Kazembe Hamadi
Commission/Freelance Illustrator & 2D Animator
London, United Kingdom
+44 (0) 7508 359 725
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A creative, easy going, hardworking and independent individual who takes initiative to solve problems. Proven time management skills by combining art practices, freelancing, and taking commissions while tackling full-time education with part-time employment. An accomplished exhibitor and creator contributing to the UK art, photography, and short film scene since 2002. Can work to a brief and accomplish deadlines. Familiar with both PC and Mac operating systems and an adaptive learner to new applications. Able to utilize and combine software applications to suit a client’s needs. Is familiar with digital file types, their associated programs, compression conditions, video codecs and data rates. A traditional and digital artist, using graphic design and illustration with an adaptable workflow for animation. Very adept with Adobe Creative Cloud applications, most notably Photoshop and After Effects. An understanding of print production, colour profiles and workspaces. Has successfully completed the Nikon Imaging Division Level 3 Digital Course with Jessops plc. A current member of the Slough-based creative independent company Resource Productions, recently accepted onto their list of creative collective members. Also holds three credential certifications from ScreenSkills online training and learning modules.
Work Experience
The Slough Hub
Artist
I was selected to create public art for the Artscape Slough Lamp Post Art Project from The Slough Hub.
An in situ mock-up was submitted and accepted for the project. I was later assigned a lamp post in Slough High Street to create a painting. My design is a stencil-based spray paint motif using French curves to create abstract shapes and forms in sandy beach tones.
#ARTSCAPE is an ambitious initiative to transform Slough through art, beautification, and environmental consciousness. It seeks to make Slough a beautiful, vibrant town that becomes a talking point for its unique attractions.
Discover more about me and other artists on the Slough Hub website:
https://thesloughhub.org/lampposts-artists/kazembe-hamadi/
An in situ mock-up was submitted and accepted for the project. I was later assigned a lamp post in Slough High Street to create a painting. My design is a stencil-based spray paint motif using French curves to create abstract shapes and forms in sandy beach tones.
#ARTSCAPE is an ambitious initiative to transform Slough through art, beautification, and environmental consciousness. It seeks to make Slough a beautiful, vibrant town that becomes a talking point for its unique attractions.
Discover more about me and other artists on the Slough Hub website:
https://thesloughhub.org/lampposts-artists/kazembe-hamadi/
August 2023
- September 2023
Slough, United Kingdom
Resource Productions
Graphic Designer
Freelance Artist for Resource Productions film projects and local creative events:
• I was asked by production company Resource Productions to create a poster design for their new feature film Little English. The film had a short nationwide cinema release in 2023.
• Graphic Designer for Flyer Films production Us & In Between, a BFI x Network funded short film, in association with Resource Productions and directed by Katia Shannon. Us & In Between recently had its World Premiere at the HollyShorts Film Festival 2023.
I created the film Title Treatment design with feedback from Katia Shannon and additional graphics by Motion Designer Steve Hill. I also created a fully credited one-sheet Poster Design asset for online and print campaign promotional use.
Resource Productions is a community interest company that works with local talent and helps to provide individuals with creative development programs and freelance opportunities within the film industry.
Skills: Advance Image Editing · Digital Painting · Print Design · Illustration · Graphic Design · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe Illustrator · Adobe Fresco · Adobe Lightroom · Corel Painter
• I was asked by production company Resource Productions to create a poster design for their new feature film Little English. The film had a short nationwide cinema release in 2023.
• Graphic Designer for Flyer Films production Us & In Between, a BFI x Network funded short film, in association with Resource Productions and directed by Katia Shannon. Us & In Between recently had its World Premiere at the HollyShorts Film Festival 2023.
I created the film Title Treatment design with feedback from Katia Shannon and additional graphics by Motion Designer Steve Hill. I also created a fully credited one-sheet Poster Design asset for online and print campaign promotional use.
