Steve Mo Email & Phone Number

Chandler’S Ford, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Started at B&Q in January 2019 as a freelance before joining permanently.Working for a busy creative studio team in the customer & digital department. Feeling proud in helping to produce the latest design materials for in-store projects, seasonal & non-seasonal campaigns, and publication materials.

Currently contracting at B&Q HQ, with most recent work for Hotel Chocolat, Williams Lea Tag, XYi Design and Game. I've been freelancing since 2004, which is a pretty long time! I'm a creative artworker specialised in packaging and print with good knowledge of special finishes, reprographics and print processes.My experiences expanding from a long list of design agencies and studios as a freelancer. Meeting amazing people along the way and hoping to continue to do so!

Basingstoke

Create weekly designs of the latest offers and new releases for UK biggest video gaming retailer within a fast turn around graphics studio. Work closely with trade marketing teams, the creative lead, providing the publishers their allocated promotional slots in-stores nationwide. My responsibilities here is managing the weekly workflow, design and provide the printers finished print-ready pdfs.

London, United Kingdom

An in-house design studio based in the heart of London. Predominately packaging design and artwork production roll-outs. Help with the branding of seasonal campaigns and artwork updates to the core packaging brands. Utilise special finishes and spot colours.

Regular freelance/contract basis for both UK and US teams on. Packaging design and artwork.

Uxbridge, London

Started as a freelancer for six months, I later became full time as a senior designer & creative artworker within the Games team. Huge product range for children, teen & family games such as Trivial Pursuit, Monopoly, Subbuteo, Cluedo, along with many other core products under MB games and Parker brands. My experiences at Hasbro has been broad and valuable which included project management and repro. My duties entailed design for packaging, implementation of pack concepts, roll-outs & localisation for European markets along-side repro ready artwork. Other brands include Action Man, Playdoh and Preschool products under the Hasbro umbrella.

An on-off freelance position. Property brochures design agency based in Windsor. Help with brochure design and artwork for the prestigious property sector. Page layouts, floor-plan illustrations and technical artwork with high-spec finish.

Wimbledon

My position here as a studio manager & creative artworker for a small but a fast-paced sales promotion agency. My job entailed a broader responsibility such as work-flow & studio resource management, production control & printer liaison, maintaining the hardware & software needs, design & technical artwork. Working along-side marketing teams on sales promotion for well known brands such as Yoplait, Birdseye, CarteDór, Danish Bacon, Président Emmental and Wall’s.

Putney, London

Designer, layout and technical artwork at a small repro company. The job consisted of design, artwork and repro – seeing jobs through from start to finish, clients and printer liaison. I gained valuable experience on Photoshop retouching, print requirements and reprographics knowledge.

Putney, London

Worked as a junior designer. Job included layout and artwork on Apple Mac, working for blue chip clients in the financial corporate reports and investment sector.

Guildford, United Kingdom

The sole in-house graphic designer - the job consisted of all aspects of work for Lonsdale Street fashion such as T-shirt design, brochures and sales promotions.

Ba (Hons), Graphic Design

B-Tec National Diploma, Graphic Design