KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Traffic Management.

• Design engaging packaging concepts.

• Deliver product illustrations.

• Produce technical drawings.

• Produce high-quality artwork.

• Devise actionable solutions.

• Expert in Adobe Creative Suite.

• Client centred approach.

• Gather and analyse information.

• Proactive problem solving.

• Exemplary communication skills.

• Key team player.

• Can work independently or as a team.

• Plan and organise tasks.

• Prioritise workloads efficiently.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

• Traffic Managing a studio of up to four artworkers.

• Developed a comprehensive understanding of packaging design and production, conceptualising and producing innovative packaging ideas and artwork (Freelance Creative Artworker).

• Produced artwork for an entire rebrand of all current packaging (Creative Artworker).

• Enhanced large format print concepts, understanding diverse substrates (Senior Creative Artworker).

• Produced and implemented innovative window display concepts (Senior Creative Artworker).

CAREER SUMMARY

APS Group

July 2022 - April 2024

Senior Creative Artworker/Traffic Manager (Remote)

• Producing a range of print-ready artwork for a specific blue-chip account.

• Re-branding layouts within corporate guidelines.

• Traffic managing workflow within a studio team.

• Assign and monitor tasks to completion.

• Creating new layouts within brand guidelines.

Boots UK

June 2022 (1 month)

Freelance Retoucher​ (Remote)

• Clipping and Retouching a range of product images, with pack images included for Web.

TCC global

November 2021 - February 2022 (4 months)

Freelance Senior Artworker (Hybrid)

• TCC is the world’s leading provider of retail loyalty.

• Produced print-ready artwork for use in various packaging projects including, use and Care labels and swing tags.

APS Group

August 2021 - November 2021 (4 months)

Freelance Senior Creative Artworker (Remote)

• Produced artwork for a re-branded range of forms and literature for a financial company merger.

• Creating new layouts within a templated structure.

Freelance

July 2020 - June 2022 (2 years)

Freelance Senior Creative Artworker (Remote)

• Producing artwork for a number of clients.

• Building strong client relationships, maintaining trust and delivering advice on all aspects of artwork.

Go Travel

November 2012 - July 2020 (8 years)

Full-time Creative Artworker

• Progressed from a freelance position to permanent employment, following diligent execution of tasks.

• Re-branded packaging, providing all artwork, producing engaging concepts and technical specification sheets.

• Created and delivered technical drawings and packaging mock-ups, interpreting concepts on paper.

• Produced a technical specification drawing from final idea, sending to the factory to make plain samples, assessing and approving final factory testers prior to mass production.

• Created web banners, utilising library imagery and company fonts, producing engaging and innovative headers to the correct pixel dimensions to promote key products.

• Oversaw the production of lifestyle and product images, directing the retouching, colour matching pathing and archiving of new images annually for new products.

• Produced illustrations for leaflets and labels, creating product line drawings from inception, using product photos or observing the actual item.

• Provided the artwork for annual exhibitions.

Freelance

August 2011 - August 2012 (1 year)

Creative Artworker

• Provided press and underground advertising for EasyJet, working for VCCP adhering to strict timeframes.

• Instrumental in producing corporate literature and brochure, retouching and amending as needed. Working for April-Six, and assisted in creating corporate literature for Princess Trust, enabling major alterations to be made to the annual reports.

• Designed and completed artwork on exhibition displays for Crown Business Communications, and advertising for Regus, adhering to all time frames and corporate standards.

• Undertook a contract with Arcadia, developing large in-store POS graphics for Dorothy Perkins: UK and international stores, interpreting designer visuals to establish final artwork.

• Altered copy and retouched film release graphics and POS, for the film / entertainment industry, displayed in cinemas, underground stations, magazines and newspapers.

• Created print and web artwork for current game platforms, covering packaging, manual covers, box inlays, posters and pop-up banners, working for SEGA.

• Designed and created artwork for a Kurt Geiger window display, implemented in all London stores, subsequently asked to work on other large retail projects.

Durrant Wapshott

August 2006 - August 2011 (5 years)

Full-time Creative Artworker

• Produced artwork on a variety of high-profile retail projects, working with HMV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Timberland,
  Waterstone’s and Liberty.

• Built and nurtured strong client relationships, negotiating briefs and maintaining consistent communications, delivering focused advice on substrates.

• Built a team of 3 artworkers.

• Managed all daily operations within the artwork studio, assigning and monitoring tasks, collating artwork to meet designated deadlines, sharing knowledge and best practice with colleagues.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

• 1 year, Intelligent Marketing. London (Full-time In House Artworker).

• 2 years, Pindar. Aylesbury (Full-time Creative Artworker / Typesetter).

• 3 years, Systemax Europe. Uxbridge (Full-time Catalogue Manager & Artworker).

• 5 years, Parlour Wood Creative Communications. London (Full-time Creative Artworker / Retoucher).