Dawn Goulding
Graphic Designer Illustrator Art Director
RESUME
Professional ​
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​Graphic Design Artwork & Signs, Created with energy & zest with a passion for visual arts. Clocking up over 500GB of experience in creating logos, signs, business cards, letterheads, flyers & vehicle graphics.
I have a flair with colour balance, & a sound knowledge of the colour wheel, knowing what colour to add to make a piece work.
Specialising in quality Artwork for large format printing.
I love getting the opportunity of producing the WOW factor with my work!
Loving the challenge of big projects & the satisfaction of meeting deadlines.
Work​
experience​
Graphic Designer/Printer/Art Director
SIGN DEPOT
​2006-2019
Conversing with client needs, designing, manufacturing signs, logos, vehicle graphics & printing of business stationery.
Knowledge of a wide variety of materials to cover all business advertising & signage needs.
Taking initial brief through to finished artwork, press ready printing & acrylic cut/printed/vinyl signage installed on premises.
Producing Creative Signs for local businesses from brief for Signage, Vehicle, fleet Graphics & stationery.
Operating ROLAND Digital printer & Mimmaki cutting machine.
Trouble shooting printing problems with Artwork.
Installing vinyl window signage, window frosting & vinyl graphics on vehicles.Project management, delegating contract workers for installation of big signs, up to 10 meters wide.
Graphic Design & Artwork
ART THROB
​2005-2008
Producing Digital Artwork for printing on canvas & quirky objects d'art.
Will upload more photos soon :-)
Pattern Maker & sample producer
CHRISC
​2005-2006
Making patterns & samples for lingerie & nightwear for a range of clothing for women with & have had breast cancer.
Art program at local recreational centers
VINCENT & STIRLING COUNCIL
Part time position
2002-2005
Art classes for the local community guiding children to produce Art Masterpieces. Have lots of photos.
The classes were after school and School Holiday Programs.
MISS PRISS
1998
Designed & manufactured kids range of clothing.
PLUSH DESIGN
1996-2001
Designing Home-wares & gifts for sale at markets & festivals around Perth, sold my creations to ART GALLERY WA shop at Andy Warhol exhibition, and became stockist to CRAFT-WEST, MAD COW DESIGN, stocking numerous gift shops in Perth.
Will upload more photos soon :-)
Became a MUM 1996 :-)
krome-ATTIC
1995
Renovating & updating 50's 60's furniture, creating gifts & home-wares, oil paintings, handbags, giant paper crepe flowers, maribu feather cards & more....
Will upload more photos soon :-)
Wedding Dress Design
1994
Designing & constructing wedding dresses.
Drake Industrial
1990-1995
Casual positions for companies needing help in busy times, part time whilst studying,
waitress, functions, bar-work, factory hand, cleaning.
A1 ALTERATIONS
1991
Clothing Alterations in City.
DIANA WALDREN SCHOOL OF DANCE
1991
Costume Designer & Producer
Designed & Produced all costumes for Stage productions.
KALBARRI BOAT HIRE
1990
Taking people on holiday on a tour giving them bush breakfast, then commuting them to make their way back to boat hire in canoes. Hiring out all boat activities.
GLORIA MARSHALLS FIGURE SALON
1988
Motivating & setting up weight loss programs for ladies wanting to lose some excess weight.
NANNY (AUS)
1984
Nanny for Dr Sudbury & Dr Sandy Tait
Taking care of their beautiful daughter Victoria, Entertaining, walks in pram, whilst Victoria napping I would do light house cleaning duties, make a pan of carrot soup, & whatever needed to be done.
NEVADA MODES (UK)
1983
Trainee machinist in clothing factory.
STARLINE PRINTERS (UK)
1982
Trainee
Screen Printing bumper stickers, pens, badges, etc
Packing the above in boxes,
Labeling boxes.
