Claire Wade Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Newcastle-under-Lyme, England, United Kingdom

• Development of brand strategy and brand guidelines
• Setting design and brand standards for internal and external collateral
• Corporate web-site design
• Product UX design for eCommerce checkout and merchant portal
• Design and delivery of corporate print and digital materials
• Design and delivery of video content (explainer videos, reels, corporate videos)

• Development of brand guidelines
• Setting design and brand standards for internal and external collateral
• Corporate web-site design
• Product UX design for eCommerce checkout and merchant portal
• Design and delivery of corporate print and digital materials
• Planning, design and delivery of CRM Email campaigns via MailChimp/ Force24 delivering inbound leads and eCommerce sales exceeding £1m in 2020

Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire

• Development of brand guidelines
• Setting design and brand standards for internal and external collateral
• Corporate web-site design
• Design and delivery of corporate print and digital materials

Knutsford, United Kingdom

• Design for education, recruitment, and supply chain/logistics sectors
• Pitching to new clients, collaboration with clients and translating briefs into creative designs
• Photography direction
• Manage proofing of all outgoing artwork of all designers to ensure high quality work before it went to print
• Organising production meetings
• Print design including: prospectuses, yearbooks, brochures, advertising, flyers, leaflets, exhibition banners and other marketing materials

Knutsford, Cheshire

Staffordshire

• Collaborated with the sales team to create visually pleasing, functional and user friendly websites for UK businesses and organisations
• Enhanced, edited and improved product, portrait and wedding photography
• Managed clients through email, on the phone or face-to-face, translating their requirements and ideas into a successful product
• Liaised with the web developers to deliver fully operational sites before they went live

Stoke On Trent

• Responsible for end to end design, management and delivery of major projects and long term contracts
• Managed junior and temporary staff
• Organised suppliers, obtaining competitive print quotes and ensured delivery on time
• Excelled in layout for a monthly 32-page diocesan newspaper, arranging news and features from schools and parishes, regular columns, advertisements and announcements. Checking news items for grammar, often re-writing.
• Highly skilled in turning around jobs very quickly
• Designed various 64-page monthly magazines sourcing images from stock and high art sites, created ads for in-house products and external clients.

Keen to develop my portfolio and gain experience I took on extra design work in my own time, working on collectors’ magazines, in-box brochures, packaging and the company price list.

Stoke On Trent

• Digitally edited and prepared for print high quality stylised and customised portraits
• Collaborated with the photographers to produce creative ideas
• Exceptionally careful attention to detail was required to remove even minute imperfections as customers favoured very large images
• Exceeded in reducing the turnaround time for sending portraits to the lab from four weeks to a few days within the first few months following appointment
• Developed group tutorials, trained staff on Photoshop and Photodex to create promotional shows with a greater ‘wow’ factor
• Completed advanced Photoshop courses

Stoke On Trent

• Designed posters, flyers, large outdoor banners, menus, leaflets, booklets and business cards for pubs, restaurants and nightclubs.
• Prepared all projects for print, working closely with Print Production
• Liaised directly with clients

Stoke On Trent

• Worked within a small busy design studio for a market leading collectable giftware company
• Developed fresh, innovative packaging designs and POS from concept to final artwork on time and within budget whilst liaising with Far Eastern suppliers
• Designed namecards, price lists, order pads, sales sheets, monthly retailer newsletters, created collectors’ club materials and aided in the design of magazines.
• Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously
• Worked to tight deadlines
• Directed professional shoots at photography studios, buying props in advance if required, organising products for presenter shots