Brief Summary
I am Currently in my final year of BA (Hons) Graphic Design at Leeds College of Art, my passion is Hand drawn type design and illustration. If you you are interested collaborating with, commissioning or hiring me please let me know. All contact and comments are welcome, don't hesitate to ask for more info.
"Concept driven designer focussing on hand drawn and vector based solutions for promo, packaging, publishing and identity. For a range of audiences."
Professional Experience
EXPERIENCE
SONSTROED AS
MARKETING ASSISTANT
Norway
Jul 2010 – Aug 2010
I worked as Marketing and Sales Assistant for this company in Norway. This is an Import Export company dealing in the graphical, photo and digital market. They buy products from companies such as Neschen AG and Seal (Hunt Europe). I was involved in helping setting up marketing and sales plans for these products towards customers in Norway.
SELFSTORE LLC
MARKETING ASSISTANT AND SECRETARY
Dubai
Jul 2009 – Aug 2009
Involved dealing with clients, creating and editing documents as well as writing up contracts during the summer periods as listed above. I had to deal with financial aspects such as balancing the accounts. I also assisted with improving their marketing campaign, where we worked on website functionability, talking to mover and packing companies to ensure they promote Selfstore LLC by word of mouth and providing market research to help select better places to put adverts. It required the ability to work well both alone and in a team, have great attention to detail, be a good people person along with a high level of administrative skill.
EDUCATION
LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART
Leeds
Sep 2008 – Jun 2011
BA (Hons) Graphic design
LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART
Leeds
Aug 2007 – Jun 2010
BTEC diploma in Art foundation
DUBAI COLLEGE
Dubai
Sep 2002 – Jun 2007
Secondary School
A-levels: A in Art, B in Mathematics and B in Computing
AS Levels: A in Design and Technology
GCSE: 2A* s, 2A’s and 5 B’s in Mathematics, French, English, ICT, Art and design, Science (Double award) and History
LANGUAGES
English (Fluent), French (Beginner), Arabic (Beginner), Norwegian (Fluent)
SKILLS
adobe creative suite, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, microsft office, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Adobe Reader,