EXPERIENCE

• AFROZAAR, CAPE TOWN | JUNE 2013-PRESENT

• I currently work as lead digital and print designer at a tech consulting company called Afrozaar. Afrozaar focuses on helping traditional publishers transition into the digital world through the use of their signature software product: Baobab Suite. We create customisable apps for publishing companies, and work in content feed distribution. I am responsible for the app, website and marketing design.

• GETAWAY MAGAZINE, RAMSAY MEDIA | 2010-2012

• I worked as a designer for Getaway magazine (a local South African travel mag) for almost two years. I started off dealing predominantly with the advertising/classified section of the magazine (one of the big sources of revenue for the mag), designing new adverts for clients and managing the changes/ammendments for others. As part of the art studio, my portfolio extended to designing main features for the magazine as well as other marketing material for the brand.

• SCALECONF CONFERENCE, CAPE TOWN, NOVEMBER 2012 - PRESENT

• ScaleConf is a tech conference held in Cape Town annually. I am the designer and creative consultant, working on all logo and branding designs, as well as designing and updating their website. I provide advice to the team when it comes to any creative or design related enquiries or decisions.

• FREELANCE CONTRACT AT NB DESIGN | FEB 2010

• I worked at NB design on a one month contract designing a range of materials from packaging and marketing for Vital Health Foods, to logos, brochures and catalogues for other clients.

• STRING COMMUNICATION | 2009-2010

• As a designer for String, I worked in a small design team who were responsible for the design and layout of two government quarterly magazines. I was also responsible for designing reports, marketing material, brochures for the company. One of my biggest tasks at String was coming up with the conceptual design of a 150 page report and taking this design through from concept to production.

• LATITUDE IDEA FACTORY | 2008

• Working as a junior graphic designer in London, I was involved in conceptualising and designing a range of marketing materials ranging from brochures, posters, corporate stationary to websites. I was also responsible for conducting research that would be helpful to fellow colleagues.

EDUCATION

• ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY | SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2012: WEB DESIGN COURSES

• I studied a semester of part-time personal enrichment courses on Web Design and User Experience Design at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California. These courses taught me html and css, web design priciples as well as Adobe Fireworks.

• RHODES UNIVERSITY | 2004-2007: BACHELOR OF JOURNALISM WITH DISTINCTION

• Part of my four year journalism degree involved specialising in one of the aspects of media. The specialisation I chose was Communication Design, where I learnt and developed design skills over 2 of the 4 years. I also took part in a 1 month intensive course of New Media where I learnt basic html and css and dreamweaver.