Kelly Chapmancurriculam vitae

senior artworker

contact info:07921 639 232 eddwoodchapman@hotmail.com

date of birth: February 1977

education:

1988 – 1993St. Marks C.E. School10 GCSE’s

current employer:

Kumquat London LtdFreelance Senior Creative ArtworkerJune 2009 – Current

job description:

I have been freelancing since 2009, setting up as a Limited company in 2010. Since then I have been fortunate to work with some great agencies; Inferno, Imagination, Jack Morton, Ogilvy, Purpose, Radley Yeldar, SAS, Sectorlight, Small Back Room and Venture3 to name a few! Topping up my skills, learning new ones and working with and preparing artwork on some fantastic projects often in multiple languages, ranging from POS, large format POS, event signage, van livery, press ads, leaflets, multiple page brochures and annual reports for clients such as British Airways, Epson, Expedia, Homeserve, HP, KMPG, Land Securities, National Geographic Channel, Nokia, Orange, The SouthBank, UK Film Council, Unite, William Hill, and VMware, the latter enabling me to experience working on-site’ in Copenhagen, Vienna, Barcelona and San Francisco, keeping the ‘production’ side of things running smoothly, liaising with local suppliers and creating last minute and additional signage AW etc. I am a systematic, thorough senior artworker, with a creative eye for detail. A place for everything, and everything in its place!

applemac skills: CS5.5/CS6/CC/CC2014 InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat.

previous employer:

Columns Design28 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JEBrian Watson – Production Director – 020 7395 6500

position:Senior ArtworkerApril 2006 – December 2008

job description:

I initially joined Columns as a freelancer and as the company grew I was offered a permanent position as a member of the production team. My workload was prepared every morning by our scheduler and from there I managed myself, liaising directly with designers and account managers, taking briefs for various stages of each job, ranging from amendments, text input/typesetting, layout, image correction and final artwork. Working at Columns gave me the opportunity to prepare artwork for a wide range of branding and corporate identity projects, including; large format signage and POS, floor media, campaign communications, annual reports, direct mail, corporate literature, advertising and digital work for websites and animations etc. In addition to artwork I also improved my retouching skills at Columns and they are were used regularly during my working day there. Clients I have worked for include: ACCA, Advertising Standards Authority, AXA, Grant Thornton, Institution of Civil Engineers, InterContinental Hotels Group, Lakeside, London Stock Exchange, Travers Smith, MS Society and Sue Ryder.

registered in England and Wales no: 7306159.

Kelly Chapmancurriculam vitae

senior artworker

previous employer:

FinisterreShiva Building, The Tanneries, 49 – 55 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XHSally Horrox – Managing Director – 07973 116 234

position:Artworker/IT ManagerApril 2001 – January 2006

job description:

I took full control of artwork and become actively involved in recruiting, training and managing a junior, completing the artwork team. I was involved in weekly work status meetings enabling me to manage my own workload and that of my team, liaising directly with suppliers and printers and overseeing all final artwork that left the studio. I also took on the responsibility of ensuring the smooth day to day running of the studio kit including transferring the studio from system 9 to OSX, overseeing the work server, internet, email and ISDN connections, archiving via DVD, daily backup and any problems that occurred with any of macs in the studio, assisted only by an external IT support company if needed. Clients I worked for include Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank of Scotland, ITV Digital, Royal & Sun Alliance, HM Land Registry, Cancer Research UK and Sainsbury’s Bank.

previous employer:

The Formation Creative Consultants59 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3QWAdrian Kilby – Managing Director

position:Artworker/TypesetterJanuary 1996 – December 2000

job description:

I joined The Formation as a junior designer in January 1996. With lots of client contact including taking briefs, typesetting and artworking, sourcing suppliers and overseeing the final print. I was fortunate enough to be part of the development of a number of high street brands, designing logos, brand literature, brand packaging, exhibition models and visualising interior design schemes. Clients I worked for include Pret A Manger, Benugo, Nigel Burgess, The University of Durham, Coffee Republic and Madame Tussaud’s.

previous employer:

Portobello Press69-71 Scrubs Lane, College Park, London NW10 6AHPeter Murtagh – Director

position:Mac Operator/TypesetterJuly 1995 – December 1995

job description:

Progressed my typesetting skills, produced layouts & set up my 1st ever artwork for leaflets, 4 colour brochures, logos and stationery. I gained a little repro, pre-press, printing press and colour separation knowledge.

previous employer:

Hippo Graphics9 Rutland Studios, Cumberland Park, Scrubs Lane, London NW10Dick Segal – Director

position:Junior Studio DesignerJuly 1993 – June 1995

job description:

Client liaison, basic office duties (filing, faxing, admin), technical drawing,maps, floorplans and illustrations. Design and layout of brochures, leaflets,corporate logos and stationery.

Kelly Chapmancurriculam vitae

senior artworker

likes =)

Pizza Express, Caerphilly cheese, cinema, BBQs, vodka/tonic ice and a slice, seedless grapes, Sugar Snap peas, shoes, shoes, shoes, fancy dress parties, cooking & baking cakes, Jaffa Cakes, Kentucky bourbon, jasmine flowers, strawberries, blueberries, American Werewolf in London, recycling, pugs, growing salad veg in window boxes, shopping, more shopping, Chelsea FC, crunchy peanut butter, boxing (the watching not the taking part!), VW Beetles, Byron Burgers (all of them!) sleep, 80’s, soul, funk, red wine, freshly cut lillies, Greek salads (minus the olives), my cat Woody (RIP), Edamene beans, aerobics (altho I haven’t done any for about 5 years!), milky ‘Millicano’ coffees, sit-down desk dancing and miming the words, biro sketching, thunder storms, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, grande hot chocolate no whipped from Starbucks, Christmas, photographing creepy crawlies, girlie novels (fiction of course!), Vietnamese food, any kind of animal (except spiders or slugs see below), Lindor chocolates ‘made by Lindts finest chocolatiers’ (the ones in the red foil!), mashed potato, Jack Daniels and full fat coke, Vogel bread, Nutella, sambuca, dishwashers, nights in with my boyfriend Sean and white chocolate chip cookies (pref chewy ones!).

dislikes =(

Pizza Hut, mushrooms, raisins, limp over-cooked broccoli, school-like custard,dark rum, liars, doctor appointments, floods, slugs, tennis on TV, fatigue, olives (black or green), step classes, plastic bags, natural yoghurt, lemongrass, tube ragers, hairy spiders, non-hairy spiders, McDonald’s and Burger King, washing up, bad hair extensions, sweet fizzy white wine, dramas-out of-crisis, skinny coke, marmite (hate it), ginger (the root not the hair colour!), ignorance, apricots, dirty fingernails, golf, mosquitoes and pollution.