WORK EXPERIENCE

MIDWEIGHT GRAPHIC Designer - PUBLICIS PRODUCTION/PRODIGIOUS

London, England

April 2024 - Present

Working in a design team consisting of static and motion designers we spent the majority of our time assisting the agency Saatchi & Saatchi with their design needs. Delivering many different campaigns for clients such as EE, Subway, Waitrose, John Lewis, and British Heart Foundation I’ve had a chance to work on projects at the creative developement stage all the way through to jumping on at the end to deliver the production of final assets.

Key highlights

• Developing ideas and taking control of the production of large Subway campaigns.

• Working on several EE campaigns such as Women’s Euros, phone launches and seeing work in the real world including stadium assets that were seen at Hampden Park.

• Being involved in the deisgn side of the Waitrose Christmas advert ‘Sweet Suspicion’.

MIDWEIGHT GRAPHIC Designer - TBWA/LONDON

London, England

April 2021 - April 2024

Working exclusively within the Nissan team I am responsible for a variety of assets and taken part in several campaigns. The work covers many mediums - from design and layout to digital artwork for banner sizes. I am expected to apply my layout skills to banner formats, the printed page and full screen motion graphics. I was hired specifically for my skills in animation, to input on how Nissan can improve things on the motion side - bringing to life banners, social posts, and on-screen graphics.

At TBWA I primarily work independently within a small team as well as work into a lead designer, with some oversight and direction from the creative team depending on the job. Day to day tasks can include laying out animated banner suites, exploring ideas brought to me by the creative team, working closely with the art director to develop and flesh out his ideas, laying out press ads for print and providing social assets.

Key highlights

• Working on the ‘Nissan Electrified Art’ metaverse project from start to finish. Helping the creative team develop ideas, produce digital assets and artworking all the billboards displayed throughout the country.

• Developing the look and feel of the ‘Nissan Electrification Event’ with the creative team. Animating the ‘spark’ across assets and having it align with the Nissan Qashqai TV ad as closely as possible.

• Producing all the assets for the ‘Good-to-Go’ campaign including many animations and the key visual. Was able to work with the photographer and creative leads closely to create a key visual used across all assets.

FREELANCE DIGITAL/GRAPHIC Designer

Melbourne, Australia & London, England

January 2020 - April 2021

Completed contracts with agencies TBWA and DDB Melbourne in Australia as well as multiple contracts with Babylon Health in London. I undertook various large-scale print and digital projects for world-renowned clients including Asahi and Nissan. I also worked consistently on conceptual projects and HTML5 banner suite development for Westpac Bank. Maintained effective correspondence and remained up-to-date with client developments by liaising with brand managers and attending meetings with various project teams. Collaborated with Creative Director and project team to support pitching opportunities. At Babylon Health I was tasked with assisting the motion designer with storyboards and asset creation, producing social media assets, creating brochures and laying out emails.

Key highlights

• Prepared and delivered roll-out of ‘Cool Ridge Water’ campaign – a very big project which overtook all
  OOH advertising at Melbournes largest train station, Southern Cross Station.

• Worked on several Westpac Digital Display banner suites whilst incorporating direction and guidelines
  provided by team leaders.

• Created storyboards and assets for the motion designer to assist in animating social posts.

Junior Graphic Designer - GDJ ADVERTISING

Melbourne, Australia

April 2018 - January 2020

Whilst in Melbourne I worked at a fast-paced advertising agency that substantially accelerated my design skills within graphics, digital, and motion design. Working alongside a design team of five and liaising regularly with Creative Directors, I produced animations and motion graphics for OOH advertising, digital, and social media assets. This honed my creative storytelling abilities and I was granted creative freedom to produce and edit videos for Facebook and Instagram. I also designed press ads, web and email layouts for desktop and mobile platforms, created prototype interactions with Adobe XD, and used Adobe Animate to produce HTML5 advertisements. 

Key highlights

• Produced final designs for Massey Ferguson New Zealand Brochure nationwide campaign.

• Played a significant role in motion design aspects for numerous, nationwide Mazda campaigns.