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Charlotte in a few words
Based in Sheffield, UK, I am a graphic designer with specialisms in branding, identity, and illustration.
I have experience working on projects from concept
to completion, so I am familiar and able to work on all stages of the creative process.
I have worked in the industry for over 5 years, in-house and in agency, on a wide range of clients and projects.
I am a confident user or Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and PowerPoint, too!
Experience
- IMA-HOMEJunior DesignerPRESS & MEDIAJanuary 2021 - September 2022 (1 year and 9 months)Leeds, England, United KingdomIMA-HOME is a fully integrated marketing agency with a wide variety of global clients across a range of industries such as Adidas, Jet2, Royal Canin and Dr Oetker. The responsibilities in my role as Designer were:- Creating printed, digital and social assets for clients- Support on pitch & PowerPoint documents- Be able to follow guidelines- Strong Adobe CC user (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)- Produce a variety of outcomes for clients that fit the brief- Listen and apply feedback- Image retouching- Communicating ideas to directors and clients- Provide support for the new IMA-HOME brand roll-out and apply across social & internal documents
- Twinkl Educational PublishingDesign Development CoordinatorEDUCATION & E-LEARNINGApril 2018 - December 2021 (3 years and 8 months)Sheffield, England, United KingdomTwinkl is an educational publisher that provides resources for teachers to download directly from the website. I began as a Graphic Designer, and progressed to Design Development Coordinator. My responsibilities for this role included:- Know the Twinkl brand and how to apply it.- Provide design feedback and training to our team of 100+ designers.- Create and manage Photoshop Actions, CC Libraries, Paragraph and Object styles.- Develop and design resource templates.- Work within the scrum/agile framework.- Be a confident user of Adobe CC, Microsoft- Office and Google Slides, Sheets and Docs.- Creating marketing materials
- Boundary Mill StoresMarketing and Graphic Design CoordinatorRETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)August 2017 - April 2018 (8 months)Colne, England, United KingdomBoundary Mill is a chain of 5 large department stores across the UK. Here, I was a Marketing and Graphic Design Coordinator in a small team of 3. During this role, my responsibilities were:- Delivering marketing materials for seasonal in-store events- Digital campaigns- Creating POS for all stores- Producing A5 printed mailers for our customer database- Operate a vinyl cutter- Design, cut, back and apply vinyl signage across the store- Manage company social media accounts- Design and send weekly email newsletter.
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Education
- BA (Hons) Graphic DesignLeeds Arts University2017In 2017 I graduated from Leeds Arts University with a First Class Degree in Graphic Design. It was here where I developed a love of clean, vector design with a bold use of colour. I explored a range of subject matter throughout university, including branding, packaging and design for children, the latter being the main focus of my final year project.