Resource Productions is a community interest company that works with local talent and helps to provide individuals with creative development programs and freelance opportunities within the film industry.
Skills: Advance Image Editing · Digital Painting · Print Design · Illustration · Graphic Design · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe Illustrator · Adobe Fresco · Adobe Lightroom · Corel Painter
June 2022
- Present
Slough, United Kingdom
Odeon Cinemas
Remote Work Experience Role - Marketing Department.
A Remote Work Experience Role with Odeon Cinemas Marketing Department:
• I created a mock-up design to celebrate ODEON Cinemas' release of The Batman. With guidance from the marketing team, alterations to my mock-up were rolled out to promote the campaign online across Odeon’s CRM newsletters, social media channels, and digital screens.
• I created a print design for a local magazine to support Odeon Dudley. The marketing team used the asset to highlight new film releases for the Odeon Cinemas Spring Campaign. The design was featured in the March issue of Village Voice Community Magazines.
• I edited and rolled out food and beverage photographic image assets for the Odeon Deliveroo app UI UX design launch.
• I edited menu design copy changes by adding calorie information to the Food & Beverage menus and the Oscars Bar Menu, found in Luxe Cinemas around the country including London's Odeon Leicester Square.
Skills: Image Editing · Menu Development · Adobe InDesign · UI UX · Customer Relationship Management (CRM) · Print Design · Digital Illustration · Graphic Design · Adobe Photoshop
• I created a mock-up design to celebrate ODEON Cinemas' release of The Batman. With guidance from the marketing team, alterations to my mock-up were rolled out to promote the campaign online across Odeon’s CRM newsletters, social media channels, and digital screens.
• I created a print design for a local magazine to support Odeon Dudley. The marketing team used the asset to highlight new film releases for the Odeon Cinemas Spring Campaign. The design was featured in the March issue of Village Voice Community Magazines.
• I edited and rolled out food and beverage photographic image assets for the Odeon Deliveroo app UI UX design launch.
• I edited menu design copy changes by adding calorie information to the Food & Beverage menus and the Oscars Bar Menu, found in Luxe Cinemas around the country including London's Odeon Leicester Square.
Skills: Image Editing · Menu Development · Adobe InDesign · UI UX · Customer Relationship Management (CRM) · Print Design · Digital Illustration · Graphic Design · Adobe Photoshop
January 2022
- May 2022
United Kingdom
Metrodome Group Ltd.
Poster Designer.
After winning the State of the Art Cinema ‘design a poster’ competition in 2013, I was given the opportunity by Metrodome Distribution to design a fully credited film poster for upcoming indie musical God Help the Girl.
• Combining disciplines such as illustration, colour theory, font type and composition across Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator CS3.
• Creating a workflow and pipeline suitable for large scale print production.
• Working to standard UK cinema poster sizes.
• Understanding how the Paid Ads Statement relates to the Billing Block and production logos within the final poster design.
• Working with a film poster brief and design ideas from Metrodome Distribution and their affiliates.
• Combining disciplines such as illustration, colour theory, font type and composition across Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator CS3.
• Creating a workflow and pipeline suitable for large scale print production.
• Working to standard UK cinema poster sizes.
• Understanding how the Paid Ads Statement relates to the Billing Block and production logos within the final poster design.
• Working with a film poster brief and design ideas from Metrodome Distribution and their affiliates.
June 2014
- September 2014
United Kingdom
London Bus-Tops.
2D Animator.
Contributing 2D animation for London Bus-Tops, a collaborative public art installation project spanning 20 London boroughs to form part of London’s cultural Olympiad. 30 red and black LED screens were dotted around London, on the roofs of bus shelters creating a new exhibition space for the public Arts.
• Working to outlined technical specifications.
• Conceptualizing and creating ideas to technical specification.
• Workflow included a multimedia of software including vector drawing and animating in Macromedia Flash 8, design and illustration in Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator CS3 with compositing, animating and rendering in Adobe After Effects 7.0
• Working to outlined technical specifications.
