Skills
•
Fluent in Dutch and English, good basic German
•
• Mac OS9/OSX • Windows
• Illustrator • InDesign
• Quark •
•
Photoshop • DreamWeaver
• Acrobat •
PowerPoint • iWork
•
Graphic Design Employment History
05.07–
current Usborne Publishing, EC1N
Designer
Duties
include
•
Designing brochures, posters and other marketing
materials
for
Usborne's Dutch, French, Italian and
Spanish
markets.
03.07–
04.07 Pomegranate Design London, EC1
Designer
Duties
included
•
Designing identities; direct mail; posters;
brochures;
stationery;
websites; e-shots
for
various clients.
12.06–
02.07 Freelance design projects, London
Including
•
Drayton Park Primary School Identity design for a large
playground
regeneration project and design of supporting
printed
materials; behaviour certificates; thank you notes
•
Agitprop Design Involvement in logo, letterhead, garment
prints
and stitching designs for high-end fashion company;
update
international real estate website; developing new
American
Express
website
07.06–
11.06 Henrion Ludlow Schmidt, London SW1W
Junior
Designer
Duties
included
•
Working on a comprehensive identity guidelines project
for a large international investment bank
•
Designing example visuals
•
Detailing guidelines for layouts, type and visuals for
a
range of applications,
including stationary, literature, presentations, office
documents and internet
•
Sourcing images for brochure covers
•
Brochure typesetting and layouts
•
Preparing PowerPoint presentations
06.05 – 07.06 Pomegranate Design London,
EC1
Junior
Designer & Studio Administrator
Junior
Designer role included:
•
Design – concepts to completion: for websites; corporate identities;
brochures; templates; vouchers; flyers
•
Conduct and analyse research for a pojects and pitches
•
Update client websites using CMS (text, images, PDFs)
•
Create presentations (pitches; workshops; concepts)
•
Account management
•
Checking work before sending to printers
Studio
Administrator role included:
•
Prepare project cost estimates
•
Obtain print quotes
•
Invoice clients (using Sage)
•
Send promotional brochures
•
Banking: Invoice clients (using Sage); pay suppliers
•
Oversee studio calendar and keep track of all projects
04.05 – 05.05 JohnsonTurnbull
Graphic Design, London EC1
Graphic
Design work experience
Duties
included
•
Creative assistance on various InDesign documents
Education
01.05
– 10.05 •
University of the Arts London
London
College of Communication
Graduate
Certificate in Design for Visual Communication
Result:
Distinction
10.97 – 07.00 •
London Guildhall University
(now
London Metropolitan University)
BA
(Honours) Communications & AV Production Studies
First
year with Design Studies
Result:
2:1
10.96 – 07.97
• Canterbury College
GNVQ
Media - Advanced
First
Year Report: Distinction
10.90 – 07.96
•
Scholengemeenschap Twickel Hengelo, The Netherlands
Athenaeum Diploma: Dutch, English, History, Geography,
Maths,
Biology, Art, 5th year certificate: Economy and Law
Interests
•
Music (playing cello and guitar in a band)
• Organising club-nights and DJ-ing
• Cycling (on my big Dutch bike with
basket)
• Films (especially if they are both
funny and touching)
• Art (painting, visiting galleries and
museums)
• Bunnies (in the park, in the vegetable
patch, in the city farm)