Since December 2003 I have worked as a freelance designer and artworker for both in-house studios and advertising agencies. Work undertaken covers a wide range of design and artwork, including corporate and product brochures, book design and artwork, government publications, reports, financial services literature, brand guidelines, exhibition stands, conference graphics, point-of-sale, packaging, large catalogue projects, stationery and identities, merchandise, press and online advertising, Keynote and Powerpoint presentations, website and email design, online and interactive documents.
- In-depth knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud (particularly InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat)
- Wide-ranging knowledge of other software, including Powerpoint, Keynote, Wordpress, Dreamweaver, Muse, Edge
- Many years of experience as a creative artworker; attention to detail, accurate work produced to tight deadlines
- extensive experience of Photoshop retouching and comping from book design work and packaging, including beauty and haircare range retouching and complex comping from renders for computer games packaging and POS
- Extensive experience as a brand guardian, ensuring consistent tone-of-voice and implementation of guidelines
- Very strong written and spoken language and communication skills
- Native English speaker; basic level German
- Experience in project and workflow management; high-grade file naming convention and file structure organisational skills
- Production experience; liaison across departments and with external suppliers; personnel management
- Technical/IT ability with Apple Macs and experience of working on Windows machines
