TypographyDesign

Thumbnails

Legibility

Illustration

PhotographyMarg

ins

Call-To-Action

Text

Lorem Ipsum

Blackletter

Sans Serif

RGB

MonoColumns

Align

Justified

Die Cut

SerifVectorTem

plate

PrintTransitional

GlyphicDigitalCMYK

07990 58 45 45 email@philipwilliamclark.co.uk philipwilliamclark.co.uk

linkedin.com/in/philipwilliamclark P R O F I L E

20+ years in Graphic Design, Publishing and Marketing

Expert in Adobe InDesign,

Photoshop and Illustrator

Confident with Mac and PC software and systems

including the latest Adobe CCS and Microsoft Office

S K I L L S

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Acrobat

Premier Pro

WordPress

PowerPoint

Print

Digital

Typography

Marketing

Graphic Designer

Highly creative, innovative and passionate about design, with 20+ years of experience. An excellent communicator with a flair for managing clients, a dynamic team player, confident, versatile, comfortable with responsibility, calm under pressure, with a keen and contemporary eye for detail.

Graphic Designer Clear22 5 years

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Expanded the range of in-house services offered, including more comprehensive websites, PowerPoint presentations, bespoke illustration and web animation.

Cut costs and generated greater revenue streams.

Gained full autonomy over projects and client relationships leading to more profitable outcomes.

Senior Group Art Editor Games Division Dennis Publishing 10 years

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Promoted from Art Editor of PCZONE magazine to Senior Group Art Editor of the Games Division, with responsibility for controlling monthly budgets up to £10,000.

Led the design team in a re-design and re-launch, increasing ABC by 200% thereby tripling advertising revenue and making PCZONE Britain’s best selling PC Games magazine.

Managed five design and production teams within the Games Division, as well as commissioning photography and illustration, directing shoots and never missing the £50,000 monthly print slots.

Created and implemented set-up of new more streamlined and effective production systems, markedly increasing efficiency.

Freelance Designer and R&D Art Editor IPC Magazines 6 years

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Produced over 10,000 successful page layouts for NME, Melody Maker, VOX, FAST, Angler’s Mail and Woman’s Weekly.

Set up the design section of the new R&D department - Special Projects and New Projects Development within IPC’s Specialist Group with the remit to explore possible new launches that could exploit advertising revenues in the untapped young mens market.

Led the design within the R&D team culminating in the launch of a revolutionary and commercially successful young men’s magazine. page 2

Some of the examples of design work displayed were developed during my period of employment with Clear22

H O B B I E S & I N T E R E S T S

the gym 50’s music oil painting

audio books sci-fi rat rods

Q U A L I F I C A T I O N S

BA (Hons) in Graphic DesignLondon College of Communication

Foundation in Art & Design

Basingstoke College of Technology

10 GCSE pass or higherincluding Maths and English

Full portfolio available to view at: philipwilliamclark.co.uk

C H R O N O L O G I C A L LY

FEBRUARY 2013 NOVEMBER 2018 CLEAR22

Day-to-day, I spent the last 5 years working independently or as part of the team, on a huge variety of projects from creating branded Word templates in 15 minutes to a 190 page Regulations for Water Quality brochure, from leaflets explaining the retrieval of space debris to targeted term diaries covering year groups 3-4, 5-6 and 7-8, small to large format, digital and litho print, websites from design to build, advertising, logos, branding, brochures, reports, technical diagrams, animation, photography, tabloids, exhibitions, PowerPoint presentations and templates, illustration, signage, icons, digital newsletters, point of sale, campaigns, instructional teaching guides, digital channel promotions, commercial vehicle vinyls, info-graphics, packaging, pop-up banners, stationery and more.

AUGUST 2004 FEBRUARY 2013 SINGLE PARENT

Pausing my career to focus on my children and support my father through his battle with MS, presented opportunities to give back to my community; as a School Governor, Chairman of our local Art Club and lead organiser of the first Basingstoke Festival of Art & Crafts, gaining the Mayoral Community Award in 2013 for my efforts. I also spent a rewarding time caring for the elderly and working part-time with severely autistic children at The Loddon School.

APRIL 1994 AUGUST 2004 DENNIS PUBLISHING

I worked freelance, then full-time, then as Art Editor on magazines for Dennis Publishing where my responsibilities included producing great looking, monthly magazines on time and within budget, managing the design and production teams, as well as commissioning photography and illustration, directing photo-shoots and maintaining the magazine archive.

AUGUST 1988 APRIL 1994 IPC MAGAZINES

In my early career I worked as a freelance designer, mostly at IPC Magazines, on a variety of magazines, as well as within the marketing department, eventually taking the design lead in the Research and Development Team.

WebsitesAlignment

Campaigns

Channels

Exhibitions

Stationery

Brochures

Presentations

Grid

Contrast

Branding

OpacityColour

MonoGradientScript

Icons

Margins

Swatch

Logos

Packaging

Animation

Photography

Info-graphics