Design Portfolio

Sarah Burgess

Portfolio

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Graphic Design & Illustration Selected works 2011 | 2013

CV

Sarah Burgess sarahburgess4@gmail.com +44 (0) 7960871856 uk.linkedin.com/in/sarahburgess4/ wwwcargocollective.com/sarahburgess

Currently Seeking Summer 2013 Internship or Junior Graphic Design position

Education 2009 - 2013 (Current)

Visual Communication | Loughborough University, England BA Hons Degree

• Illustration as Reportage Project: San Francisco research study trip • Visual Communications in Practise Module:

2011 - 2012

Graphic Design | Hong Kong Design Institute, (Tiu Keng Leng, HK) One Year International Exchange Programme

• Experiential Project with Architecture Student

2007 - 2009

Art & Design Study | York College, England

Two Year National Diploma Programme (Distinction, Merit, Distinction) 2002 - 2007

Secondary School | Ryedale School, England 7 GCSE: A-C Grade

Work Experience March 2013

Cloudbass Graphics Team | British Touring Cars Championships Brands Hatch, Kent

2012 - 2013 (Current)

Surface Gallery | Art Invigilator | Exhibition Design Team

2012 - 2013 (Current)

Anon Creative Arts Collective | Advertising Events

2010 - 2011

Label Magazine | Editorial Illustrator

Nottingham, UK

Loughborough, UK

Loughborough University, UK

Skills IT | Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Dreamweaver (Limited) Flash (limited) | Unity3D | Microsoft Word | Mac User Hand Crafted Process’ | Silk Screen Printing | Woodcut Process | Lino Etching Process | Book Binding: Chinese, Japanese & Perfect.

Publications January 2013

Ray Gun Zine Feature Competition | One of the winning entries www.RayGunpress.com

Volunteering 2012 - 2013

BBC | The Big Questions | Runner | Volunteer

Leicester and York (Runner over the course of two weekends) - 2012

Illuminating York Festival 2012 | Volunteer York, England

- 2012

Aesthetica Film Festival 2012 | Volunteer York, UK

2011 - 2012

Presentation from HKDI at Guangdou University | Speaker Guangdou, China

2011 - 2012

Mr Lee Metal Workshop | Poverty Stricken Project | Yau Ma Tei Hong Kong, China

Awards - 2013

Top Graduate Skills Assessment Award 2013 Loughborough University, UK

2004 - 2008

Duke of Edinburgh Awards | Bronze, Silver and Gold Completed in the North Yorkshire Moors, England

Interests Graphic design | Murakami | yoga | music | volunteering

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UX / UI Design

Illustration

Book Design

07

08

Personal Promotion

Interdisciplinary

09

Tshirts & Posters

UX

JrDrop App

Strange Occurrences

傳話遊戲

Sketchbooks Personal Works

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Storyboard Design

Advertising

Editorial Design

Aquatic Passages

10

Book Binding Personal works

Bambooman

Discover Europe

UX

jrDrop App year

2013

place

Loughborough Uni

01

Casually browsing the Tedtalk lectures one day - a talk titled Do Schools Kill Creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson caught my attention.

It made me consider the lack of music lessons there were whilst I was in Primary school. From here onwards the idea of jrDrop snowballed into a self - initiated project. jrDrop is a portable (landscape layout) iPad App that will be placed in Primary School classrooms across the UK. It’s aim is to give children a wider range of global music to learn, play and explore - whilst still keeping that element of fun in the classroom during music lessons.

Africa

Greece China

one. simple. click.

France

Features.

All three directions express the apps original concept, we should let children explore a wider range of global music.

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STRANGE OCCURRENCES 02 year

2013

place

Loughborough Uni

A small shop in Yorkshire called Handmade in Helmsley contacted me about stocking my illustration works in their store starting June 2013 - this is how Strange Occurrences came to light - this isn’t just any old calender however, there is small monthly tasks and daily doings that you must complete to move on to the next month - my design focus was for this piece to be interactive and playful

Ed

傳話遊戲 year

Spring 2012

place

Hong Kong, China

03

Chinese Whispers ( 傳話遊戲 ) was a brief which entitled you to chose a topic of your choice to explore through book design.

My aim was to promote myself as an illustrator at that time and so I chose to explore my personal illustrated diary of my time spent in Hong Kong . This developed into a narrative which involved England’s popular childrens game, Chinese Whispers.

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AQUATIC PASSAGES year

Winter 2012

place

Loughborough Uni, UK

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This self-directed project aimed to improve my use of limiting colour and story telling, whilst also aiming to improve my story boarding of narrative. Using digital drawing as my main medium I tried to create an atmosphere which would attract my target audience with excitement by testing and exploring various view points and characters.

A&P

BAMBOOMAN year

Winter 2012

place

Loughborough Uni, UK

05

A live brief which enabled me to work closely with my client.

The Bambooman project aimed to advertise a hip hop club night in Nottingham - I also decided to advertise Bambooman as an artist by screen printing T-shirts and flyers for the event.

above | Screen Printed Flyer Finals | right | Final t-shirts

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DISCOVER EUROPE year

Winter 2012

place

Hong Kong, China

06

An Editorial Design brief with a twist! Given as a project by Hong Kong Design Institute, the twist for me as a Westerner was this book had to be bilingual. With limited knowledge in written Cantonese I was given guidance by Google translate and my class via MSN. However, the brief was insightful and a great challenge.

My aim for this project was to explore four European cities which I’d visited and collected primary research from previously and to then deliver this information in a clean, crisp and inviting format.

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Personal Promotion year

Winter 2012

place

Loughborough Uni, UK

07

A self initiated brief which enables me to explore my inner entrepreneurial side. The aims of this project were to explore my self branding as a creative illustrator and designer to those out in the industry - using screen printing as my medium for this project, I decided to produce a set of T-shirts, posters and leaflets which were all largely influenced by my years study in Hong Kong at Hong Kong Design Institute.

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Interdisciplinary Project

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year

Spring 2011

place

Hong Kong, China

collaboration

Cheung Pok Wan, Kwoki Vicki, Cheng Hong Ting, Natalie Cheng

The aims of this project was to present a design proposal effectively to clients and audiences from various backgrounds the slogan - ‘Enhancing Learning Experience’ . Our job was to try and enhance the learning experience of students who will study at the new Kwun Tong campus (which is in conjunction with HKDI) starting summer 2014. Working with team members of multidisciplinary backgrounds, this being two graphic designers and two interior design students, we were able to combine our knowledge of design in our specialist areas and focus our direction towards the idea of creating the feeling of a ‘homely environment’ in the new school - for a sense of comfort and familiarity whilst approaching a new experience of university life.

Image taken from HKDI.com

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SKETCHBOOKS year

Always

place

Everywhere

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Least when I very expect it something will happen, be it on the underground, as I’m doing my food shop, as I’m cycling back from the studio, all of these exciting daily happenings go into my sketchbook. It’s a way for me to keep a track of all things I find interesting. It also helps to reflect back to if say, I’m given a specific brief and I have a situation sketched down that comes in handy. I carry a sketchbook everywhere and have done for many years. It’s important to my practise as a creative to keep my ideas flowing. Here is a small preview as to my most recent sketchbook adventures.

above | Hong Kongs daily sightings

left | Dissertation Brainstorm

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BOOK BINDING year

2011 - 2013

place

various

10

Books have always intrigued me, since reading as a young child to admiring the illustrations and bind of a book - it’s a love that never grows old. Here is a small selection of books I have made over the years. Enjoy!

Thank you.

• sarahburgess4@gmail.com •