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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

 

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