Steve Rayner Email & Phone Number

Tetbury, Gloucestershire

Responsible for the management of the 'Design and Branding' department which includes the creative and artworking for many different project types for a multiple 'Award Winning' Cotswold's based product design and manufacturing company. Alongside the Marketing and Sales Managers we produce a huge variety of Marketing materials including Leaflets, Flyers, Brochures, Catalogues, Posters, Exhibitions graphics and all types of digital assets. In addition I am fully responsible for the design and development of a multitude of packaging requirements with a specific focus on brand awareness. Responsibilities also include creative design and asset creation for all our Web Sites and e-marketing campaigns. During busy periods I am also responsible for booking additional resources for the department - this includes the management of a part-time design assistant and freelancers.Very proud of the recent work I produced for National Trust in order to successfully achieve a licensing deal. I also handle the liason and artwork requirements for our major key accounts such as M&S / Aldi / RSPB / National Trust and Laura Ashley; also includes large garden centre chains such as Wyevale and Dobbies. In addition I have recently completed an exciting Website development project for Simon King (The well known photographer/presenter and naturalist) as part of which I also handle all his branded assets for digital and printed marketing.

Cirencester, United Kingdom

Responsible for the creation and artworking of many different project types for a variety of global, national and local companies. Working alongside the Creative Director we handled many differing types of Marketing materials including design for Logo, Stationery, Leaflets, Brochures, and Exhibition Graphics. Also handled the asset provision for many corporate shows in UK and overseas which would involve the provision of many graphic pieces from small signs to large stage sets. Working closely with the Web developer we also provided the creative for Web Sites, Emails and Social Media banners.Accomplishments...As well as the London events we supplied (for the same global company) exhibition graphics for their 2016 Paris show. I also designed and built (alongside the web developer) several full E-commerce web sites. I also designed and produced box-artwork for a global software company for a one-off show in New York. They were very pleased with the quality and speed of turnaround of this project. Intel are now interested in purchasing the rights for this project.

Cheltenham

Senior Designer/Art editor for ARCHANT publishing working on a variety of National titles including France, Discover Britain, Living France, Turning Pro (photography), Cotswold Life and more. At this time was also asked to Design and Artwork a number of one-off Bookazine titles inc. The Royal Wedding, 2012 Year of Sport, Best of Britain, Wild Travel and more. Was also utilised by the marketing team where I was asked to design Exhibition and Marketing Graphics for my titles - as well as creating Calendars and web-banners. At this time also given the opportunity to work on a state of the art Content Management System uploading and managing all the assets.One of my main achievements included handling the 'redesign'​ of Wild Travel. This included identifying a new set of smart and versatile fonts that would allow us increased flexibility with layout; more specifically on the cover and opening spreads. All sections of the mag were restyled with even more attention given to the selection of images. This involved generally using fewer images overall, but displaying them a slightly less cluttered way which hopefully increases their impact. All of the elements on the pages were given more room to breathe, whilst also attempting to embrace as much 'white space'​ as possible. This wasn't a straightforward exercise considering the page area was also being reduced as well.Before this I successfully redesigned the overall look of Heritage including handling the mast head change to 'Discover Britain' in the middle of the year. I also designed 3 supplements I was able to balance my duties with Heritage to also design and produce 4 bookazines and a calendar during the 12 month period. All of these titles were created from scratch with a new look and feel given to each.

Cheltenham

Responsible for the Design and artwork of a variety of national monthly magazines tiles. My role involved the management of a small team of artworker and freelancers in order to bring 5 monthly titles to press every month. Also responsible for the initial branding and graphic styling through to the everyday layout and production duties and ensuring that we were always on target for the different monthly deadlines. I also worked on a variety of side projects such as Exhibitions, Bookazines, Media Packs and Subscription Marketing. All this work was produced with great speed and accuracy and utilised all current standard Design software. I was regularly asked to work across platforms in assisting other magazine teams in the Archant portfolio where I was able to utilise my ability to work under pressure.

Cheltenham

For 10 years supplied high-quality Artwork and Print services to an impressive number of businesses in Gloucestershire and the surrounding area. Totally responsible for liaising with clients and printers in order to meet many tough deadlines. Also heavily involved in the day to day demands of running a small business. In addition for a 4-year period the workload increased to the point where we had 1 or 2 additional staff members in the team. They were junior Artworker roles but they were given the opportunity to work across a wide variety of projects.

Cheltenham

Provided Design and Artwork skills to a small marketing and publishing house in Cheltenham. The 'core' product was a simple but clever folding product leaflet that when minimised would fit into a wallet at credit card size. We also produced our own retail version that was available to purchase throughout the Uk. I was also responsible for handling all marketing and promotion graphics for the company including brochures, point of sale etc. I also liaised with all clients and print companies.

Bristol

Responsible for producing high-quality advertising visuals at great speed and accuracy. Artwork responsibilites also included in role. Freehand and Photoshop software used on Mac. Prior to 1994 all work produced by hand using traditional techniques.