SUMMARY

• A versatile senior media professional with a proven track record of delivering creative solutions across all aspects of magazine design, web design, illustration, identity creation and iPad integration
• Extensive experience of creating and managing multiple magazines for print, digital and online media platforms with circulations in excess of 200k
• Experience of managing and developing junior designers
• Accomplished designer with 20 years experience in print, online and digital
• Experience of representing designers at board level and the ability to develop highly effective working relationships at all levels of business
• Pro-active, passionate and motivated by challenge
• A strong communicator that is happy to work alone or as part of a team

CAREER HISTORY

Feb 2012- present: Freelance designer

Freelance designer working across both trade and consumer magazines, websites and web ads, iPad editions, brand identities, reports, illustration and awards/events collateral.

Clients include Think Publishing, Haymarket Business Media, Incisive Media, Pilotbean, Tuneloop Ltd, ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.), IFF China (International Finance Forum.

Projects include redesigns of Professional Adviser magazine and Retirement Planner magazine, website design and brand development for www.tuneloop.net, advertising and event collateral design for various business summits and awards.

Feb ‘09 - Feb ’12: Group Art Editor, Personal Technology Group (Computeractive magazine & British Journal of Photography)
Incisive Media (Formerly VNU)

Art Editor for Computeractive, associated brand collateral and sister titles, managing own projects, budgets and the design teams for both titles. Managed Art Editor of BJP. A member of the Incisive Media Design and Production Board.

Sept ‘04 - Feb ‘12: Art Editor Computeractive magazine, including Art Editor Active Home magazine (‘05 - ’07)
Art Editor of Computeractive, the UK’s leading computer and technology magazine, which sold 165,000 copies every fortnight and had a broad demographic ranging from 30 to 75 years of age.

Managed the art department, commissioning illustrators, photographers and overseeing designers and freelancers. Work also included marketing campaigns, brand extensions and the recruitment and training of new designers.

Redesigned sister title, Webactive, and designed from launch Computeractive spin-off, Active Home magazine, as well as the design of a national campaign that received a highly commended at the 2008 PPA awards.

Redesigned the entire Computeractive website and designed the new Computeractive iPad App.

Feb ‘01 - Sept ’04: Deputy Art Editor Computeractive magazine, including Art Editor Webactive magazine (Jan ‘03 - Feb ’05)
Responsible for layout and illustration of Computeractive as well as commissioning and directing contributory illustrators, photographers and designers.

Responsible for layout and illustration of Webactive title with zero budget. Liaising with the Editor, Publisher and all other departments within the magazine.

Redesigned and re-sized (from A4 to A5) Webactive. The results were well received by the industry    and also featured in PR Week, Press Gazette and Media Week.

Feb ‘98 - Feb ’01: Art Editor Cars & Car Conversions magazine
Focus Network - IPC (Formerly Link House Magazines)

Responsible for all artistic direction of the title. Duties included photographic/illustrative direction and liaison with the Editor, Publisher, repro house etc. Responsible for a total redesign of the title.

Jun ‘96 - Feb ’98: Art Editor SMT (Security Management Today) (Jan ‘97 - Feb ‘98)
Art Editor Security Installer, Security Retailer (Jun ‘96 - Feb ‘98)
SPL (Security Publications Ltd)
Responsible for creating and establishing SMT magazine, from initial concept to print, redesigning Security Installer and Security Retailer magazine, and liaising with photographers/illustrators.

Jun ‘95 - Jun ’96: Junior Designer - SPL

Skills

• Adobe CS (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), Mag+ and App Studio for iPad, QuarkXPress, Acrobat, Quark, Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Website design (front end)
• Have overseen HTML and UX design based projects
• Line management of junior team members and budget management. Extensive experience in commissioning and directing photographers and illustrators, liaising with external contractors
• Illustration, photography, creating and establishing all aspects of design for new concepts to launch, redesigning existing title and websites and designing for iPad editions. Negotiating for digital rights

Relevant education

Sept 1992 - Jul 1994: Cumbria college of Art & Design
HND - Editorial Design

Other information

Interests: Art, film, music, science & technology, sport and cooking
References: Business and personal references available on request