My 1st job was making stickers & my last job is making stickers. lol :)
Skills
ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE
-ILLUSTRATOR
-PHOTOSHOP
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
ART DIRECTOR
FINE CUT 8
PRODUCTION MANAGER/RIP OF FLEXISIGN
VERSAWORKS
WIX WEBSITES
WIRE-FRAMES
CSS-CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
BASIC HTML
BASIC CSS
WORD-PRESS
FRONT END WEBSITE DESIGN
IMAGE MANIPULATION
ART DIRECTION
DEADLINE DRIVEN
CUTTING EDGE DESIGN
EXTREMELY CREATIVE
IDEA+DESIGN+CREATE+SKILL = ACCOMPLISH
CREATE SCALED ARTWORK OF BUILDINGS & VEHICLES FOR CLIENT TO PROOFREAD
TYPOGRAPHY
CUSTOM QR CODES
READ INTERIOR DESIGN-ARCHITECT PLANS
CORPORATE ART
3D DESIGN
LOGO DESIGN
COLOUR BALANCE
STORYBOARDS
CONCEPT SKETCHES
PAN-TONE MATCHING SYSTEM
OPERATE ROLAND/MIMMAKI DIGITAL PRINTER
OPERATE ROLAND/MIMMAKI VINYL CUTTING MACHINE
PRINT & CUT FILES
VINYL CUTTING/APPLICATION
VEHICLE GRAPHICS
SEMI CAR WRAP APPLICATION
-BUFFING VEHICLES
-APPLYING VINYL GRAPHICS TO VEHICLES
CONSTRUCTING SIGNS
-GLUING
-EYELETS-RIVETS
-STANLEY KNIFE PRECISION CUTTING SKILL
-APPLYING APP TAPE
-WEEDING VINYL GRAPHICS
-LAMINATING
-USING HEAT GUN ON VINYL
-BRUSH PAINTING SKILLS
-INSTALLING VINYL GRAPHICS TO COLOURBOND/GLASS/ACRYLIC/
DIBOND/CORFLUTE/VEHICLES/TRUCKS
-VINYL WINDOW GRAPHICS
-FROSTED WINDOWS
-A-FRAMES
-ROSTER SIGNS
-LIGHTBOXES
-SCREEN-PRINTING
-SEWING UP BANNERS
-USE INDUSTRIAL SEWING MACHINE
SEW SILK-VELVET-VINYL/BANNER ROPES
BASIC DREAMWEAVER
APPLE MAC
VISUAL COMMUNICATION
PRINT MANAGEMENT
TROUBLESHOOTING PRINTING PROBLEMS
CREATE FILES FOR OFFSET PRINTING
-BUSINESS CARDS
-FLYERS
-STATIONARY
CREATE FILES FOR LASER/ROUTER CUTTING
MAKING FRAMES FOR CANVAS PRINTS
STRETCHING CANVAS ON FRAME
-GALLERY WRAP
BASIC CARPENTRY SKILLS WITH TOOLS
-DROP SAW
-ROUTER
-JIGSAW
-DRILL
-CIRCULAR SAW
-NAIL/STAPLE GUN
-SANDERS
FINE ART
BRUSH PAINTING SKILLS
SCULPTURE
-BRONZE CASTING
-LATEX CASTING
-PLASTER CASTING
-MODELLING CLAY
-PAPER MACHE
-WIRE/WOOD
-CONCRETE
-PERSPEX
-ACRYLIC
-COPPER
-COMPUTER CUT TECHNOLOGY
STAGE PROPS
-WIRE-FOAM-CHIPBOARD-PAPER MACHE
OIL PAINTING
ILLUSTRATION IN CHALK & OIL PASTELS
TEXTILES
PATTERN-MAKING-CLOTHING
MOSAICING
STAGE MAKE UP
HISTORY OF ART
HISTORY OF COSTUME/FURNITURE
DELEGATING
SUPERVISING
MOOD BOARDS
QUALITY CONTROL
SOLUTION MINDSET
OPEN MIND
FLEXIBLE MINDSET
ADAPT TO ENVIRONMENT
AND MORE...
Language
English
Education
SOUTH METRO TAFE
2016
Website Development Diploma
4 units part time to polish up on HTML coding & CSS style sheets
PERTH CENTRAL TAFE
2003-2006
Graphic Design
BASIC CARPENTRY SKILLS
1995-1995 ( 12 weeks )
Skillshare, Maylands.
Learning to use various power tools, making boxes, frames to stretch canvas on, & projects of different ways to join wood together, butt, miter, rebate, half lap & dovetail joints.
BENTLEY TAFE
1990-1993
Apparel manufacture & Design, pattern cutting, manufacture clothing, tailoring, quality control, industrial machining techniques, CAD Grading.
CLAREMONT SCHOOL OF ART
Dip: Fine Art
1988-1991
Painting, Sculpture, Still life drawing, Design, Live model drawing, Live model sculpture, Printmaking, History of Art.
ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS
WAAPA
1985-1988
Dip: Theatre Arts & Studio Production Design.
GREENLANDS HIGH SCHOOL
A-Levels: Art & Design, English, Maths, History.
CLAREMONT PRIMARY SCHOOL
Sport:
Computer Graphics :)
Hobbies/Interests:
Computer Graphics :)
Font collecting :)
Natural Medicine
Chinese Medicine
Psychology
Interior Design
Renovating
Sailing
Reading
Yoga
Bongo drums
Fab Cook
Scrabble Champ
Further Knowledge
I have an interest
in learning:
Video editing
Adobe Premiere
Digital Animation
Lighting
Digital lighting signage
Welding scrap metal to make works of art