Brooke Boyanton

Senior Designer

London, United Kingdom
Energetic and ambitious Graphic Designer with a fresh, modern style and the ability to maintain strong visual identities and brands. Highly creative with experience in B2B, B2C, corporate communications, member communications, working in a fast-paced production environment while retaining a high standard of design in both online and offline media.

Experienced in client facing roles with good communication and organisational skills. Adept at managing and working with teams and negotiating with suppliers. Familiar with a variety of platforms Mac, PC, SGI. Strong abilities working with InDesign, Illustrator, Quark Express, Photoshop, Dreamweaver CS2, 3, 4 and 5, CSS, XHTML, HTML, HTML5, Joomla and JQuery, with some knowledge of PHP and JavaScript. The ability to work on digital all the way through to print.

Enjoys working with new technology and discovering interesting and innovative ways to engage the target audience.

Work Experience

Babble Creative

Freelance Designer

Self-employed, providing UX web design with strong emphasis on usability and accessibility, out of-the-box print campaigns and exhibition design. Clients include: Ethical Corporation (B2B), Grassroot Media (B2B) www.grassrootmedia.com, Jessica Pratt (Soprano) www.jessicapratt.org, McCarrison Society, Mother and Child Foundation, Stratagem 7 (investment), Anthony Spencer www.anthony-spencer.co.uk (interiors).

Key achievements • Grassroot Media Limited website and print material • design and coordination of an exhibition about the benefits of DHA and the brain, the exhibition was so well received it will now travel to France, Canada and the United States
October 2009 - London, United Kingdom

The Pensions Regualtor

Interaction Designer

Brighton, United Kingdom

IPPF

Digital Designer

October 2013 - 2020 United Kingdom

The Royal Society Of Medicine

Senior Designer

Successfully manage and coordinate graphic design projects from concept through to completion. Collaborate with internal clients to create vision, conceive designs and constantly meet deadlines and requirements. Create fresh and innovative ideas and designs, applying them to the different demographics and target audiences of the RSM, One Wimpole Street (B2B) and Chandos House (B2B).

Key achievements • rebrand of the RSM and brand creation for One Wimpole Street (the events arm of the society) • design implementation for email marketing • earning several MemCom awards. Staff supervised • Lead designer and brand manager also allocating work for freelance designers.
October 2005 - October 2013 United Kingdom

TMP Worldwide

Freelance Designer

Working on various projects ranging from Retirement homes to the Maserati and Ferrari Charity Ball.

Key achievements • Maserati and Ferrari Ball invites, flyers and advertisements. They loved the style so much they stayed with the design for continuing years.
September 2004 - August 2005 Brisbane, Australia

AMA Queensland

Senior Designer

Delivering imaginative attention grabbing designs for lobbying and campaign material. The design and management of DoctorQ the AMA’s monthly current affairs magazine. Lead designer on the AMA Health and Lifestyle Expo held at the Brisbane convention centre. Updating and maintaining the website.

Key achievements • rebrand of the AMA Health and Lifestyle Expo • AMA national award winner for best campaign • Supervised 1 junior designer for a period of 1 year.
February 2003 - August 2005 Australia

Peter Ray

Freelance Designer

Creating POS posters and promotion material for shopping centres, cinemas and retail environments.
December 2002 - February 2003 Australia

Crest Electronics

Freelance Designer

Design and artwork for the Crest Electronics product catalogue.
September 2002 - November 2002 Australia

Dixon Homes And Tamawood Homes

Designer

Started as a Design Junior and was promoted
to Advertising Manager. Staff managed • 1 Junior designers for a period of 2 years.
October 1999 - September 2002 Australia

Education

Media Training UK

Designing And Creating Emailshots

Understanding emailshots, planning your emailshot, writing good email copy, preparing your graphics, laying out your design, dreamweaver in tables
March 2012 - March 2012 London, United Kingdom

Media Training UK

CSS

Standards compliant mark up, clean, structured pages, structuring content, styling text, controlling colour, controlling colour and typography, controlling layout with positioning, page layout, styling forms, creating a print page.
March 2011 - March 2011 London, United Kingdom

Media Training UK

Photoshop CS3: Advanced

October 2010 - October 2010 London, United Kingdom

Photofusion

Studio LIghting

May 2008 - May 2008 London, United Kingdom

Photofusion

Digital SLR

February 2006 - February 2006 London, United Kingdom

Qantm College

3D Animation SGI

Alais Wavefront, Softimage
March 1999 - June 1999 Brisbane, Australia

Morningside TAFE

Advanced 2 year Diploma of Multimedia

• Graphic design • Web design • Video editing • 3D animation • Mixed media
February 1997 - November 1999 Brisbane, Australia

Morningside TAFE

Certificate IV Multimedia

February 1996 - November 1996 Brisbane, Australia

Awards

MemComm Awards

Annual Report - Highly commended

2012

MemComm Awards

Brand development - Highly commended

2010

MemComm Awards

Best Annual Report 2008 - Highly commended

2008

MemComm Awards

Best recruitment pack - Highly Commended

2007

AMA Queensland

Best campaign - Rural Health Week

2005

Skills

After Effects, Animation, Art Direction, Audition, B2B, B2C, Branding, Bridge, Corporate Identity Development, Creative Suite, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, GitHub, Graphic Designer, HTML / CSS, Html Emails, HTML5, Illustration, Illustrator, Indesign, JavaScript, Joomla, Jquery/Javascript, Photography, Photoshop, Story Boarding, User Interface Design, Web Design, Web Development,