career history
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| 08,2007 - 05,2010 |
DESIGNER
NATIONAL GALLERY COMPANY, LONDON
- managed design team workload and mentored junior designer
- brand guardian, ensuring all materials produced in-house and externally by freelancers and licensees followed brand guidelines
- designed illustrated books and exhibition catalogues
- designed exhibition-related merchandise (diaries, calendars, stationery and accessories)
- designed retail signage, POS and packaging
- designed graphics for e-commcerce website and e-newsletter
- collaborated with visual merchadising team to produce large-scale graphics for seasonal shop changes and window displays
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| 10,2004 - 07,2006 |
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
THE SAVILE ROW COMPANY, LONDON
- maintained e-commerce website (designed homepage and landing pages, optimised product images)
- designed promotional banners and html e-newsletters
- coordinated website development with external e-commerce provider
- designed 48 page print catalogue (six issues per year)
- coordinated colour reproduction and printing of catalogue
- liaised with external advertising and PR agencies
- assisted in art direction at photo shoots
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| 06,2002 - 08,2004 |
COMMUNICATIONS CO-ORDINATOR, WEBSITES & GRAPHICS
CANADIAN EDUCATION CENTRE NETWORK, VANCOUVER
- updated multiple corporate websites
- designed marketing collateral (brochures, posters, advertisements)
- coordinated web content with 17 international and three national offices
- proofread and edited web copy to house style
- designed websites, microsites and web pages
- provided customer service support to clients of web-based products
- provided technical support to overseas staff in the use of the content-managed website
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freelance experience
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| 05,2007 - 08,2007 |
RIVER ISLAND CLOTHING COMPANY, LONDON
assisted web designer in optimising images for the web, designing banner ads and creating e-newsletters
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| 2002 - 2006 |
THEO DIGITAL GALLERY, NEW YORK
designed e-commerce website interfaces for art galleries
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| 2002 - 2004 | HORIZON ENTERTAINMENT, VANCOUVER
designed magazine advertisements for international film markets
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| 2003, 2004 | VANCOUVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL, VANCOUVER
designed official film program guide for 2003 and 2004 film festivals
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education
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| 05,2004 completion |
ASSOCIATE CERTIFICATE, DESKTOP PUBLISHING & GRAPHICS
BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, VANCOUVER
- part-time continuing education program
- courses completed: adobe creative suite, quarkxpress,
typography, graphics, layout, colour theory, prepress
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| 05,2000 graduation |
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER
- four-year full-time undergraduate program
- major studio arts, minor english literature
- achievements:
outstanding student initiative scholarship, 1996-2000
dean's honour list, 1996-2000
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