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    Nick Shale

    Nick Shale

    Senior graphic designer and artworker

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    I am a Senior Graphic Designer and Artworker with over 10 years of extensive practical experience in both agency and in-house creative roles. I have worked for numerous blue chip...Read moreI am a Senior Graphic Designer and Artworker with over 10 years of extensive practical experience in both agency and in-house creative roles. I have worked for numerous blue chip organisations and companies in a variety of disciplines from Corporate ID developments, through to brochure and web design.
    CV available on request.

    Area Covered: Birmingham, West Midlands (Nationwide if home based)
    Work Experience Summary: SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER/CREATIVE ARTWORKER
    West Bromwich Building Society. May 08 to Present
    Presently working in an In-House Senior Designer/Artworker capacity for the West Bromwich Building Society’s Marketing Dept. I am responsible for producing the new style guides and new creative direction for West Brom’s range of mortgage and savings products, as well as artworking for their existing range.

    FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER/CREATIVE ARTWORKER
    Affinity Training Ltd. March 08 to May 08
    Responsible for the design of new a corporate ID and rebranding on behalf of Affinity Training Ltd. I was also involved in the design production of Affinity Training’s overseas brochures, website and media packs to coincide with their rebranding and relaunch.

    FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER
    Corporate Express Ltd. Sept 2007 to Feb 08.
    Responsible for designing and producing a range of business-to-business brochures and catalogues, as well as advertising artwork, exhibition displays and internal comms on behalf of Corporate Express, for their upcoming 2008 range of business and office supplies.

    FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER/CREATIVE ARTWORKER
    DRW Ltd. June 2007 to Sept 2007
    Orchestrating the set-up of an internal design studio resource for DRW Ltd’s import business, chiefly responsible for the creation of all of DRW’s Print, Web, and Packaging Retail Artwork as well as overseeing the creative output and running of the studio.

    FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER
    Carlsberg Breweries Ltd. May 2007 to June 2007
    Worked exclusively on Carlsberg’s upcoming promotional artwork and publicity material for the Euro 2008 Football Championships’, also responsible for producing the artwork for all P.O.S and Packaging Merchandise to tie in with this upcoming event.

    SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER/ARTWORKER
    The Publishing House/Birmingham Independent. February 2005 to May 2007
    Working as part of a design studio of 5 designers in a senior designer/studio manager capacity. I was responsible for the creation of all print and web artwork publications on behalf of the clients for The Publishing House design agency. I also worked in the same capacity for The Publishing House’s weekly magazine publication The Birmingham Independent’, which involved liaising closely with the studio and editorial staff in sub-editing and advert/artwork creation for the magazine at the time of final production.

    SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER/ARTWORKER
    Opera Media Communications. February 2004 to February 2005 Chief designer for mobile media communications company, working with major blue-chip clients such as GMTV, Universal Studios, David Sullivan Media Group and The Northern & Shell Media Group. Solely responsible for creating print and web pop up’ publicity artwork to promote clients’ premium rate mobile services that run in conjunction with Opera Media’s telecom division. Also responsible for the creation of all design artwork for Opera’s own in-house services and promotions, including direct door to door’ mailshot promotions, Mobile 3-G’ service promotional booklets and numerous advertisements for popular magazine publications.

    MIDDLEWEIGHT GRAPHIC DESIGNER
    Vodafone Mobile Communications and Marketing. February 2002 to February 2004
    Created and designed various internal company promotions and literature. Liaised with various departments, assisting and adding ideas in regard to any design or advertisement based project, and to keep them up to date with changes in market trends.
    Education Summary: B.A Honours in Art, Design and Media (2:1) University Of Portsmouth 1993 to 1996

    A-level Art and Design (B) A-Level Photography (C) Burton Upon Trent Art College 1991 to 1993

    9 GCSE’s at grades C and above, including English, Maths and Science.
    Wilnecote High School, Tamworth 1988 to 1991

    RELEVANT SKILLS

    •Fully literate with AppleMac (OS.9 to OS.X) and IBM PC computer operating systems.
    •Extensive working experience with all major design applications in CS3 and CS4, such as Indesign, QuarkXpress, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Acrobat.
    •Able to work as part of a creative team or individually when required.
    •Able to work on several projects simultaneously and keep to expected deadlines and budgets.
    •Excellent communication skills developed from liaising and working directly with Printers, Account Handlers, Photographers, Copywriters, Marketing Analysts and Web Designers.

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