Welcome to my Portfolio
Highly skilled and organised Graphic Designer with more than 8 years of experience and learning in Graphic Design, I have been studying graphic designs since 2015 and I graduated in 2020 with a degree in Graphic Design and Visual Communication. Since graduating I have developed my skills and experiences creating designs and completing projects for friends, family and customers. I hope to continue studying and learning, and have looked into studying my masters, online and part time whilst working.
As well as Graphic Design education, I have 15 years of Administrative and Customer Service Experience. I am accustomed to working well with others and known for developing excellent working relationships with colleagues, senior management, customers, and stake holders. Skilled at planning, coordinating, and promoting a variety of events, resulting in accomplished goals and committed to continually learning and advancing my knowledge in all areas and developments in new technology.
Final Year Uni Work 2020
Children's Alphabet Book
As part of my final project a created an alphabet book for children. Each letter of the Alphabet was represented by an animal native to the UK. I designed and created a book as part of my final submission.
University Dissertation
My final Dissertation at University focused on Gender and it's representation in popular Culture and how this had changed in the era of #MeToo.
After writing my 10,000 word dissertation I used this, and photos I had taken to designed a publication style layout.
The idea of the photos I took as part of this project, was to show that people are much more than the Gender they choose to portray; they are also friends, partners, mothers, fathers, husbands and wives.
A.R.E.S
One of the Doctors I work with wanted a Logo Design for a course he was running for Emergency Clinicians. The course "Advanced Resuscitation Emergency Skill" was shortened to the anacronym "A.R.E.S"
The name immediately stood out as the Greek God of War - Ares - so the the first area I researched was the myth and symbology of the God of War. I began creating my design by drawing helmets, spears, shields and using the colour theme that is most associated with - Red and Gold. Although a good starting point I quickly dropped the idea as it felt to obvious and cliched, as well as not indicating what "A.R.E.S" was - was it a clinical course (which apart from the name has nothing to do with Roman Myth) or something else?
I met with my colleague again to really understand what it was he wanted (a very modern, clean, logo) and created different types to use for the name. I began by adding an arrow or spear to the type - to create some moment, drama and to keep the link to the original symbology, but quickly dropped the symbology altogether; let the type be the main focus. Finally I added a heartbeat over the top of the type to link it back to medicine and health, this was changed from a 'generic type' of heartbeat, to be a much more realistic representation of a heartbeat on an ECG to be instantly recognisable to Doctors and Clinicians seeing the logo.
I changed the colours to be a very dark blue and 'Blood Red' (Hex Code: #8a0303) and added "Advanced Resuscitation Emergency Skills" underneath in the same Red colour as the Heartbeat.
Christmas Poster 2021
I was requested to design a poster to enhance a display of Christmas Products at a store in Canterbury.
The manager at the store explained that he wanted "12 Days of Christmas" but that he was happy to leave the interpretation up to me. As this was quite a late request I didn't feel that I would be able to do the 12 Days of Christmas enough credit and create something well enough that I would be happy to have hung in a store.
Instead I created a list of common symbology and references to Christmas. I came up with the following list:
Christmas Puddings; Christmas Crackers; Christmas Trees; Snowmen; Christmas Presents; Holly and Ivy; Gingerbread; Candles; Baubles; Snowflakes; Santa; Christmas Lights and Christmas Stockings;
I sketched some basic images of these, to give me an idea of what I wanted them to look like and then created them digitally, and laid them out on a 4 x 4 grid. I simplified some of the images - instead of Santa I just had a Santa Hat - and once I'd laid out the design felt that the Christmas Crackers were too simple and a bit to 'cartoony' so removed them. I also added 4 phrases associated with Christmas.
I completed this design quite quickly - about 2 weeks from request to delivery and delivered the final design by the end of November, it was hung in the store for the month of December.
Alone Together: University Project to combat Loneliness
In my second year at University I was given a brief "Alone Together"
Following research I leant that young people often feel the loneliest - despite common understanding that older or elderly people are often the loneliest . Young people often feel loneliest at 18/19 years of age when there is big life changes - they've finished school, often started university and moved away from home, their family, friends and are living by themselves for the first time.
Looking at how Universities can help students and young people navigate these changes I noticed that - although Unions have societies and clubs - these often focused on sports and/or drinking, excluding those who don't like sports, are unable to participate in sports and who don't drink. I wanted to create a a system of support where students could come together without sports or drinking - so I created 'Tea Clubs' and built and photographed a sculpture which could be used to advertise the club.
This was my final piece - a sculpture of a teapot and mugs, with tissue and crepe paper which represent water pouring out of the teapot into the tea mugs. Fabric teabags were also hung on the sculpture, filled with dried lavender. The idea for this was that it could be used as a advert for 'tea-clubs' and used during tea clubs as a focus or discussion point.
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