Georgie Smith Email & Phone Number

Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Australia

Freelance Graphic Designer and Art director working remotely from my studio at the inner city suburb of New Farm in Brisbane, Australia. Georgie Girl Design was created after working for News Corp, Australia for 15 years in a variety of senior graphic design roles producing marketing and editorial material in both the metropolitan and community newspaper titles in Sydney and Brisbane. Since leaving News I have worked across all aspects of design including company magazines, annual reports, modern slavery documents, company newspapers, powerpoint presentations and web advertising.

Brisbane

Art director for U on Sunday, a weekly magazine that I produced for The Sunday Mail. My role required that I know and work on every part of the magazine production process. I liaised with editors, journalists, image enhancers and printers at the print plant to ensure production of a quality product every week.

Brisbane, Australia

Senior Graphic Designer with NewsCentral at Queensland Newspapers. NewsCentral was a department created by merging production staff from Quest, Courier Mail and Sunday Mail Newspapers and magazines. It was at this time that I learnt to efficiently work remotely. Editors and journalists would email a brief to a central email box requesting a infographic or magazine layout they would like produced and then a design sent back to them for changes and eventually final sign off. Every newspaper and magazine had a unique style guide that had to be remembered, whilst working to a different deadline for every publication meant this job was not for the faint-hearted.I also spent 6 months working as a digital designer for couriermail.com

Brisbane, Australia

I lead a team of three graphic designers and oversaw the production of all newspaper graphics and front pages for 23 community newspapers within the Brisbane, Ipswich and Sunshine Coast area as well as the City News magazine. Using my conscious planning and thoughtful decision making skills, allowed me to successfully multi task and thrive in this high pressure role.

Brisbane, Australia

Graphic designer working on a variety of creative jobs for Aurora Marketing including the winning tender for the Brisbane Airport Link Tunnel. The long-form report for the tender entailed working with architects to include their artist impressions and create a polished piece for submission.

Brisbane, Australia

Designed and created a 32 page 'Home' magazine for The Courier Mail. As art director I attended weekly briefings with the Editor and Deputy Editor of the magazine and came up with photoshoot ideas for the magazine and then briefed the photographer, laid out the magazine pages and checked proofs before sending the magazine to print.I then moved back to Qweekend magazine as a senior graphic designer. I attended weekly editorial meetings with the whole team to brainstorm photoshoot ideas for upcoming editions as well as attending and styling weekly photoshoots taken of food at Sirromet Wines. Laying out pages, working to a weekly deadline and preparing pages for print were all part of my role.

Sydney, Australia

I began my time with News Corp Australia as a senior graphic designer working for their marketing department creating material for both the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph in the lead up to and during the Sydney Olympics in 2000. After the Olympics I moved into the editorial department to create design for both the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. Always working to a tight daily deadline to create editorial feature liftouts on that days big news story, such as September 11. At other times creating educational magazine series that were developed for school aged children. These magazine series would mean that I was managing and giving art direction to several staff members as well as creating the artwork, working to tight deadlines and checking proofs before they went to press.