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Christchurch, Dorset, United Kingdom

Christchurch, Dorset, United Kingdom

Having fresh eyes and branding experience I helped establish brand guidelines for British Fires. Using some elements already created expanded and improved aspects of the brand. This includes type-treatments, photography styles, supporting graphic elements, and layout grids.Daily projects include designing: magazine ads, product brochures, packaging, instruction manuals, mailchimp campaigns, and maintaining websites for multiple brands of Focal Point Fires.Liaise with internal and external partners in order to ensure projects are delivered on-time and to expectations.

My goal is to help you reach your goals through design and help you become better at what you do. Having the experience of working with some well-known, large brands, such as the Washington Nationals am ready to help you with any size project you have from print design, logo design, or web/social media graphics.

London, United Kingdom

I spent two months expanding my knowledge of type design and font engineering at the Dalton Maag Studio in Brixton. The internship lasted 8 weeks with different tasks to tackle in each. It started with basic calligraphy of a few different styles and hand-drawing classic typefaces to great detail. Week three, I began a new design of a new typeface of my choice. I decided to explore something of the Clarendon genre but with a modern take. Using FontLab5, the following six weeks included: drawing an ‘ideation’ glyph set (which included lots of testing, printing, checking); expanding ideation set after approval; drawing extreme weights; interpolating between extremes and weight planning; drawing italics and interpolating between extreme weights. In all, the two-months were a great way of learning a method to develop more typefaces in the future. The people I worked with were incredibly knowledgable and encouraging. The 8-week program helped me fine-tune my eye for drawing and criticizing my own work.

Boston, Ma

Helped re-design company pitchbooks using newly established brand guidelines for sales managers to use during in-person meetings. Involved heavy use of InDesign and Illustrator, as well as, collaborating among team members to ensure the design of all pitchbooks were visually cohesive. A contribution of mine to the overall project was encouraging the use of tabular figures within tables so all numerals line-up vertically.

Boston, Ma

Designed print materials within John Hancock’s standards and guidelines.Utilized Box for file management and JIRA work processes including managing edits and projects management.Multitasked and prioritized workload with quick turnarounds.

Boston, Ma

Worked in tandem with the founder to develop marketing, advertising and annual reports for local businesses.Designed a new Dickinson Lab website via Squarespace. (dickinsonlab.com) Provided the skills and expertise to produce creative work.

Boston, Ma

Created and edited PPT presentations for RFP's pitched to large brands. Collaborated with different account teams, as well as the creative team, to design digitally displayed ads, infographics and other campaign graphics. Ensured all print files were correct and ready for third-party vendors.Efficiently turned around the quick and easy projects while balancing the longer-term projects for a variety of project managers and their clients. This included printed items for Swiss Miss, digitally displayed ads for the American Bus Association's scholarship fund and infographics for the Spectrum.Communicated with third-party vendors and internal colleagues, Graphic Design Principles, Adobe Creative Cloud (Ai, Id, Ps) Microsoft PP

Somerville, Ma

Assisted the creative director on many different design projects. This included working on pre-existing items and also conceptualizing new items such as magazine ads, event branding, and logo designs. Edited images in photoshop for websites curated by GMG.Designed many projects that helped gain exposure to events, both local and out of state. These included events for the ADL, GLAD, Easter Seals in California, Tufts University and many more organizations. Utilized Adobe Creative Cloud (Ai, Id, Ps), Typography, Photo editing, File organization.

Bethesda, Md

Worked with the HJF creative team in the design, creation and production of a series of booklets for a program helping to educate people on joint pain. Daily activities included working in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop for the editing and design of the supporting literature and presentations. For quality control, I printed these booklets as prototypes for editing reasons before the final product was sent to the print vendor. Due to the success of the joint pain program, which was funded by the Department of Defense and Veterans Health Administration, was asked to conceptualize branding for a battlefield acupuncture program for that is operated through the Air Force. Using the branding elements I developed, applied them to informational literature, surveys and presentations. The project was in the final steps of development before relocating to Cambridge, MA. Thus, I did not get to see it finished but it the concept was approved and highly regarded by the project leader. During these larger projects I also assisted the design team by contributing to a variety of projects, such as redesigning a desk calendar, designing logo proposals for new groups and helping team members with production of posters.Utilized Adobe Creative Suite to develop thoughtful solutions in order to solve visual communication problems. Seamless communication with project leaders to keep projects moving through the pipeline.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Helped the creative team by editing, designing and developing an array of projects which included print and digital assets. Under the guidance of the Creative Director, I was responsible for keeping the look of projects within company brand guidelines. Helped the creative team by designing print materials such as brochures and booklets as well as social media graphics advertising international conferences and editing PowerPoint presentations that were used for a large convention. Some projects involved editing and improving the look of internal documents such a booklet containing information of EEI's members and supporters. Overall, these projects helped attract eyes and ,ultimately, participation in social media outlets and convention outings.Kerned headlines and created clear visual hierarchy and grid based layout design – while working on multiple projects at a time.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Designed a wide-range of print materials from signage for the stadium, artwork for the on-deck circle, game-day programs, street team cards and internal booklets. Created Instagram posts, digital ads, and other small digital signage for the stadium. Helped the Nationals turn around a lot of projects in short amount time to catch up on work flow. But have also helped the organization by creating some great internal pieces for the employees that work in the stadium during game day. Used my creative talent by pushing the limits on the brand: It's been a goal of mine to see what I can do with the organizations strict guidelines by coming up with new ideas. I did this by really pushing the limits with certain projects by using different color/type treatments.

Quickly grasped Flexi, a sign shop software program, for pre-press purposes (check colors, artwork, spelling, etc.). Then sent .eps files to Onyx (program which communicates with all the printers) to be printed on various machines of different capabilities. After the files are printed they are then "worked" which could entail anything from cutting vinyl or coroplast to specific sizes or adding grommets. Daily responsibilities include cleaning the printers, maintaining sufficient stock and communicating with peers about the daily projects. Learned new software programs like Flexi and Onyx. Printing process of different large-format printing machines and different substrates. Proofed and color-matched projects before they were okayed for pick-up.

Washington D.C.

Assisted the Art Director with creating direct mail pieces and original logos, which were high in volume and short on time, for political candidates running for office. Maintained an organized document filing system that contained many images, ever-changing design files and other documents. Created original artwork, logos and templates for various politicians. In some instances candidates we were supporting, graphics-wise, won elections including NC representative Tom McInnis, who's logo I designed!Most projects included editing photos, setting type and ensuring projects were ready-to-print.

Menlo, Georgia

Maintained a large catalog of images for distribution to third-party vendors and to use in internal projects. Communicated with several sales professionals directly to help them with their design needs; such as creating gloves boards, sales sheets and banner stands. Created and designed catalogs, hang tags, magazine ads, brochures, and other projects that help our sales professionals become successful and drive sales. Oragnized files, planned and met deadlines, conceptualized designing and planning of print materials such as magazine ads, hang tags and sales catalogs.

Type Design And Production

Associates Of Art, Graphic Design

Bachelors, Business Management

Activities and Societies: Barton Golf Team 2004-20082006 Fall Semester Dean’s List 2007 Spring Semester Dean’s List 2007 Fall Semester.

High School