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Lﾃｭdia Augusta Alves Meneses Soares / Phone: 778 980 7705 / E-mail: lm@lidiadesign.net / www.lidiadesign.net/ Vancouver

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Lﾃ好IA MENESES/ Graphic Designer & Visual Arts Teacher

Profile

LET ME DESIGN, DRAW, TEACH, CARE, EMPOWER and THINK ABOUT YOU Iﾂｴm an artist, designer, teacher and entrepreneur. I use my creativity without boundaries. Iﾂｴm a very motivated individual, who thrives on problem solving. A determined and goal-oriented self-starter, with an appetite for teamwork and collaboration, complimented by the ability to adapt under pressure and meet deadlines through dedicated hard work and skilful project management. My further strengths include, analytical, critical thinking, communication and organization skills, complemented by advanced technical skills. I have proven capacity to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Qualifications Highlights o o o o o

Lead Designer & Creative Director for corporate companies. Visual Arts and Technical Education Teacher, as a full time job. Freelance Designer in a variety of professional environments (over 8 years of experience), as a part-time job. Diverse knowledge of project management, including theatre production, fine arts projects and entrepreneurship training delivery (over 15 years of experience). Languages: multi-lingual (Portuguese, English, French, Spanish & Italian)

Lídia Augusta Alves Meneses Soares / Phone: 778 980 7705 / E-mail: lm@lidiadesign.net / www.lidiadesign.net/ Vancouver

Education o o

Year Institution 2009-2011 Lusófona University, Portugal. 1999-2004 University of Oporto, Portugal.

Master’s Degree in Visual Arts Teaching Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Design

Professional Development o o o o o

Teacher training in entrepreneurship Interactive course of the digital platform Moodle Web design training Course in professional education EXD Workshop Master Classes, organized by Experimenta Design, Lisbon 2003 (Association for the Promotion of Design and Culture Project), with internationally renowned speakers: Paul Farrington, Ian Anderson, Piotr Szyhalski, M / M Paris and Max Bruinsma Volunteer at photography studio

Personal Development o o o o o o

Mandarin course at the Coal Harbour Community Center Contemporary Dance (Classes and Workshops), MOVE dance school in Ponta Delgada, Oporto and Viseu Pre- and post- partum classes in Physis, Ponta Delgada Participated in “Wanderings” (International Festival of Music and Traditional Dance), Viseu Groups Choir and Folklore (School and Community), Choir of Ponta Delgada, Ribeira Grande ES and Castanheiro College Squash, ballet, aerobics, swimming, guitar, piano, singing & meter, theatre & body expression and Portuguese Sign Language classes.

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Dedicated to family and friends Building creative and business oriented solutions for different problems, for example: SONDA machine sound frequencies, which allows the deaf, or anyone else, to create and even feel, pleasant sounds Artistic expression: drawing, writing, dancing, singing Squash, swimming, soccer, meditation Reading (specific interest in Psychology, Anthropology, History and Science Fiction) Belongs to the Lions Club (Lagoa, Portugal) Sponsoring a girl from Mali in her education through the organization “Because I am a Girl” ("http://www.becauseiamagirl.ca")

Achievements: o o o o o

Teacher of Excellency, Castanheiro College Poetry & Illustration Contest, Culture House of Paredes Azorean Government Entrepreneur Course, ending with high scores “Excel expectations diploma”, Vilela School Best FBAUP´s project design, 2004, with a sound instrument creation for the deaf (SONDA).

Lídia Augusta Alves Meneses Soares / Phone: 778 980 7705 / E-mail: lm@lidiadesign.net / www.lidiadesign.net/ Vancouver

LET ME

BRAND

YOU

I DESIGN: It is through my professional work that I intend to forge an indelible path of creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. With this driving force, I lend to each client and to my own development the sum of all my personal experiences. My own brand is to always be as complete as possible and present the customer with the very best.

I DO: Logos, brands, flyers, typography, posters, magazines, web pages layouts, video, graphical sound, campaigns, presentations, treatment of images, store vitrinism, etc. SKILLS: o Adobe CS4 Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Premiere, After Effects, Dreamweaver, etc. o Type tools: Transtype, Fontographer, Typetool, Bitfonter, etc. o Mac tools: iMovie, iPhoto, etc o Tablet animation and drawing apps o Digital & Analog photography machine, darkroom techniques o Wacom (Intuos.4 tablet, A3 format) o Printers (personal and industrial) SEE : www.lidiadesign.net or https://www.behance.net/LidiaMeneses

Professional Experience as a Designer Owner and Creative Director

2014 – Present

Silk Scarf Design Solutions International Ltd. Director of Administration & Lead Designer

January 2014 - May 2014

Marques Canada Management (Vancouver, BC.) Executive Assistant of Administration & Lead Designer

November 2013 - December 2013

Marques Group (Azores, Portugal) o

Lead Designer within corporate marketing strategy, including corporate rebranding of company website (www.grupomarques.org), company corporate logo, internal and external corporate publications and interior design of corporate operations.

