dozen titles with monthly deadlines.For the Life titles I also worked on creatives for development of the apps and gave advice to the web development team as well helping to design landing pages for the Life titles.

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for a team of 7 designers for Archant Publishing Services, working across the Dialogue portfolio of magazines. The work for Dialogue was primarily print editorial but also included Mag+ and Edition Digital work as well as branding and marketing materials. Our scope of work spanned member magazines to luxury titles and included a global client base. We worked on designs across multiple languages including non Latin languages such as Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Arabic. This included work for Harley Owners Group and HOG US across a global market. For HOG we produced a multi-language magazine, other marketing materials (ride guides, member guides etc) and helped on the global HOG app. As well as ensuring the smooth production and printing of the portfolio of titles, I was also design lead for numerous clients. I managed picture budgets and commissioned/art directed photographers and illustrators. We helped on pitch work for new business and worked closely with the Dialogue Art Director and Dialogue Creative Leads.Clients serviced by the team included Rolls Royce, Bentley, Lotus, HOG, Jeep, Air Charter Service, AGA, Odgers Berndtson, British Eventing and many more. We worked across numerous sectors including luxury lifestyle, automotive, equestrian and executive search.

Norwich, United Kingdom

Continued work for the Dialogue editorial design team. I was responsible for mentoring and art directing a small team of designers across various titles and clients as well as continuing to be Design Lead on my own titles.I worked on numerous new business developments and attended competitive pitches to prospective clients. AGA Living and the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association are just two of the clients that I designed from the beginning and supported the Art Director in winning.

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Part of a busy magazine design team, helping to design pages for monthly, quarterly and annual publications and design lead on numerous magazines. Clients included Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Eventing, Army Cadet Force, Burghley and Badminton Horse Trials, Connexions, plus many others.