Emilia Buggins

Freelance Multidisciplinary Designer & Art Director

London, United Kingdom
Talented multidisciplinary designer and art director who has worked with both global and local scale clients.

With a love for branding and clever ideas, she has skills in design, art direction, illustration and photography. She studied Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins and has been in her field since 2010, working with the likes of Musicroom, Ogilvy & Mather, Unilever, Thames & Hudson, The V&A, Dove, Hellmann’s, Comfort, The Culture Trip, M&C Saatchi, SABINA and Yellow Bird Project alongside focusing on her own personal projects.

She has had the honour of designing for very diverse sectors that have allowed her to grow quickly as a creative and build versatile skills to a high level. She can easily jump from developing design ideas for a brand identity, to art directing and photographing a shoot, designing a website or packaging for a product, illustrating a book or creating posts for social media. Her experience also means her work fits in comfortably in both highly creative and highly commercial environments.

She grew up by the sea in the South East of England and spent her summers and winters surrounded by the awe inspiring nature in Finland. She has a slight obsession with California, music, terrible American TV shows and puppies.

Work Experience

Emilia Buggins

Freelance art direction, design, illustration and photography

Clients include musicroom, Thames Hudson, The Culture Trip, Craved London, Lucy Rose, Yellow Bird Project, Hubbub Catering, Wattpad, First Story, SagittaMed

Branding, art direction, web design, photography, illustration, signage and mural design, stationary, artworking, research, concept development, retouching, production, packaging, social media, presentation design and copy writing.

Work sold in Selfridges, 2060 Pop up shop and featured in ‘International Superheroes of Drawing, Illustration and World Domination’ and on Art Wednesday, Fivethousand and Clash Music.
July 2010 - Present United Kingdom

Ogilvy & Mather

Freelance Interim Content Art Director

Freelance Interim Art Director for Unilever brightFuture brand publishing content studio that acts to build the Unilever brand as a trust mark for sustainable living.

Collaborating with a copywriter to create, curate and distribute content at scale for digital and social platforms. Whilst working closely with the brand publishing team and the senior Unilever brand team on a daily basis to ensure speedy and consistent work is produced across both global and key local markets.

Our main focus across the two months was to develop and create a social campaign to promote Unilever's involvement in The Patron's Lunch celebrating the Queen's birthday. We worked very closely with the Global and UK clients to put out the campaign across Twitter, Facebook and Unruly, punching well above it's weight we generated a total of 30.8M reach and impressions across the board generating lots of awareness for the brand.
October 2014 - March 2016 United Kingdom

Ogilvy & Mather

Designer

Clients include Dove, Dove Men, Dove Baby, Comfort, Snuggle, OMO, Brooke bond, PG Tips, Hellmann's and brand Unilever

Multi disciplinary designer & art director working with the One Unilever creative department at Ogilvy. I also have experience working consistently with the Unilever brightFuture Studios social media team to create engaging content for Unilever's brand channels and campaigns to promote their sustainability initiative.

360 campaigns, key visuals, print, point of sale and out of home design, storyboarding, TV opening and end frames, responsive web design, logo/identity development and brand guidelines, social media & content creation, retouching, art working, presentation design, image searching, illustration, concept development for campaign activations.
October 2014 - March 2016 United Kingdom

DHUB

Designer

August 2013 - October 2014 United Kingdom

Walford Wilkie

Junior Art Director

June 2011 - August 2013 London, United Kingdom

M & C Saatchi Ltd

Design Placement

June 2011 - June 2011 London, United Kingdom

Sabina

Junior Designer

June 2010 - June 2011 London, United Kingdom

Education

Central Saint Martins College Of Art And Design

BA Graphic Design

October 2008 - June 2011 London, United Kingdom

Languages

English (Native),
Finnish (Beginner),

Skills

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Art Direction, Botanical Illustration, Design, Drawing, Film Photography, Graphic Design, Illustration, Layout, Painting, Photography, Print Design, Retouching, Sketching, Watercolour, Web Design,