Marcella Cheng Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mid-weight graphic designer at Synapsis Creative, designing a variety of projects across a variety of mediums, including print, presentation, animation and interactive.

Illustration as personal work and hobby. Have sold zines and prints at local zine fairs such as the MCA Zine Fair, Otherworlds Zine Fair, Offset Zine Fair and UTS Makers Market. Occasionally opens freelance illustration commissions when extra time permits, for online customers or for fundraising events, including various charities and emergency disaster.

Freelance work for UTSActivate, the sponsor for all clubs on campus. This job was designing the new club handbook that was to be published the following year.

Volunteered as part of the executive committee at UTS Drawing Circle, a student art society with over 200 members, dedicated to spreading the joy of art across campus. As event manager, was responsible for managing idea generation, organisation and execution of both physical and online events. During this year, co-created the live interactive online game.

Mentoring second-year students and assisting tutor in the subject Narrative Form and Time, a course dedicated to teaching different forms of story-telling. Responsibilities included teaching photoshop techniques, methods of visual story-telling and giving constructive feedback to students.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Designed book covers, internal pages and sets of reading cards, which included long-form typesetting, print production, and occasionally illustration. This job required communicating and discussing regularly with senior designers and directors, managing several projects at once, and keeping to strict print deadlines.

As the graphic design intern, assisted the senior designer and director in creating various assets for the new app the company launched that year. Also assisted in design work such as typesetting, pre-press and print production, and making marketing material.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Was the illustration intern for The Conversation for a couple of fun months, and had a blast illustrating for online news articles. Job included designing concepts around written pieces, communicating with authors and edits, and of course, illustrating!

Bachelor Of Design In Visual Communication (Honours)

Activities and Societies: Event Manager at UTS Drawing Circle in 2018

Higher School Certificate

Activities and Societies: Peer Support Leader in 2013