Clare Dolan Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

As a Graphic Designer at Urban Systems, I work for a range of communities, municipalities and government bodies from small to large, coastal to inland. I understand the importance of using the right tools, style and approach for the right audience. My projects over the last year have included report design, toolkit document design, cover design, icon.

International

I create book covers, album artwork, posters, editorial illustration, logos and the like. Over the years, I've had the pleasure of working with Dynasaur (the UK rock band), Frank&Biscuit, Vancouver Quidditch League, Gina Giancola SAFE Foundation and more.

Vancouver, Canada Area

At Nest Designs I'm responsible for tasks including:- Layout design for catalogues, exhibition banners and postcards - Management of the Eric Carle Collection- Photography and photo editing of products- Pattern design for fabrics- Video production and editing which showcase product features- Packaging update- Simple animation which brings products to life.

London, United Kingdom

I provided creative solutions for a range of industries and in a variety of formats – from housing to leisure and exhibition displays to infographics and detailed maps. I was responsible for typesetting 10 monthly newsletters, coordinating printing for large planning applications and answering creative software queries from colleagues within and outside of.

London, United Kingdom

• Being a scientific publishing company with dozens of publications, tight deadlines were a common occurrence at Future Science Group and it was a great place to learn how to manage my time. I would often work on.
• instigated a project to add keywords to images in our image library which saved the production department time every day while image researching
• taught myself After Effects and Premiere Pro and succeeded in creating professional corporate videos
• trained 9 colleagues in using Illustrator
• partook in the social committee for reasons that I enjoy organizing and communicating with people across the company.

High Wycombe

• For this international engineering company, my responsibilities included:
• creating flyers, exhibition banners, technical drawings of products in Illustrator, typesetting, photographing products and retouching them in Photoshop for marketing materials.
• communicated effectively with different business teams regarding briefing, expectations and workload.During my time there, I improved my abilities in producing clear and simple visual communication and also my.

Remote

I designed the cover for The Shining City on the Hill - Caroline Collier's first novelSee the book here: www.amazon.co.uk/Shining-City-Hill-Caroline-Collier/dp/0985491701

Beeston

• In an ideas focused team, I partook in team meetings and campaign kickstarter meetings to help generate new concepts.
• Largely used Photoshop to clip and retouch product imagery and to create assets and components for their website.
• Experimented with team members to get the best photogenic results when photographing the new Mothercare baby clothing range.

Rugby & Loughborough

Alongside my studies I worked part-time as a sales assistant at T K Maxx. It is a fast paced store, so I am very practiced at working well to tight deadlines with many tasks in hand.

Illustration, Art And Design, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Label Magazine Part of the illustration team for the university magazine, Label.

Diploma, Foundation In Art And Design, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Modules taken in digital illustration, print-making, life drawing, photography, 3D, ceramics and more. At Rugby.