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Professional Career

Here's an overview of my professional career. See Projects for a closer look at the projects and campaigns I've worked on. 

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July 2023 to August 2023

Middleweight Creative Designer (Team Disney)

ARMADILLO

     Assisting and creative for Email marketing content:

 

  • Pitch and develop email content

  • Develop the narrative, layout and designs of email campaigns

  • Make and update slices for build team

  • Collaborate with a Copywriter I’d design the layout for email content and design layout

  • Create animated elements for email design

  • Bring my creative flare to new projects through group idea sessions and presenting new ideas

PROJECT   EXAMPLES

April 2022 to March 2023

Junior Digital Artworker

As well as general artworker tasks, I designed social media post, web content and marketing content:

 

  • Slice and edit social media videos for promotions

  •  Pitch and develop social media content

  •  Develop the narrative, layout and designs of email campaigns, re-utilised for banners on site

  • Create wireframe design for website landing pages

  •  Redesign modules on site, which matured my understanding of UX and UI design capabilities

  •  Make and update clipping path assets

  • Collaborate with a Copywriter I’d design the layout for our Dyson Newsroom blog articles

since Jan 2022

Graphic Designer

LIBRARY CATS

Ad hoc design work for publishing start up:


- Generate digital content for use in social media campaigns
- Design web page layouts (mobile first; across all breakpoints) to hand over to the Web Development team

- Illustrate book cover for emerging authors

DESIGN  PROJECTS

ILLUSTRATION  PROJECTS

August 2019 to February 2020

Junior Digital Designer

PEACOCKS

At Peacocks I retouched and edited images using Photoshop, to create online promotions,  web graphics and social media content:

 

  • I maintained an organised schedule and document system, to increase productivity

  • Discuss UX strategies to encourage sales

  • Create social content across multiple platforms, in collaboration with the Social Media Manager

  • Created GIFs for social media using Photoshop and After Effects

PROJECT   EXAMPLES

2018

Animated Illustration

WEN

For the ‘100 Historical Welsh Women’ campaign, I generated an animated portrait of a historical figure:

 

  • Hand illustrated a portrait, which was sliced in Photoshop

  • Animated the character motion in Photoshop

  • Collaborated with a Copywriter to correctly portray the copy in the post

PROJECT   EXAMPLES

2017

Packaging Illustration

KIEHL'S

I illustrated a limited design for Kiehl’s Christmas packaging range in the Cardiff store:

 

  • Discussing Client needs and building an understanding of the brand identity to create a design that represented the company heritage.

  • Completing illustration using Photoshop and creating packaging mock-ups in Illustrator

  • Manufacturing the packaging design using lino print for store display.

PROJECT   EXAMPLES

© 2023 By Sam Morgan
Contact for Graphic Communication or Illustration based inquires.

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