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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for executing master brand-led marketing and communications across print and digital including ATL marketing, TVC's and OOH advertising and art directing stills and video.My role has also included the re-branding of the Lifestyle Communities creative and overseeing the roll out of the new look and feel across new and developing communities. Providing creative strategy across campaigns and new project brands. Leading the creative vision and delivery of launch materials for all new community launches.

North Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Print Design Manager at Australian fashion retailer Cotton On. Responsible for the design and running of the art studio producing all printed marketing assets.

Melbourne And Sydney

Freelance creative director and designer working with in house fashion brands - Cotton On and agencies: Clemenger - Myer, Plump & Spry, Mahlab. Providing content strategy, design and art direction across digital/social channels, print publications, POS and packaging. Specializing in retail campaigns and art direction.

Sydney, Australia

Creative Director at BauerWorks Australia working with retail/fashion clients Westfield and Myer. Producing a multichannel content strategy and brand re-development across both brands. Including re-branding the award winning magazines - Emporium for Myer and W Style Magazine for Westfield.

Melbourne, Sydney

Freelance design and art direction services working with London client August Media, art directing interior photo shoots in Asia and Australia for Ikea. Sydney clients included: Lifehouse, Two in a Million, BauerWorks: working on brand strategy and custom magazine re-designs for Myer, Telstra, Ford and WeightWatchers. Consultancy work included creative direction, developing and presenting pitches at BauerWorks all of which had successful results in securing contracts, these included; Westfield, Big W, Lorna Jane, Telstra, AIM and AWU.

London, United Kingdom

Design and art direction working on interior magazine 'live' for Ikea. A very involved project with a print run of over 30 million, going to 22 countries in 25 languages. My role involved design across the magazine, bringing product based pages to life and shooting lifestyle/interior photography traveling across Europe, Asia and Australia meeting and photographing ikea fans and their homes.

London, United Kingdom

Employed to redesign 'The Ecologist Magazine' an iconic environmental magazine with a 30 year legacy to relaunch as a more contemporary and accessible title.

London, United Kingdom

Design and art direction of ethical fashion supplement for the Esthetica show at London Fashion Week. Responsible for the overall creative vision of the supplement as well as art directing the covers and fashion stories.

London, United Kingdom

My role was to art direct the customer magazine 'Inspire' for Lakeside shopping centre. This included shooting fashion and beauty stories as well as season product pages. I also worked across other titles designing pages for ASOS and LighterLife magazine and working on pitches.

London, United Kingdom

Whilst working at Beach I was responsible for the design and art direction of 'Junior Pregnancy & Baby magazine' a glossy parenting title. This included the design of promotional material including posters and handbooks.

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

Design and art direction across 3 monthly interior and architectural titles: FX, idFX and FMX magazines. This role included art directing covers, commissioning portrait photography and illustration. I was also responsible for the design of exhibition space at industry events and the brand development and design of marketing material for the FX International Interior Design Awards hosted annually by FX.

Bachelor Of Design, Graphic Design

Vce