Nick de Beer

Senior Brand Designer

Port Elizabeth, South Africa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-de-beer-20878726/

Work Experience

Boomtown

Senior Brand Designer

January 2022 - Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Execuspecs

Creative Brand Lead

Duties & responsibilities:
Managing the creative look of the brand, through advertising, campaigns, in-store and online.
May 2019 - South Africa

Boomtown

Senior Designer

Duties & responsibilities:
General graphic design, campaigns, concepting etc.

November 2014 - May 2019 South Africa

Pearson Institute For Higher Education

Graphic Design Lecturer

Duties & responsibilities:
Lectured Pre-Degree and First Year students in Drawing, Applied Colour, Design Fundamentals etc as well as designed all in-house design and marketing material for Eastern Cape campus’s. Social Media Co coordinator, including our campus Facebook page. Production for Print, Client Liaison, Company Budgets and planning. Member on the campus financial board; duties include handling certain financial accounts. Involved in the student research center; duties include helping students with research and assignments.
February 2011 - June 2014 Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Kelston Motor Group

Graphic Designer

Duties & responsibilities:
Designed all marketing material for the group, 10 dealers all over the country and a staff of 350 people. Dealing with VW and AUDI, designs/branding on all media had to be brand approved by head office VW and Audi. Worked on all magazine ads, newspaper ads, emailers, flyers, web look and feel, signage, product launches, promotions and internal marketing needs.
January 2010 - January 2011 Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Black Current Visual Media Solutions

Senior Graphic Designer

Duties & responsibilities:
Web Interface design and general design. Conceptualization of above-and-below-the line advertising, concept and development of Corporate Identities, Layout Design, Media Strategies, Interior Design, Packaging, Social Media campaigns.
January 2009 - January 2010 Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Madbay

Graphic Designer

Duties & responsibilities:
General design, Development of Corporate Identity, Web Interface design, worked on the COMSEC clients (National Youth Fund). Completed branding for 30 COMSEC clients per month. Magazine layout and publication, designed the People Talk Magazine from cover to cover over five issues including all the articles and ads that appeared in this publication.
March 2004 - December 2008 South Africa

Ad Empire

Junior Designer

General design
January 2000 - December 2000 Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Education

NMU / PE Technikon

Bachelor in Graphic Design

January 1998 - November 2001 Port Elizabeth, South Africa