richard george

freelance artworker and retoucher

About

Very experienced artworker, who has worked upon a vast amount of advertising material. Such as DM Packs, POS, Posters, Photo Retouching, National Press Ads, Brochures, Logo design and creation, Taxi Hoardings and Bus Hoardings, Bags, Badges, Mouse Mats and Pens general merchandise. Working in a team producing high accurate artwork for financial advertising and supporting the designers and account teams with very highly finished mock-ups of work and display material. Working with Adobe Creative Suite CS5, Quark 8, Microsoft Word, power-point and Excel. With good knowledge of Macs IT issues over the years. I am very versatile able to design and create digital banner ads. Specialties: Artworker, Studio Artist, Retouching, Illustration, Designing, Mounting. Working in Financial Advertising on POS, DM Packs, Fast and Accurate and adaptable, High end production output and retouching. Versatile on most digital formats and Software.

Country

united kingdom

City

chatham

Industry

media production

Skill

retouching, illustration, quarkxpress, brochures, adobe creative suite, mac, logo design, posters, corporate identity, indesign, graphic design, photoshop, typography, brand development, creative direction, adobe acrobat, illustrator, pre press, image manipulation, newsletters, advertising, direct mail, typesetting

Experience

freelance artworker

sea-ltd

2012-4 - 2012-5 · 2 mos

* Creating artwork on Network Cabling 6 page folding leaflet A4 Finished size and Web Banners, Retouching Photography and Changing Copy and Design. * Artworking, ParkerSteel 4 page A3 Finish internal Leaflet checking imagery and flowing text to fit. * Producing Stamp effect Logos on various themes required to be placed transparent onto coloured backgrounds at various sizes. * Producing web elements mainly tables and charts for School web-site.

freelance illustrator

zoomandoo

2011-9 - 2012-5 · 9 mos

Illustrator for Digital story boards and print

creative artworker

saga holidays

2012-4 - 2012-4 · 1 mo

Retouching Photography and creating National Press ads. Keeping to Guidelines and Style sheets. Using Indesign and Photoshop.

freelance creative artworker

masius

2011-3 - 2011-4 · 2 mos

Freelancing as an Artworker on ISA Campagines for Fidelity International and Jupiter Asset Management. Producing single and Double page spread Ads.

freelance artworker

the communications agency

2010-8 - 2010-9 · 2 mos

Freelance Artworker. Working upon ArgosCampaign and amending general accounts literature, Photo Manipulated Visuals and Retouching, Sample Ads and Posters,Presentation Boards.

freelance artworker

gravity london

2009-10 - 2009-11 · 2 mos

Freelance Artworker working on Adecco Corporate Brochures and Eccleaiastical Insurance/Risk Brochures and posters literature.

artworker and retoucher and studio artist

the gate worldwide

1999-7 - 2009-3 · 9 yrs 9 mos

artworker and studio artist

the gate london

1999-7 - 2009-3 · 9 yrs 9 mos

Production Artworker, Duties; Artworking, Retouching, Display and Presentation Paper enginner, Designer, Illustrator, Studio Artist, Creating high quality artwork from design concepts via scamps to final out-put to print. Creating various presentation mock-ups of folders/envelopes, gift boxes, stationary, client visuals and mounting for display purposes.

studio artist

kilmartin baker

1988-7 - 1998-7 · 10 yrs 1 mo

Studio Artist and Desk Top Publishing Artist. Creating Commercial Ads, Brochures, Banners and Posters. Using equipment such as the PMT Camera (photo mechanical transfer) Early Colour Photo printers, drawing boards for paste-up and Early Mac Computers.

freelance artworker and retoucher

bs&t ltd

2012-6 - Present · 14 yrs 4 mos

Working on holiday brochures creating maps: countries and regions, adding locations plotting travel destinations. Adding to brochure style the terms and conditions and amendments to brochure copy and table details of hotel booking costs and dates. Retouching photos within the brochure, colour correcting and enhancing the images feel to page content and season.