• Designing bespoke leather products to reflect a brand’s identity. Creating new concepts for clients working to their budgets.requirement. Main CAD programs used are Illustrator & Photoshop. Using project/account management skills as well as understanding of brand identity & product design. • Ensure that concepts produced are practical and technically accurate. • Liaise with the factory regarding designs & Photographing new products as they arrive. • Designing marketing content including newsletters and presentations created using InDesign. • Timetabling Design Work Schedule & circulate design reports to members of staff. • First point of contact for design queries and consultations creating rapport with clients. • Using WordPress to update company website. July 2014 - Present Head of Design Amethyst London (Now part of Curious Book Co.) July - October 2013 Designer (Intern) Amethyst London • Arranging weekly shifts for all members of staff. • Providing members with appropriate drinks & service when requested. • Assisting cellar maintenance when Senior Staff members are on Annual Leave. August 2009 - January 2016 Senior Bar Assistant Boxmoor Social Club September 2012 Design Assistant (Work Exp.) Hemel Hempstead School • Assisting GCSE, AS Level & A Level student offering advice on projects & design. Branding, Product & Graphic Design. Ambitious, innovative & meticulous offering ideas-led creativity through a strategic design process. Capable of making decisions through problem solving whilst being critically aware. Able to combine teamwork alongside self motivation & self management. Competent expressing concepts, designs and ideas through oral, written & visual communication. • Branding - Implementing/Intepreting Identity • Colour Theory & Understanding • Concept Development • Model Making • Photography - Product & editorial for web • Printing • Presentation/Layout composition & design • Sketching & Marker Rendering • Typography • Understanding Materials & Manufacture Creative Skills Employment History • Managing design & production of branded notebooks while monitoring stock & developing made to measure designs subject to each individual brief. Updating company imagery & marketing. Education Achievements • Assisting sales team at Amethyst London generating 110 new orders since July 2014. • Working alongside notable brands; such as BMW. • Exhbitied at New Designers exhibition at the Business Design Centre in July 2014. • Fulfilled a design internship during second year of study at University leading to full time employment upon graduation. • Participated in a Sports Tour of South Africa in 2008. • Richard Adams Product Design Course Director, Uni. of Hertfordshire [email protected] References May 2016 - Present Design & Production Manager Curious Book Co. 2011 - 2014 University of Hertfordshire BA Product Design (Hons) - 2:1 2010 - 2011 Hemel Hempstead School A Level English Language - C History - C Product Design - C 2010 AS Level Extended Project Qualification - B Physical Education - D 2009 - 2010 GCSE - 11 A-C • David Sear Secretary, Boxmoor Social Club [email protected] Jamie Allen [email protected] (+44) 07949 409777 uk.linkedin.com/in/jamieallendesigner behance.net/jamieallendesign www.jamieallendesign.co.uk Creative Software Favourites QPR Brooklyn Nets Red Hot Chili Peppers Paella Beavertown Gamma Ray Paul Smith Nike New York

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• Designing bespoke leather products to reflect a brand’s identity. Creating new concepts for clients working to their budgets.requirement. Main CAD programs used are Illustrator & Photoshop. Using project/account management skills as well as understanding of brand identity & product design.• Ensure that concepts produced are practical and technically accurate.• Liaise with the factory regarding designs & Photographing new products as they arrive.• Designing marketing content including newsletters and presentations created using InDesign.• Timetabling Design Work Schedule & circulate design reports to members of staff.• First point of contact for design queries and consultations creating rapport with clients.• Using WordPress to update company website.

July 2014 - PresentHead of Design Amethyst London (Now part of Curious Book Co.)

July - October 2013Designer (Intern) Amethyst London

• Arranging weekly shifts for all members of staff.• Providing members with appropriate drinks & service when requested.• Assisting cellar maintenance when Senior Staff members are on Annual Leave.

August 2009 - January 2016Senior Bar Assistant Boxmoor Social Club

September 2012Design Assistant (Work Exp.) Hemel Hempstead School

• Assisting GCSE, AS Level & A Level student offering advice on projects & design.

Branding, Product & Graphic Design. Ambitious, innovative & meticulous offering ideas-led creativity through a strategic designprocess. Capable of making decisions through problem solving whilst being critically aware. Able to combine teamwork alongside self

motivation & self management. Competent expressing concepts, designs and ideas through oral, written & visual communication.

• Branding - Implementing/Intepreting Identity• Colour Theory & Understanding

• Concept Development• Model Making

• Photography - Product & editorial for web • Printing

• Presentation/Layout composition & design • Sketching & Marker Rendering

• Typography• Understanding Materials & Manufacture

Creative SkillsEmployment History

• Managing design & production of branded notebooks while monitoring stock & developing made to measure designs subject to each individual brief. Updating company imagery & marketing.

Education

Achievements

• Assisting sales team at Amethyst Londongenerating 110 new orders since July 2014.

• Working alongside notable brands; such as BMW.• Exhbitied at New Designers exhibition at the

Business Design Centre in July 2014.• Fulfilled a design internship during

second year of study at University leading tofull time employment upon graduation.

• Participated in a Sports Tour of South Africain 2008.

• Richard AdamsProduct Design Course Director, Uni. of Hertfordshire

[email protected]

References

May 2016 - PresentDesign & Production Manager Curious Book Co.

2011 - 2014University of Hertfordshire BA Product Design (Hons) - 2:1