Amanda F. Email and Phone Number

After a long creative career all over Melbourne, client-side, and in different agency roles, I am still not tired of "doing" graphic design.For a long time, I've done a lot of different creative things. When I was 12 years old I illustrated a published book on how to grow coffee in Australia. When I was 18 years old I went to Design School because Mimmo Cozzolino and Neville Brody were my heroes. When I was 25 years old I got into Murdoch Magazines AWARD school in an attempt to follow in my mother's footsteps as a copywriter (on the back of her funny stories about palling around with Bani McSpedden in the 70s). In 1999 I managed a USA online tattoo and body art portal, answering teenagers' questions about piercing aftercare (!). We had 20,000 members and I received a cheque in the mail for $97.46 USD each month for paid advertising. I also designed and hosted a file transfer site for a UK design agency they described as their best "stress-buster". A few years back I helped a toy company organise their artwork so that instead of trawling through folders for seasonal product ranges, designers could access live brand assets directly from their creative software. I am still shocked they hadn't thought of this themselves and that they even hired me in the first place. I was not cut out to design toy packaging. I threw myself into multi-media at TAFE at one point, and I'm still proud of the shopping app I developed way before they were even "a thing" (possibly around 2013). I also learned to animate, make movies and games, and write code for an ATM user interface.BUT, although I've designed almost everything, from Christmas catalogs and record album covers, to e-commerce websites, in 2023 I found myself in a bit of a career hole. My skills started to atrophy and my attitude slipped to toxic levels. So of course, to fix this problem, I raced into a UX Design course. Unsurprisingly I didn't start a UX design career... but I did scale Maslow's pyramid second last level - an achievement in itself. No matter where you are in your career journey, I invite you to connect, chat, and share your ideas with me. We are all humans at different stages of this wonderful life, and you are always welcome in my LinkedIn space.