Freelance Designer Worked as a freelance designer for various clients: o o o o o o o

2004-2013

Associations: VALSAQ (environment and quality life association of Vale do Sousa), AEVM (business association Meã village), Association of Young 60s, Lions Club Institutions: VFC cultural center, Saint Sebastian Clinic Schools: Penafiel group of schools, Castanheiro College, School of VFC, Vilela, Travagem, RG, ESAQ Creative director in: Marques Group, Interlusa companies and Matriz (Design & Architecture Studio) Companies: JMS Machines, Marques Canada Management Inc., Azores Fresh, Frozen & Wild fish, Terra Azul Azores Whale Watching, HR Produções, Petit Patapon Stores: Vila Meã IT Store, Modamar Clothes, Catarina Martins Shoes Others: Solar do Muro Restaurant, Momentus Bar, Music Groups, individuals, etc.

LĂdia Augusta Alves Meneses Soares / Phone: 778 980 7705 / E-mail: lm@lidiadesign.net / www.lidiadesign.net/ Vancouver

I DRAW: I assign great importance to the use of drawing as a powerful creative tool, because behind any paint / design / project is always an endless set of lines as a YOU structural skeleton, preventing a lot of mistakes. In addition, I give equal importance to technological advances. I research a concept extensively to ensure I understand what a client is looking for, or even with my own creations. I realize that first impressions are very important and that a piece of work must be conceptualized within 3 seconds â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and this is my goal. This scientific process is used in all of my work. As such, I am a big supporter of simplicity and originality, using strong typographies, colors and contrasts, adapted to a particular context. In the end, everything must be extremely consistent and connected. LET ME

DRAW

I DO: Fine arts classic techniques and mixed media portraits, scientific, realistic, fantasy and abstract, storyboard, BD, animations, etc. SKILLS: o Various drawing, typographic and animation applications o Usage of Mac, PC, iPad and Tablet drawing, Wacom o Light table o Usage of the classic art tools, materials and surfaces. Examples, but not limited to: brushes, pens, crayons, acrylic, watercolour, polyurethane, clay (modelling), polystyrene, glass, wire, construction paper, analogue and digital photography, dry & oil pastel, watercolour, glass & fabric tints and acrylic painting o Usage of classic and contemporary techniques. Examples, but not limited to: fine arts background style, using classical drawings with renaissance techniques, geometry and perspective, mixed media with photography, illustrations by using computer graphic techniques, with digital treatment, vectorization, paper craft. For animations: models in balsa wood and in Kline, story board, script and composition planning (light, elements, colour scheme, angles) SEE : www.lidiadesign.net or http://www.freelanced.com/lidia1624

Lídia Augusta Alves Meneses Soares / Phone: 778 980 7705 / E-mail: lm@lidiadesign.net / www.lidiadesign.net/ Vancouver

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I CARE: My experience as a teacher, entrepreneur and mother made me realize that there was a need for supporting women´s ambitions and I wanted to help in some way. I want women to be able to work and be with their families without having to choose one or the other, and be happy and successful while doing it. I truly believe that this is possible. Because of that I´m assembling an international team of designers, with the goal of solving Women´s daily life issues, involving but no limited to: fashion, graphic, branding design and the little things in life that need creative solutions. The name of the company is Silk Scarf International Design Solutions Ltd. Along with this new company, I am starting a blog called “VThings”. The purpose of this is to create discussion about women’s “things”, beginning in Vancouver, and to show women how design can improve their lives. I also started to actively use social media to stay connected and be up to date on the aforementioned issues. ............................ ..... .... .... .... ....

