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BORN 25 JUNE 8706250024084
1987
i do what i love & love what i do Ardour PHOTOGRAPHY DESIGN ILLUSTRATION RE-TOUCHING FINE ARTS Allure
Advertising Business Couture
Inspiration
Music Beautiful creations
Fashion Drawing Painting Making things gorgeous Re-touching Achieving the impossible Speed
SOFTWARE
Extensive knowledge Adobe - cs5 Photoshop Illustrator Indesign
Mid-level Adobe - CS5 Dreamweaver Wordpress Microsoft word, excel & powerpoint
Basic Adobe - CS5 Flash Fireworks After effects Premiere Pro
Camera 5D Mark II Windows 8 - i7 Work on both mac & pc
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2003-2007 Mica & Jacks paint
2006 alexisVERT
2012-2013 Young & Rubicam
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2008 Switch
2008-2010 TLA
2009/2010 Bubblegum
2010/2012 Culinary - Schulphoek
PrĂŠcis 2006
FREELANCING , CONTRACT &
CONSULTING
alexisVERT
Photography, Design, illustration, Re-touching, Fine Arts, Styling - Photography assistant, Web & Marketing CLIENTS - Bruce k. Cantrell, Devon Brough, Curious pictures, Blue glue, Cameroon, Ogilvy, Sun International, Just add, Bella donna, Roger Wells, Attra Construction, TLA
2008
R200/hr Freelancing - 2 weeks Learnt to work quickly, efficiently, under pressure Have fun but work hard
Switch
Below & Above the line advertising - DTP & Design Sabaru - Billboards, magazine ads, newpaper ads Baracuda - Packaging x7 Sanlam - Promotional material concepts, presentations on the campaign Werksmans - Internal documentation; newsletters, letterheads BMW - Billboards, magazine ads, newspaper ads Newspaper - Calendar design
R9 000/mth
2009-2010
Permanent October 2009 - April 2010 Adapt design style to match brief Work alone confidently
Bubblegum
Educational Design Matric Matters - DTP, Design & layout of the weekly newspaper supplements Social Media - Facebook & Twitter TV - DTP, lessons Educational textbooks - DTP, layouts, diagrams
2012-2013
R1015/day Freelancing December 2012 - February 2013 Work on Global artwork key visuals
Young & Rubicam - Johannesburg 360Ëš Colgate Palmolive Optic White, Slimsoft, Double Action, Protex, Palmolive, Internal event invitations, image search, powerpoint presentations, pitch documentations - DTP, Design & layout, promo outfit
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2008-2010 TLA - talent management
Week nights & Weekends 2008 - 2010 Learnt the benefits & downfalls of owning & running your own company Importance of networking How to win a client
Business Entrepreneur - Owner JHB, CPT & DBN - Runway & Photographic, Character, Parts, Plus Size, Children & Babies Client meetings & Pitches Bookings Marketing & Design - Branding; CI - Website, Business cards, Email signatures Documentation, Social media Admin - Payments, Invoices, Book keeping, Filing and Contracts
clients Curious pictures, Ogilvy, Urban degree, TW Steel - A1 gp, Nucleaf brands, Candice Arnold, Fanatx, Bartenders workshop, Sonic energy, White INC, ZTE, Rainbow experiential marketing, Homemark, Zoom advertising, Mywaterloorugby.com, Area 51 productions, Cup
2010-2012
Culinary equipment company & Schulphoek
R15 700/mth Permanent July 2010 - November 2012 Cultured & refined my skills Learnt about difficulties in re-branding Love for advertising just kept growing
Photography, Design, Illustration, Re-touching, Web, Styling, Marketing assitant, Re-branding, Admin, Social media Advertising below & above the line - Design, Conceptualise, Execute; Magazine ads, Retail promotional material - Digital & print, Liase with publishers for artwork & features Web - Basic web coding, Html, Jquery, Flash + Design & management, Help build social media Photography - Products, Food, Advertisements - Lifestyle Re-touching - Products, Lifestyle shoots, Models Illustration - Campaign, Character creation & Product rendering Admin - Dealing directly with suppliers & printers, Follow-ups of payments & Invoices
2003-2007 Mica - Jacks Paint
R60/hr Weekends, Public Holidays & Holidays high school, univerosty & college Love for advertising grew Passion for people Understanding of business Dedication to be the best Won best cashier from Visa competition country wide
Displays, Cashier, Admin, Dispatch, Sales
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Freelancing , contract &
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2006 Photography - Design - Illustration - rE-TOUCHING - Fine Arts clients
butterlove
branding & website Logo, Business card, Website & Launch website, Help Set-up Social Media, Photo-shoots & Videos
Les Delices de France
branding & website Logo, Business card, Website & Launch website, Copy for Blog, Help Set-up Social Media, Photo-shoots & Videos
tla - twisted lemon agency DESIGN - ILLUSTRATION - coding - marketing - social media - copy
FNB - Product photography & Events Set-up fox p2 - Photography amplicon pr - Photography lavo fashions - Logo tinderbox - Event photography life train - Logo just add - Event photography Attra Construction - Business card design Bella donna - Event poster & ticket design rotary - Logo, letterheads & Event photography featured in
picture this - one small seed ISSUE 3, 8 & 10
cheeky mag
2010 - STYLIST FOR BRUCE K. CANTRELL
