Experience

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  Marriott International

  • Senior Graphic Designer EMEA

    • Jul 2023 - Present

  • Senior Graphic Designer

    • Aug 2017 - Jul 2023

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  Media24 (Pty) Ltd

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Senior Layout Artist

    • Apr 2015 - Jul 2017
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Duties:• Conceptualise and provide design solutions for editorial layouts. • Design pages and special supplements as per requirements of the art director.• Work closely with the editorial team to ensure that visuals support and enhance the story for a cohesive overall design.• Ensure all deadlines are met.• Ensure all retouching is of the quality required by the magazine.• Conduct final checks on layouts and export layouts to print ready PDFs. • Assist the art director on any other aspects of the magazine layout and design, such as briefing, retouching, making PDFs and liaising with the factory.• Ensure publication complies visually and in design with international standards.

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  Exigent Group Limited

  • Design Team Leader

    • Aug 2010 - Mar 2015

    As a leader in a senior role, providing training to junior and mid-weight designers on the importance of brand loyalty; executing through guidelines, layouts, templates and style sheets. Responsible for developing and creating both digital and print designs for a wide range of print and online marketing materials, publications and advertising for International Law Firms.Duties:• Managing, producing and designing projects from brief to fulfilment.• Designing and creating marketing and e-marketing materials on a range of projects.• Ensuring consistency in a clients corporate and promotional brands.• Presenting finalised ideas and concepts to clients, colleagues and studio manager.• Answering queries from clients.• Creating original artwork for short and long term projects.• Involved in designing advertisements, brochures, handouts, flyers and online graphics.• Working with a range of media, including photography, to create final artwork.• Designing pitches and presentations for the partners, legal directors, senior associates, associates and solitors for new business to corporate companies.• Keeping up to date with new software, post-production techniques and industry trends.• Producing illustrations/graphic content for page layouts, email designs, site graphics,static and flash banners.• Producing promotional artwork from concept to finish.

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  Imvusa Publishing

  • Senior Graphic Designer

    • 2008 - 2010

    My responsiblity was to develop, design and create four magazines (i.e. African Safaris, The Cup, Mother&Child and Moeder&Klueter) executed through guidelines, layouts, templates and style sheets.Duties:• Working closely with the Editor to produce the end product for the different articles in the magazines.• Designing and creating advertisements and advertorials.• Ensuring consistency through out the four different magazines.• Answering queries from clients.• Keeping up to date with new mediums for creating new and fresh ideas for the magazine.• Archiving all editions, images, graphics and illustrations.• Picture sourcing from all relevant picture libraries.• Retouching, deep-etching pictures.• Work with photographs to produce and execute the message of each article.• Produce final artwork of the magazines by packaging all the elements required for print.• Work closely with the printer to ensure the final print ready proofs were correct and signed off.• Ensuring all inserts and samples were sent to the finishing house to be inserted with the magazines from printing company, before going to the distributors.

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  Independent Newspapers

  • Desktop Publisher/Layout Artist

    • 1998 - 2007

    I was responsible for developing and creating property advertisements for the weekend publication (i.e. Weekend Argus, Property Times and Bolander) executed through guidelines, layouts, templates and style sheets.Worked at Independent Newspaper as a Data Capturer then Editorial Assistant up until DTP Operator/Artist. All training was provided by the Company.Duties:• Producing property advertisement for the various property agencies.• Ensuring accuracy and a consistency in client corporate identity.• Managing, producing and designing artwork from brief to fulfilment.• Retouching photographs.• Creating logos and templates.• Work closely with the client to produce the final product.• Ensure that the final pages are proofed and signed off by the client before placed into the supplement.• Ensure that all advertisement are colours correct before printing.• Adhere to deadlines of the different property supplements to ensure all supplements are printed on time.