I DO: Write, network, blog and give advice about womens issues, mostly related to design, empowerment, organization and beauty assistance by using my own and others experiences, while processing the information. With the help of my team, we aim to provide a simple answer for women. SKILLS: Internet tools including, Gmail, Dropbox, Google Drive, Blogger, YouTube, Social Media SEE: www.silkscarfdesignsolutions.net www.lidiadesign.net https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=217983153&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile, https://www.facebook.com/lidia.meneses.12 http://www.pinterest.com/lidiameneses12/

Lídia Augusta Alves Meneses Soares / Phone: 778 980 7705 / E-mail: lm@lidiadesign.net / www.lidiadesign.net/ Vancouver

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I TEACH : My resolution to become a full time teacher was heavily inspired by the artist Piotr Szyhalski, who gave a presentation during my time as a student of Fine TEACH Arts. In that performance, the furious artist acted like a teacher and wrote on a YOU blackboard all the words that define a human being. He emphasized his concern for the world around him and the importance of good human attributes; the teacher’s role; and the necessity of positively contributing to one’s environment. It became clear to me then that participating in education could allow an artist to share his or her skills of observation and sensitivity in order to bring about positive change. In my eight years of teaching, I researched, studied, developed and applied an Interdisciplinary Network System and approach to education that could gather students, teachers, and members of the school community from a variety of disciplines to achieve a common goal. This resulted in the students being highly motivated because they felt as if they were able to create anything. .... BUILD YO UR RIPT SC PO ... RT T.

I DO: Teach visual arts and technical education renascence techniques using bone structure, muscles and skin from animals and human-beings, perspective and geometric compositions, critical and analytical skills of observation, project techniques using the scientific and multidisciplinary process of working. Using the aforementioned teaching techniques I´m able to help students and clients create their own unique portfolio. SKILLS: Software knowledge including, Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook SEE : http://interartescastanheiro.blogspot.pt/

Professional Experience as a Teacher Teacher, Coordinator & Tutor

2010 - 2013

Castanheiro College, San Miguel (Azores, Portugal) o o o o o o

Teacher of Visual Arts and Technological Education (Grade 5 & 6), Visual Education (Grade 7 & 9), Technology Education (Grade 7 & 8) and Supervised Study (Grade 6) Arts & Expression Coordinator & Activities Coordinator Responsible for the implementation of the Entrepreneurial Education Project, which included whole school collaboration, regular large scale events and awards ceremonies Responsible for the implementation of the Junior Achievement Program Lead Designer for school theatre productions, in collaboration with cross-curricular departments and teams Lead Designer for whole school communication, both internal and external, including invitations, flyers, posters, online blog, video production, photography, space decoration and event design

Teacher &Tutor

2010 - 2011

School of Vila Franca do Campo, San Miguel (Azores, Portugal) o

Responsible for multidisciplinary events in collaboration with educational professionals

Teacher, Rivisioner & Classifier

2008 - 2009

Ribeira Grande Secondary School, San Miguel (Azores, Portugal)

Lídia Augusta Alves Meneses Soares / Phone: 778 980 7705 / E-mail: lm@lidiadesign.net / www.lidiadesign.net/ Vancouver

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Technical Education Teacher (Light Vehicle Mechanics) for children with learning difficulties. Created and promoted activities within LVM class, including entrepreneurial student initiatives, student visits, educational projects and liaising with outside industries Designated School Revisioner and Classifier for a number of school courses Substitute teacher in surveillance examinations Guest Designer on the Ribeira Grande Organizing Committee Created apparel illustration for St. John’s procession of ES of Ribeira Grande Increased student results on the school mechanics course whilst working as the Technical Educator to students with special needs

Teacher

2007- 2008

Vila Franca do Campo Primary and Secondary School, San Miguel (Azores, Portugal) o o o o o o o

Teacher of Technological Education Coordinated all the activities of Technical Education throughout the year Wrote and produced "The Boy with 100 Nothings," an inspiring play about human rights Participated in the carnival "The Nationalities" and created costumes for other disciplines Created the Wallpaper School Journal Attended teacher training about “Accessibility and Safety for people with disabilities” Created solutions for apparel for St. John’s corso, in Vila Franca do Campo

Teacher

2006- 2007

EB 2,3 – Cego de Maio, Póvoa de Varzim (Porto, Portugal) o o

Teacher of Technological Education Coordinated the activities of Technical Education throughout the year, including "Valentine's Day" and "Renaissance / Leonardo da Vinci"

Teacher, Class Director

2005- 2006

Escola EB 2,3 of Travagem (Ermesinde, Portugal) o o o

Teacher of Technological and Civic Education Director of Class (Gr7) Creator and coordinator of multimedia school group

Teacher, Director of Facilities

2004- 2005

Escola EB 2,3 of S. Vilela, Portugal o

Teacher of Technical Education and Supervised Study One of the coordinators of the theater group: in this framework I elaborated, together with my students, as well as the actor Pedro Lamares, the whole environment, screenplay, decor and sounds needed in the presentation of Anton Chekhov’s "The Seagull" at Paredes Culture Palace