Sam Morgan
designer
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:
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Pitch and develop email content
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Develop the narrative, layout and designs of email campaigns
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Make and update slices for build team
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Collaborate with a Copywriter I’d design the layout for email content and design layout
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Create animated elements for email design
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Bring my creative flare to new projects through group idea sessions and presenting new ideas
April 2022 to March 2023
Junior Digital Artworker
As well as general artworker tasks, I designed social media post, web content and marketing content:
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Slice and edit social media videos for promotions
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Pitch and develop social media content
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Develop the narrative, layout and designs of email campaigns, re-utilised for banners on site
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Create wireframe design for website landing pages
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Redesign modules on site, which matured my understanding of UX and UI design capabilities
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Make and update clipping path assets
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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:
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I maintained an organised schedule and document system, to increase productivity
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Discuss UX strategies to encourage sales
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Create social content across multiple platforms, in collaboration with the Social Media Manager
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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:
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Hand illustrated a portrait, which was sliced in Photoshop
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Animated the character motion in Photoshop
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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:
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Discussing Client needs and building an understanding of the brand identity to create a design that represented the company heritage.
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Completing illustration using Photoshop and creating packaging mock-ups in Illustrator
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Manufacturing the packaging design using lino print for store display.
PROJECT EXAMPLES