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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

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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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