James Shead Email & Phone Number

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Working within the Brand team to develop creative responses to briefs. Managing the process from concept to creation in order to grow and enhance the brand, drive acquisition and maintain customer loyalty.Specific accountabilities:• Designing collateral including: Direct Mail items, print adverts, posters, brochures and customer communications• Working with the Online Designer to create integrated marketing campaigns which offer a smooth brand experience and customer journey from offline to online• Working with the Social Networking team to create artwork to be used online.• Working with the Marketing team to interpret briefs in order to provide creative solutions and concepts that meet the strategic needs of the organisation• Leading the development and enhancement of the brand guidelines in order to maintain brand consistency throughout all materials produced.

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• Working as part of the branding/production team.• Supporting and contributing to the vision for the department / business.• Contributing creative ideas wherever possible to projects.• Creating strong visual concepts and refined designs for print / digital projects.• Owning the visual direction and production of the Lush Times / Gift guides.• Ensuring the branding guidelines across print and digital are upheld.• Ensuring successful delivery of projects, managing print jobs - ensuring print meets standards through working closely with printers.• Working with internal resources such as photographers to create assets for design.• Organising and cataloguing design assets / ensuring assets are of a high standard.• Communicating and assisting other teams/departments across the business either within the UK or internationally.

To conceptualize and design a magazine with 13 issues a year, developing each issue from initial briefs all the way through to finished pdfs. This encompassed:• Developing and presenting conceptual designs to senior management.• Generation of all finished artwork and design, to produce final pdfs for approval.• Sourcing and briefing of artists and photographers.• Co-ordination of photoshoots and conducting photography myself.• Sourcing of appropriate image material from stock image sites.• Producing media packs for advertising to be used for print and online.• Creating online web banners and house adverts.• Backing up and cataloguing images and issues so international departments have clarity on image availability, source and cost.In addition to this, I have recorded and produced podcasts, including live streaming podcasts to cover Apple launch events.I also wrote mini reviews of iPhone apps for one of our Apple magazines.

Employing Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Acrobat and Distiller, I was responsible for the creation of daily Editorial and Advertising copy for various magazines of differing styles. I was also responsible for creating finished artwork for stationary, corporate identities, flyers and logos. The role entailed working with Editors on a regular basis and liaising with clients in relation to artwork creation / changes, and generating pdfs to help facilitate the approval process. I was also required to manage daily office operations whilst the MD was travelling out of the business.

To design/construct the complete layout for all editorial pages, using Apple Macs, of several monthly magazines and two annuals plus work on other titles within the company where needed. This included generating final pdfs to be sent to the printer.

Creating and Manipulating artwork for a wide and varied selection of clientele using various design packages, such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark, Freehand. Outputting artwork to negative film which I then used to create two types of lithographic plates. This involved working in 4 - 8 colour separation and producing custom die cutters.

User Experience Design

Nvq 2/3 Origination, Design For Print

Nvq Origination Level 2 & 3, A Level Fine Art

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