Print Resume

Teresa Cowley

Graphic Designer and Digital Artist

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
www.designsbytc.com
Design is my passion and I'm always thinking creatively and ready for a challenge. I also love working collaboratively to better meet people's needs.

Work Experience

Quadra Village Community Centre

Design and layout of Hillside-Quadra Community News

The Hillside-Quadra Community News is a small community newspaper which is published quarterly through Quadra Village Community Centre. I was there right from the start of the paper in it's current format and designed it from scratch. Here's a link to our online print edition archives: http://www.slideshare.net/HillsideQuadraCommunityNews?utm_campaign=profiletracking&utm_medium=sssite&utm_source=ssslideview
2005 - Present British Columbia, Canada

99 Designs

Participation in design contests

These are design contests I occasionally participate in for fun.
2010 - Present

City Of Victoria

Freelance Graphic Designer

Poster cylinder banners for the Hillside-Quadra neighbourhood. I was approached to do this after my adaption of the existing neighbourhood branding to the former masthead of Hillside-Quadra Community News earlier in the same year.
July 2013 - British Columbia, Canada

UK Synesthesia Association

Freelance Logo Designer

Taste the Tube map logo. This involved creating a logo that loosely resembles the London Underground logo for a unique mapping project in the UK.
April 2014 - United Kingdom

HitRECord

Participation in collaborative art and design challenges.

hitRECord is an new kind of online community that works together as a production company to produce anything from books and other printed material to short films.
February 2016 - Present

Self Built And Maintained Website

Design and maintenance of my own website.

I used the website builder by Jimdo.com. It started with a template from which I removed and replaced all the page elements to completely customize the layout for my needs. This did not require coding knowledge.
2016 - Present Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Education

High School

Incomplete but can't recall how far I got.
British Columbia, Canada

Graphic Design Mentorship

I started out in about 2001 designing posters for my local community centre with the mentorship of a former staff member who had a background in graphic design as a way of learning what goes into good design.
2001 - 2005 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Self Taught In Photoshop

I got my first copy of Photoshop in February 2011 and have been loving it since day one. I know it well but like many things in life, you never really stop learning as a designer or artist.
February 2011 - Present

Languages

English (Native),

Awards

Muse Creative Awards

I received Rose Gold for a digital art piece entitled "Hawk Rising" in the 2017 Muse Creative Awards. An international competition for creative professionals.

2017

Muse Creative Awards

I received two honourable mentions for poster designs in the 2016 Muse Creative Awards. An international competition for creative professionals.

2016

Skills

Affinity Designer, Basic Video Editing , Layout, Logo Design, Photo Manipulation, Photoshop CS5, Vector Drawing,

Online Portfolio Links

Behance
The widest range of my work covering a little bit of everything from advertising to my digital art. https://www.behance.net/tcdesigner

99Designs
This one has examples that are advertising specific that differ from what you'll find on my Behance portfolio: https://99designs.ca/profiles/designsbytc

Hillside Quadra News Print Editions
Here you'll find examples of my layout skills. http://www.slideshare.net/HillsideQuadraCommunityNews

My References

Please contact me at info@designsbytc.com for my references as I'm keeping them from receiving those ever so delightful spam emails.