• Conceptualizing and creating ideas to technical specification.
• Workflow included a multimedia of software including vector drawing and animating in Macromedia Flash 8, design and illustration in Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator CS3 with compositing, animating and rendering in Adobe After Effects 7.0
June 2012
- September 2012
London, United Kingdom
Bournemouth University.
Commissioned Illustrator & Graphic Designer.
I was commissioned to create promotional material for a student film from Bournemouth University (UK) called ChitChatClick. The story revolves around four modern women who communicate via mobile phone but when they finally meet face to face, all is not as it seems and things turn for the worse.
• Working to a script and networking with the film director Georgina Higgins gathering ideas and resources.
• Conceptualizing and creating original full body character designs and head profiles in traditional media using professional character building techniques.
• Film title design utilising typography, illustration and digital photography.
• Designing and illustrating visual concepts for promotional print material and poster art.
• Working to a script and networking with the film director Georgina Higgins gathering ideas and resources.
• Conceptualizing and creating original full body character designs and head profiles in traditional media using professional character building techniques.
• Film title design utilising typography, illustration and digital photography.
• Designing and illustrating visual concepts for promotional print material and poster art.
July 2011
- September 2011
United Kingdom
Commissioned Work.
Portraiture Artist.
• Digitally painted from hand using Adobe Design Suite alongside a photographic reference.
• Working with clients' requirements and meeting deadlines.
• Each design is unique and original.
• Utilising traditional and modern illustration techniques.
• Gaining clients' trust on a one-to-one basis through networking.
• Working with clients' requirements and meeting deadlines.
• Each design is unique and original.
• Utilising traditional and modern illustration techniques.
• Gaining clients' trust on a one-to-one basis through networking.
December 2008
- November 2019
United Kingdom
Freelance.
Logo Identity Designer.
•Using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for vector and bitmap print production work.
•Creating vector art for high resolution apparel print production.
•Creating original graphic design and logo work.
•Restoring and up-scaling damaged or low resolution design work.
•Creating vector art for high resolution apparel print production.
•Creating original graphic design and logo work.
•Restoring and up-scaling damaged or low resolution design work.
February 2007
- March 2008
London, United Kingdom
AD Clothing.
Apparel Graphic Designer.
(Single trial period only)
•Design and create a unique illustration with a message for the young and modern person.
•Design and create a logo to a set brief and deadline.
•Design and create a unique illustration with a message for the young and modern person.
•Design and create a logo to a set brief and deadline.
September 2007
- October 2007
London, United Kingdom
Education
Resource Productions
Online Course - Business Basics. Self-Employment in the Creative Industries.
Business Basics - Self-Employment in the Creative Industries.
I completed an intensive 3-day course in 'Business Basics - Self-Employment in the Creative Industries' with Resource Productions.
Online course Workshop Leader Dan Simmons.
Resource Productions Project Manager Terry Adlam.
I completed an intensive 3-day course in 'Business Basics - Self-Employment in the Creative Industries' with Resource Productions.
Online course Workshop Leader Dan Simmons.
Resource Productions Project Manager Terry Adlam.
2020
- 2021
Slough, United Kingdom
Resource Productions
Mentorship Program - Gary Tomkins, Senior Art Director for Vermilion at Warner Brothers Studios
A free mentorship program from Slough-based creative company Resource Productions under Gary Tomkins, Senior Art Director for Vermilion at Warner Brothers Studios in Leavesden, UK.
- Understanding all the roles within the Art Departments.
- Discussing how they work within the studio hierarchy.
- Q & A sessions.
- Sharing work and tools.
- Personal project building.
- Contacts & courses.
- Understanding all the roles within the Art Departments.
- Discussing how they work within the studio hierarchy.
- Q & A sessions.
- Sharing work and tools.
- Personal project building.
