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Paddington, London

Initially going into the Adzone Studio to help with the VW account and helping to organise their imageassets library and retailers/showroom data, for both cars and commercial vehicles. I worked extensivelyon retailers POS, national and local press, magazine and periodicals, OOH, high-end brochures. Thisled to me also working across all the other accounts on pitches, presentations and artworks for thenumerous accounts of Adam & Eve DDB, ranging from packaging, promotional material, national andlocal press, magazine and periodicals, OOH, POS, high-end brochures for UK and international markets, I have also been heavily involved in digital media.

Goswell Road

Moving into Loveurope gave me the opportunity to hone my knowledge of colour management and also seamlessly integrate our two working systems. I worked extensively on national and local press, magazine and periodicals, OOH, POS, high-end brochures and on the Virgin Media account for all aspects of press and DM output.Clients included: Citizen Watches, Iflo, Knight Frank, Monarch Airlines, Virgin Media/Mobilesand Werther’s Original.

Smithfield

In this then brand new small agency with some quite big clients, I was instrumental in setting up and maintaining a workflow system, Odystar, which streamlined the production of ads and adapts. I also worked directly with the clients to produced a diverse range of artwork such as: taxi wraps, running tracks, food packaging to more complex colour management.Clients included: BT Olympics 2012, Citizen Watches, East Coast, Iflo, Knight Frank, Lloyds TSB International, Macquarie Bank, Monarch Airlines, National Express, Simplyhealth, Wickes, Woolworths and Werther’s Original.

London, United Kingdom

When I joined the studio in McCormick Publicis, it was, as a paste-up artist. After the merger of the Geers Gross studio and the creation of COMMA, I then progressed to full Mac operator and soon went on to manage the internal studios for City Financial Marketing and Dialogue. I later helped instigate a work-flow system for the large Comma@MarComms studio, which was comprised of 11 designer/art directors, copywriters and Mac operators.Clients included: ASDA, Allied Domecq, Australia Life, AXA, Budweiser, Chopard, Citizen, GNER, L’oreal, Manpower, Mcvities, National Superdrug, Renault, Tag Heuer, TranSys, Transport for London and Woolworths.

Leather Lane

Starting as a junior paste-up artist, I was soon working on most aspects of graphic studio work, ranging from pitch presentations, press ads and adapts to OOH artworks. This meant that I learned all sides of working in a darkroom, using a PMT camera to produce the elements for artworks, creating and colour management of rubdowns for presentation work, or creating TV end frames. Being in an independent studio and working for various large agencies I worked on a wide range of accountsAgencies included:McCormick Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi, KHBB, CDP.