Samantha Charlesworth
Creative Artworker for Center Parcs UK
Doncaster, United Kingdom
07432126587
be.net/charlesworth
My life ambition is to influence, inspire and to create design for a community, environment or even as a personal gift. There's nothing more satisfying than knowing you can create a piece of work that can have a great effect on a vast amount of people. I love designing because it can transform something that once was so simple, into a master piece.
Not only can I bring fresh new ideas to the table, I have also learnt to adapt myself into working fast, efficiently and to have fun along the way. The only thing that is equivalent to design for me, is to have a great personality and to express yourself through your work. This I believe, is what sells your designs.
Not only can I bring fresh new ideas to the table, I have also learnt to adapt myself into working fast, efficiently and to have fun along the way. The only thing that is equivalent to design for me, is to have a great personality and to express yourself through your work. This I believe, is what sells your designs.
Work Experience
River Island
Sales Assistant
During the time of my studies which gave a great impact on my social skills.
April 2011
- November 2012
Doncaster, United Kingdom
Center Parcs
Graphic Designer and Artworker in Marketing
I create designs from a varied amount of briefs that come in to the studio. Center Parcs is a leisure and hospitality sector and have a lot of their own brands and concessions within the company, as well as business challenges to enhance the company for staff.
Working from a variety of food and beverage, retail, leisure activities such as: outdoor sports; indoor sports; water sports; nature; creative and children specific activities. Whether it's pre-existing material to be amended or re-branded, or a complete new branding required with skills using vectors, typography, layout and editorial design, illustration by hand or digital, web and social media platforms as well as print media and learning about print production.
I have also got control over pre-arrival material which I solely organise according to fixed schedules, giving me analytical and organisational skills to meet weekly deadlines. It also has given me a wider knowledge of the companies activities as we list all of the pre-arrival activities on a gridded design – the challenge is to make it look formal but pretty!
As my experience and knowledge has widened, I have been tasked with several 'bigger' projects with branding, web portals and illustrative books to name a few; that have given me the opportunity to create scamps, digital/hand designs/ proposals, presentations and a whole suite of assets to cover any platform or print production that is required. This is then followed through with production ideas, artworking and installation and then later applied to the extended villages if needed.
I am forever learning at Center Parcs and even more eager to learn so much more within the industry!
Working from a variety of food and beverage, retail, leisure activities such as: outdoor sports; indoor sports; water sports; nature; creative and children specific activities. Whether it's pre-existing material to be amended or re-branded, or a complete new branding required with skills using vectors, typography, layout and editorial design, illustration by hand or digital, web and social media platforms as well as print media and learning about print production.
I have also got control over pre-arrival material which I solely organise according to fixed schedules, giving me analytical and organisational skills to meet weekly deadlines. It also has given me a wider knowledge of the companies activities as we list all of the pre-arrival activities on a gridded design – the challenge is to make it look formal but pretty!
As my experience and knowledge has widened, I have been tasked with several 'bigger' projects with branding, web portals and illustrative books to name a few; that have given me the opportunity to create scamps, digital/hand designs/ proposals, presentations and a whole suite of assets to cover any platform or print production that is required. This is then followed through with production ideas, artworking and installation and then later applied to the extended villages if needed.
I am forever learning at Center Parcs and even more eager to learn so much more within the industry!
September 2013
- Present
United Kingdom
Education
University Of Lincoln (England)
Ba(Hons) Graphic Design
September 2010
- Present
Lincoln, United Kingdom
Languages
English (Fluent),
Skills
Adobe Photoshop,
Fine Art,
Adobe After Effects,
Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Indesign,
Advertising,
Branding,
Campaign Design,
Creative Writing,
Etching,
Fashion Design,
Graphic Design,
Illustration,
Interior Design,
Letter Press,
Mono Printing,
Photography,
Poster Design,
Screen Printing,
Sports,
Sam says Create...
This is a brand for my personal designs that I display through social media platforms, Etsy and eBay.
It is a brand that allows me to extend my creative abilities away from work and allows me to learn much more about the current and modern design of today. From starting this brand in 2017, it has given me the opportunity to organise, brand, market and create material of all sorts – print, digital or hand drawings; typographic layouts/caligraphy designs; art with watercolours, inks and oil paintings; stationery for special occasions; print designs with foil blocking from home and much more.
I feel that creating this brand for myself has given me challenges and the ability to get my name out there and it's one step closer to help brighten up the community that I live in!
It is a brand that allows me to extend my creative abilities away from work and allows me to learn much more about the current and modern design of today. From starting this brand in 2017, it has given me the opportunity to organise, brand, market and create material of all sorts – print, digital or hand drawings; typographic layouts/caligraphy designs; art with watercolours, inks and oil paintings; stationery for special occasions; print designs with foil blocking from home and much more.
I feel that creating this brand for myself has given me challenges and the ability to get my name out there and it's one step closer to help brighten up the community that I live in!