Rebecca Stead Email & Phone Number

Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

Art Editor - Homes & Antiques magazine• Responsible for the overall design and layout while ensuring it keeps to thehouse style of the magazine• Manage the workload between myself and the Deputy Art Editorwithin 4 week deadlines, while also designing a share of 164 pages• Review and oversee the work produced by the Deputy Art Editor and freelancedesigners before final sign off with the Editor• Oversee and coordinate the decorating themed shoot for each issue of the magazine which takes place in London. • Go on location to manage photoshoots for house features for the magazine• Regularly commission illustrations for features• Liaise with stock libraries to negotiate rates of pay for images• Research and book freelancers to cover holidays• Partake in regular brain storming meetings for feature ideas for the magazine• Photo editing when necessary• Liaise with the reproduction team about photo editing, proofing pagesand sending pages to the printers• Designing marketing material in the style of the magazine as and when necessary

Bristol, United Kingdom

I am currently freelancing at Immediate Media on Homes & Antiques magazine.

Cheltenham

• Create contemporary articles which compliment the photography with subtle designand format• Edit feature photographs to ensure they fit the tone of the subject including themagazine’s philosophy• Propose feature ideas for the magazine and suggest photographers to feature• Work closely with the team to ensure tight deadlines are met (13 issues a year)• Contribute to the blog section of the company website, choose photos of the dayand post on all social media outlets• Work on other projects/magazines as and when required – Turning Pro (4 issues ayear), Photography Monthly, page turners and one off booklets and other magazines• Ensure new members of the team are supported, especially those with limitedexperience with our workflow, systems and software• Manage the “Professional Photographer of the Year” competition from the incubationperiod to conclusion. Curate content for promotion of the competition and workingwith judges, sponsors and entrants. Make initial selection, refine and reduce all entriesfor each category to 100 of the best. Co-ordinate awards evening for judges, entrantsand sponsors

Cheltenham

• Designer of The Photographers Guide to Turning Pro quarterly magazine• Designer of BPI (British Photographic Industry) industry magazine• Designer of The English Summer and English Autumn quarterly magazines• Advert designer for regional magazines• Created mock ups for new magazine My Cotswold Family

Cheltenham

• Responsible for all of the editorial design and layout on monthly magazinesCotswold Life and Shropshire Life• Instrumental in redesigning Your Cotswold Wedding magazine, Gourmet Lifesupplementand designed a new title, Cotswold Living magazine• Work on other projects/magazines as and when required

• Part of a team working on advertisements for France Magazine, Living France andFrench Property News• Produced marketing material and editorial pages when required to help colleaguesmeet tight deadlines• Responsible for redesigning the 2006 France Magazine calendar

2:1 Ba Hons, Advertising

A Levels, Art. Media Studies, English