Rebecca Shaw Email & Phone Number

Cardiff, GB

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

• I ensure that all design is high quality, consistent and best in class, helping to establish and reinforce B2C brand leaders. Using agile methodologies I produce creative, innovative and effective products for our.
• Working with internal stakeholders and managing directors to create designs that deliver on the newsstand, across various channels, to attract an engaged audience.
• Efficient resource management to help create a healthy high performing culture, allowing for fair and effective placement of art support across the relevant titles, reducing freelance spend and saving budget.
• Achieving daily goals to meet the monthly publication deadlines without fail, I'm responsible for ensuring that I effectively and efficiently manage my workload.
• Successfully organise, plan and problem solve to be able to progress my schedule in order to deliver at pace and meet deadlines.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

• Established and led a new internal support team assisting both existing departments, as well as newly acquired companies brought into the portfolio.
• Managed diverse team dynamics and ways of working, building a supportive, high performing, collaborative culture.
• Directed the allocation of support to better streamline budgets, reducing external design costs.
• I worked with internal stakeholders to make effective decisions on assessing the needs of priority brands, fulfilling briefs whilst maintaining successful workflow burndowns and saving budgets.Brands: All brand.

Bath, England, United Kingdom

• Brands: N-Photo, Digital Camera Magazine, Digital Photographer, Photography Week, Professional Photography Magazine, Photoshop Creative, Practical Photoshop
• Managed a portfolio of 7 brands, and mentored 6 designers and art editors within the portfolio, creating and maintaining consistent, high level visual design standards and specifications.

Bath, England, United Kingdom

• Brands: Brands: net, Generate, Computer Arts, Total Film, Digital Camera Magazine, N-Photo, SFX, Practical Photoshop, Science Uncovered
• Worked across many diverse brands providing brand specific creative solutions.
• Used CSS and HTML to create visually interesting, interactive content for ipad editions.
• Managed the event design collateral for Generate events, including posters, flyers, T-Shirts, signage, programs, website banners and social media graphics.

Bath, England, United Kingdom

Brands: net, Computer Arts

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

As Art Editor of Photoshop Creative, I was in charge of project managing the layout, design and social media creative content. I was responsible for designing and laying out creative covers, DVD covermounts and promotional marketing collateral each issue, while working to multiple deadlines. During my time on the magazine we won the Imagine Publishing.

Bristol, United Kingdom

As a Deputy Art Editor I was responsible for producing creative magazine layouts, including covermount booklets, DVD's and promotional design. I maintained the overall look and feel of two monthly women's consumer magazines and ensured that their layouts and visual elements worked as effectively as possible and were produced to deadline. My role included.

Bath, United Kingdom

Successfully designed for numerous clients and set pages across five city magazines, meeting multiple deadlines.The main objective was to promote and advertise specific brands in order to cultivate revenue and boost sales, giving the brands high end appeal whilst also reinforcing existing brand values, through innovative design.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Key achievement: Efficiently completed 90% of the department backlog, independently reducing order status from 7 weeks to 1 week.

I was the first point of call for all client and corporate queries. In addition, I was responsible for retouching, colour correcting and enhancing all client images to a high standard and contemporary aesthetic. I created Illustration and Artwork to client specification. Key Achievements: Maintained 70% of the digital production and reduced the turnaround.

Working to a tight client brief during my work experience at Direct Brands, I produced and designed a marketing brochure & website for their new product. The project work also included all research, photography, illustration, layout, typography, design and print.

During my work experience at UPP Press, while studying for my Masters Degree in Publishing, I successfully led a small team in the production, design, layout and print of various publications as well as copywriting and editing content.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

• Managed the diary and organised the calendar of the Head of School
• Took minutes at fast-paced high-profile board meetings, transcribed and shared minutes
• Booked flights and travel for the Head of School, stakeholders, and delegates
• Designed appropriate email communication to represent, and sent on behalf of, the Head of School
• Managed multiple projects on behalf of the Head of School

Ma Publishing: Merit, Publishing, Editorial, Marketing, Design

Activities and Societies: Typography, Illustration, Graphic Design, Layout Design, Publishing, Copywriting, Magazines, Photography, Film.

Ba Media 2:1, Media, Communication, Design, Photography, Video

Activities and Societies: Media, Fashion, Photography, Video, Film, Lomography, Scanography, Cinematography, Graphic Design, Layout.

3 A Levels: A - C, Media Studies, Sociology, Art & Design

Activities and Societies: Photography, Cinematography, Textiles, Fashion, Art, Design, Architecture, Environment