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Freelancing , contract &
consulting
Devon Brough
spring break- Ogivly - Blue glue - cameroon - sun international Styling & co-ordination Blue glue Business card design bnn - curious pictures Styling, co-ordination, Web concept design, DTP thumbtribe - mxit
Bruce K. Cantrell
Photography assitant Studio Product shoots, Model portfolios, Wedding Assistant, Styling, Voucher design & Social media
Roger Wells
Photography assistant - Studio product shoots & Events photography - Re-toucing
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SERVICES Design Advertising Print - Posters, Postcards, Brochures & flyers Re-branding or creating Corporate Identities - Logos, business cards, letterheads Photography Advertising Products & Lifestyle Portraits - Adults, Teens, Toddlers, Babies, Family portraits & Corporate profile Fashion Lookbooks Events - Commercial, Weddings & Birthdays. The attic - Female nude or implied nude & Male implied nudes Illustration Fashion, Product, Portraiture & Character Re-touching Basic to advanced Fine Artist Oils, charcoal, water colours, mixed mediums website design Basic coding Websites - Wordpress Social media Emailers & Email Signatures
private projects - in-progress Elan - nude cocktail charity calendar Rocco de Villiers, Bruce K. Cantrell & Piers Braybrooke Director, Co-ordination, Assist with styling, Design, Marketing, Social media, Web development Chic Deconstruction Photography, Re-touching, Design, Web development - Magento, Co-Ordination & Styling
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2009-2010
permanent R9 000 - mONTH october 2010 - april 2010 Adapt design style to match brief Work alone confidently
Educational Design Design, llustration, Re-touching, Basic coding, Social media Matric Matters - DTP, Design & layout of the weekly newspaper suppliments. Design posters & create bostons educational page Social Media - Facebook & Twitter TV - DTP Educational textbooks - DTP, layouts, diagrams Illustration - Character & layouts
Liberty - Boston - Casio dmz
Emailer & Email signature Design & Basic coding
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2010-2012
contract R15 700 - mONTH July 2010 - november 2012
PHOTOGRAPHY - DESIGN - ILLUSTRATION - RE-TOUCHING - SOCIAL MEDIA - WEB MARKETING ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY: Stock, Interior/Architecture, Product/Lifestyle, Food, Events and Portraiture, Styling of photo shoots of products, working close at hand with a chef/cook for food styling as well. Lastly editing of imagery (from basic to intricate). DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION: DTP, Posters, Advertisements, Corporate Identity, Billboards, Promotional material, Show stand designs, emails, Price booklets, Brochures, Packaging design, Coffee packaging, Swing tags, Point of purchase and Retail store design - campaigns or whether it have been artworks for the interior or store fronts. Numerous web developments. Signage for pop-up restaurant/take-away. MARKETING: Conceptualisation of Above and below the line, assistant to supierior Liaising with publications for features - supplying imagery, assisting with show events; co-ordination, PR, content creation & construction of the blog, the set-up of the back-end of the main website. Plus continuing to build the social media platforms; being Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Pinterest. Price booklets; myself having researched and discovering the platform to render the booklets from an excel perspective; unifying the company’s product information from an administrative point directly in our design programs. Thus enabling the departments to work cohesively and cutting work flow by half the time. ADMIN: Liaising with suppliers for the retail stores and head office for stock of all packaging needs. Following up payments, quotations and seeing that the tasks are carried out efficiently, unless taken over by my superior. Registration of web domains and redirections by Culinary’s host provider. Printing production done internally; Coffee label packaging, Company details, Food products, Lacanche colour swatches, Price booklets, Company profile, Architectural drawings. Management of the iPad; converting videos and adding all business trips for client communication. Creation of TV Content for retail stores; Video conversations and presentation (used for Hostex - show stand). Answering my managers telephone and relaying information for the marketing division in her absence when she was not in the office. CODING: Emailers, Website (wordpress - blog), email signatures. Having taught myself coding, I carried out basic to slightly advanced tasks where needed. BASIC IT ASSIST: I helped within the company to quickly assist mainly sales assistants; if their emails went down, computer lagged, adding email signatures. Working closing and communicating directly with IT, if the problem could not be solved easily, that they could then solve the issue at hand. As well as assisting with the re-branding of Culinary Equipment Company and having re-branded Schulphoek Guesthouse with print media (Business cards, Brochure and AD’s) plus having photographed the Guesthouse along with its food.
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