I have been a graphic designer for 14 years, working as part of a team and studio with the Met Office, Devon Carers and Westbank in Exminster, The DCUK company and Paignton Zoo, as well as freelance for many companies and organisations, such as AEA England, Ron Campion Furnishers, the School of Natural Skincare, Linda Cruse and the Race4Good, The Flavel Theatre in Dartmouth, and Dart Sails and Covers. I am experienced in using Adobe Creative Cloud, and have worked with Wordpress, HTML, CSS, video editing and photography. I love working on lettering, calligraphy and watercolour illustration too.…

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I have been a graphic designer for 14 years, working as part of a team and studio with the Met Office, Devon Carers and Westbank in Exminster, The DCUK company and Paignton Zoo, as well as freelance for many companies and organisations, such as AEA England, Ron Campion Furnishers, the School of Natural Skincare, Linda Cruse and the Race4Good, The Flavel Theatre in Dartmouth, and Dart Sails and Covers. I am experienced in using Adobe Creative Cloud, and have worked with Wordpress, HTML, CSS, video editing and photography. I love working on lettering, calligraphy and watercolour illustration too.…

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I have been a graphic designer for 14 years, working as part of a team and studio with the Met Office, Devon Carers and Westbank in Exminster, The DCUK company and Paignton Zoo, as well as freelance for many companies and organisations, such as AEA England, Ron Campion Furnishers, the School of Natural Skincare, Linda Cruse and the Race4Good, The Flavel Theatre in Dartmouth, and Dart Sails and Covers.

I am experienced in using Adobe Creative Cloud, and have worked with Wordpress, HTML, CSS, video editing and photography. I love working on lettering, calligraphy and watercolour illustration too.

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Skills

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Editorial Illustration
Le
Lettering
Lo
Logo
Po
Poster
Br
Branding
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Experience Level

Editorial Illustration
Expert
Lettering
Expert
Logo
Expert
Poster
Expert
Branding
Expert
Infographic
Expert
Greetings Card
Expert
Illustration
Intermediate
Book Illustration
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Education

BA (Hons) Graphic Communication with Typography at University of Plymouth
November 9, 2023 - June 30, 2009
2:1
MA Graphic Design at University of Falmouth
January 31, 2023
Merit

Qualifications

CREATIVE CONSCIENCE BRONZE AWARD
October 1, 2022
I won this award for a piece called Nature Journal, a journal designed for children to interact with nature and art, to help encourage good mental health practices and mindfulness.
MET OFFICE AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE: INNOVATION AWARD - NOMINATION AND INSTANT RECOGNITION AWARD
April 30, 2014 - April 30, 2014
I worked within a group with scientists and UX designers on a risk and probability project looking at the web and app forecasts and how to make them more understandable to the public.

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education, Healthcare, Non-Profit Organization, Retail
    uniE621 Empowering Women
    This work was for my final project at Falmouth University. I am interested in graphic design as a tool for helping and empowering people, using visual culture to get messages across and to educate and inform. For this project, I looked into feminism, women’s rights, and how the visual culture for this has changed over the last 150 years. I designed a kit for a workshop, helping women to empower themselves. The workshop structure used different techniques to help the women talk about issues they may face, and how they can empower themselves and others to help in the struggle for women’s rights.…
    uniE621 Paignton Zoo
    I worked at Paignton Zoo for over a year working on several different projects, below are a few examples of the pieces I worked on. https://www.twine.net/signin…
    uniE621 Nature Journal
    This is a piece I have designed for a project for my Masters Degree. I designed a journal for children, with a set of activity cards, which help get children outside and in nature, suggesting activities to connect them to the outdoors, and to their thoughts and feelings. The idea is to create a fun way to enable children to learn about nature and mindfulness, in the hope that we can equip children with the skills and techniques to help improve their mental health as they grow. https://www.twine.net/signin…
    uniE621 Mother and Child
    I designed and painted these for my Sunshine and Shenanigans store. The Mother & Child prints are based on the Motherhood Celtic knot, the father print is based on the family knot, and the love print is based on the love knot. I enjoy bringing nature into my personal work, and all of these are inspired by being outside in nature. All are hand-painted in watercolours. https://www.twine.net/signin…
    uniE621 Full Moons
    A set of full moon prints, based on the names given to each full moon by different cultures and traditions. A round watercolour painting depicting each full moon. I love the moon, and enjoyed working on these, researching the different names and seasons, and how each moon gets its name. https://www.twine.net/signin…
    uniE621 Devon Carers Magazine
    I have worked with Devon Carers for 10 years, helping with their branding, marketing, print and web design. We recently re-designed the newsletter to fit in with the website branded, with the use of circles as a supporting graphic. Below are selected pages from the last years editions. I have also included the download links for the PDFs. https://www.twine.net/signin…
    uniE621 Westbank Daycare Centre
    Day Care Centre branding and leaflet design for Westbank Community Centre. I updated the whole design and branding for this service for Westbank. We picked a colourful, but calm and muted colour palette, and a more ‘grown-up’ typeface choice to emphasise the qualities and values of the Day Care service. https://www.twine.net/signin…
    uniE621 Carer Friendly Devon
    Devon Carers needed a new logo for their new initiative, Carer Friendly Communities. The idea is to get local businesses, organisations and companies to sign up, get information and training on how they can be aware and support carers, and the carers themselves can use these businesses etc. and get support, help and awareness. They asked me to design a new logo for the scheme – that stands out and is recognisable, but used the existing Devon Carers logo and branding. https://www.twine.net/signin…
    uniE621 School of Natural Skincare
    Designs, layouts and edits of textbooks, workbooks, blog imagery and course documents for an online Natural Skincare School.…
    uniE621 Essential Oils Direct branding
    I redesigned the logo, and helped with the branding, packaging, website and marketing for Essential Oils Direct. You can see the project here: https://www.twine.net/signin…
    uniE621 Devon Carers Magazines
    A quarterly magazine for Devon Carers organisation, I design the layout, illustrations and infographics, and source the imagery. You can see the whole project here: https://www.twine.net/signin graphicdesigner illustrator…
    uniE621 Ron Campion Furnishers Sleep Guide
    I designed the brochure for Ron Campion Furnishers Sleep Guide, advertising their bedroom furniture, beds and bedding ranges. You can see the whole project here: https://www.twine.net/signin…