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Bath, England, United Kingdom

Reach are an integrated creative agency specialising in the games and entertainment industries. We work with clients such as PlayStation, Netflix, THQ Nordic and StudioCanal. As an integrated agency, we offer a range of complimentary services and try to solve as many of our clients problems as possible. As Art Director, I am responsible for a small team of designers, and championing design within the company. Design skills are applied to all of our output, which is incredibly varied and includes TikTok and social video, static assets, brand and style guides, influencer packs, and design for events. Every day is different, which I absolutely love! Highlights of my time at Reach so far include rebranding PlayStation Access, working on a live-action trailer for the BAFTA award-winning ‘Vampire Survivors’, and designing social campaign assets for Netflix consumer products including ‘Scoops Ahoy!’, and ‘The Gentleman’ apparel.

Bath, England, United Kingdom

AUK is an integrated brand communication agency which works across a range of industries including lifestyle, B2B, FMCG and meditech.I was brought in as Art Director working across every project that moved through the agency, and heading up a small team. We worked across a range of media including social campaigns, marketing campaigns, and print and had to be nimble - developing the ability to quickly switch styles whilst working across several projects simultaneously.I worked closely with the creative strategist to ensure our work had depth - viable as a headline project, but also distillable into smaller activations. We also became brand guardians for our clients - building and maintaining guidelines, but also knowing when and how to flex them.A highlight of my time at AUK was collaborating with a small music production team to create an original (and very wacky) piece of music to celebrate the relaunch of Chewits.

Bath, United Kingdom

Sunhouse Creative are a design studio specialising in FMCG and packaging. Their client list includes the likes of Unilever and Danone, and brands such as Magnum and Dove. At Sunhouse, I was designing a range of media types including posters, presentation decks, and illustrative assets that were animated for video. One of my proudest achievements at Sunhouse were illustrations that I created for both Magnum and Dove packaging. These were then used in bigger activations including subway takeovers, banners, posters, billboards, and pos.Skills I developed at Sunhouse included branding, illustration, POS design and in-store toolkits.

Bath, United Kingdom

Red Central is an agency specialising in branding and licensing. As a middleweight designer, I designed assets for clients such as Universal, Warner Bros., PlayStation, Disney, Ubisoft and Aardman. Typically the work I produced included brand guidelines, look books, and style guides for licensing purposes.A big part of my role was recognising (and predicting) trends to then apply to our clients’ numerous IPs. Working on various kinds of trends meant developing a range of creative design skills including illustration, typography, pattern and layouts for print. I have seen my work at Red in stores around the world including Singapore and USA - something for which I am very proud.

Bath, United Kingdom

My role at The Agency required me to produce strong concepts to enable brand development, as well as the redevelopment of existing brands, working to very specific briefs as detailed by my clients.I was responsible for developing initial concepts to create visual identities, corporate logos and communications via print design, templates and client websites - producing work of the highest quality on time, and within budget. I built, managed and maintained successful client relationships and accounts, and confidently juggled multiple projects.I am proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite and demonstrated a range of multi-disciplinary experience including illustrative, print and digital and played a key part of the creative team, developing pitches and promoting the company; pulling together design territories.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Stuff is a Bristol based advertising agency, founded by Richard Spruce, the former head of creative at Mcann Erikson, Bristol.My main roles included assisting the creative director in developing spreads, creating graphic and illustrative icons unique to specific articles, photographic specific product shots and assisting with photo shoots. Design of promotional and advertising projects for clients such as Nestlé and Trunki.

The UK’s No.1 Extreme Sports Blog has 3 internal sections : iLivExtreme, Adrenalin Chronicles, and The Music Show.For all 3 sections, I am in charge of all public facing brand recognition including main logo designs, idents, T-shirt designs, web layouts, television advert storyboarding, advertising and incorporating sponsors such as Relentless and SkullCandy within logos.I maintain a professional line of communication providing updates and progress reports on the different stages of my designs, as well as meeting strict deadlines.

Swansea

The Constant Media specialise in web development, web-design, copy-writing, social media, graphics and web-marketing. My more challenging roles within the company were liasing with numerous high-profile companies on a regular basis.Working closely with a team of freelance support web designers and developers to complete work for our clients, often to a very limited timeframe.

Learning key skills for advertising, marketing and customer service. During my time at Big Cat I dealt with customers and often had to meet strict deadlines. I was often asked to organise finished and on going projects, Photoshop editing photographs and also coming up with advertising ideas for Rospa and music festivals taking place in Birmingham.

Flyer and logo design, Throughout this 5 week placement I learnt a great deal of the daily goings on within a small freelance design office, having different tasks set every day such as branding and advertising opportunities.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: Netball

Higher National Diploma, Graphic Design

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Design And Applied Arts