- Contacts & courses.
2020
- 2020
Slough, United Kingdom
Pearson College
Motion Graphics
Successfully completed the Motion Graphic 12 week short course with Escape Studios at Pearson College.
January 2018
- March 2018
London, United Kingdom
University Of West London/Thames Valley University
Bachelor of Arts. BA (Hons)
List of modules:
SFX.
Digital Arts.
Experimental Media.
Art Practice and Presentation.
Time Based Imaging.
Screenwriting.
Interactive Gameplay Design.
2D Animation.
Mixed Media Animation.
Experimental 3D.
Network Aesthetics.
Maverick Machines.
Storyboarding and Narrative.
Multimedia Scripting and Authoring.
Web Design Skills.
Digital Arts Processes.
Pixel Based Imaging.
Visual Studies.
3D Modelling and Animation.
Introduction to Video.
SFX.
Digital Arts.
Experimental Media.
Art Practice and Presentation.
Time Based Imaging.
Screenwriting.
Interactive Gameplay Design.
2D Animation.
Mixed Media Animation.
Experimental 3D.
Network Aesthetics.
Maverick Machines.
Storyboarding and Narrative.
Multimedia Scripting and Authoring.
Web Design Skills.
Digital Arts Processes.
Pixel Based Imaging.
Visual Studies.
3D Modelling and Animation.
Introduction to Video.
September 2004
- June 2007
London, United Kingdom
Brentside High School Arts College
VCE (Double Award) Art & Design Advanced
List of units:
2D Visual Language.
3D Visual Language.
Historical & Contemporary References.
Working to Set Briefs.
Visual Communication and Meaning.
Professional Practice and Progression.
Create and Develop Ideas.
Plan and Realise Finished Work.
Personal & Portfolio Development.
Fine Art Materials, Techniques and Technology.
Multimedia Materials, Techniques and Technology.
Moving Images.
Life Drawing Classes.
2D Visual Language.
3D Visual Language.
Historical & Contemporary References.
Working to Set Briefs.
Visual Communication and Meaning.
Professional Practice and Progression.
Create and Develop Ideas.
Plan and Realise Finished Work.
Personal & Portfolio Development.
Fine Art Materials, Techniques and Technology.
Multimedia Materials, Techniques and Technology.
Moving Images.
Life Drawing Classes.
September 2001
- June 2003
London, United Kingdom
Brentside High School Arts College
GCE Advanced Level Photography
Example of units:
Large Format Self Portraiture.
Medium Format Photography.
Dark Room Photography.
Large Format Self Portraiture.
Medium Format Photography.
Dark Room Photography.
September 2001
- June 2003
London, United Kingdom
Brentside High School Arts College
Intermediate GNVQ Art & Design
List of units:
Materials, Techniques & Technology.
Exploring Others' Work.
2D & 3D Visual Language.
Working To a Specialist Brief.
Art Techniques.
3D Design Techniques.
Materials, Techniques & Technology.
Exploring Others' Work.
2D & 3D Visual Language.
Working To a Specialist Brief.
Art Techniques.
3D Design Techniques.
September 2000
- June 2001
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English (Native),
Awards
State Of The Art Cinema
1st place in the State of the Art Cinema 'design a movie poster' competition for indie comedy Frances Ha, starring Greta Gerwig and directed by Noah Baumbach.
2013
Odeon Short Film Competition
Winner of 1st place in the Odeon short film competition poster category for Odeon Uxbridge entry ‘Dummy’.
2009
Babelgum Online Film Festival
Short film ScreenPLAY short listed into the Babelgum online film festival’s Animation award.
2008
UK Skills Challenge Art Advanced Competition
Art Advanced BRONZE award for my digital painting titled C.G.eye.
2007
Nationwide Mercury Prize Art Competition
Winning finalist award for my digital illustration titled In Search of…
2006
Skills
2D Animation,
2D Compositing,
Action Script,
Adobe After Effects,
Adobe Design Suite,
Adobe Premiere,
Colour Keying,
Colour Profiles,
Corel Painter ,
CRM,
Data Compression,
Digital Art,
Digital Painting,
File Types,
Flash MX,
Graphic Design,
Illustration,
Illustrator,
Indesign,
Lineart,
Motion Graphics ,
Observational Studies,
Photo Editing,
Photography,
Photoshop,
Portrait Painting,
Portraiture,
Poster Design,
Print Design,
Printmaking,
Traditional Art,
Video Art,
Video Codecs,
Publications
2010 - Virtuoso.
A hardback book showcasing the work of talented artists from around the world.
A hardback book showcasing the work of talented artists from around the world.
Exhibitions
2014 - State of the Art Cinema, The Strand Gallery, London.
A free exhibition of contemporary film poster design and photography presented by the Film Distributors' Association indicates the spectacle and diversity of films from around the world.
2014 - State of the Art Cinema, A&D Gallery, London.
A free exhibition of contemporary film poster design and photography presented by the Film Distributors' Association indicates the spectacle and diversity of films from around the world.
2012 - London Bus-Tops, London boroughs.
A collaborative public art installation project across 20 London boroughs creating a new exhibition space for the public and public arts as part of London's 2012 cultural Olympiad.
2007 - TVU Contemporaries show, Trocadero, London.
Showcasing recent TVU graduates' cutting-edge art and design practice.
2007 - UK Skills Challenge, Light House Gallery, Wolverhampton.
Promoting excellence through skills competitions for young artists.
2007 - Pixel Shake, Ada Street Gallery, Bethnal Green, London.
BA Hons Digital Arts graduate degree show.
2006 - Nationwide Mercury Art prize, The Hospital Gallery, Covent Garden, London.
The UK’s premier student art competition and exhibition.
2003 - Yesterday, today and tomorrow, The National Film Theatre, London.
Part of the Yesterday, today and tomorrow exhibition of works by young artists from Ealing schools.
2002 - Yesterday, today and tomorrow, Pitshanger Manor Arts Gallery, Ealing.
An exhibition of works by young artists from Ealing Schools.
2002 - The people of Ealing, Pitshanger Manor Arts Gallery & House, Ealing.
An energetic mixture of work that creatively reflects the people of the London Borough of Ealing.
A free exhibition of contemporary film poster design and photography presented by the Film Distributors' Association indicates the spectacle and diversity of films from around the world.
2014 - State of the Art Cinema, A&D Gallery, London.
A free exhibition of contemporary film poster design and photography presented by the Film Distributors' Association indicates the spectacle and diversity of films from around the world.
2012 - London Bus-Tops, London boroughs.
A collaborative public art installation project across 20 London boroughs creating a new exhibition space for the public and public arts as part of London's 2012 cultural Olympiad.
2007 - TVU Contemporaries show, Trocadero, London.
Showcasing recent TVU graduates' cutting-edge art and design practice.
2007 - UK Skills Challenge, Light House Gallery, Wolverhampton.
Promoting excellence through skills competitions for young artists.
2007 - Pixel Shake, Ada Street Gallery, Bethnal Green, London.
BA Hons Digital Arts graduate degree show.
2006 - Nationwide Mercury Art prize, The Hospital Gallery, Covent Garden, London.
The UK’s premier student art competition and exhibition.
2003 - Yesterday, today and tomorrow, The National Film Theatre, London.
Part of the Yesterday, today and tomorrow exhibition of works by young artists from Ealing schools.
2002 - Yesterday, today and tomorrow, Pitshanger Manor Arts Gallery, Ealing.
An exhibition of works by young artists from Ealing Schools.
2002 - The people of Ealing, Pitshanger Manor Arts Gallery & House, Ealing.
An energetic mixture of work that creatively reflects the people of the London Borough of Ealing.