Bex White

Current

Freelance graphic designer & illustrator at Bubblegumkitten.com (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

Designer at Pancentric
Graphic designer at e-Dialog
Senior Designer at CheetahMail an Experian Company

Marketing Co-ordinator & Designer at The Skills Market

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Education

Kingston University

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Industry

Graphic Design

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Bex White’s Summary

Graphic Designer with over 5 years experience currently working freelance both onsite and remotely for clients. Available for fulltiem contracts or remote projects big or small. My experience is predominantly in the digital arena focusing on websites, email design, banners and other digital media but I also have experience in branding, print design and illustration. Clients include Tesco, British Airways, Motorola, AXA, Cadbury, Petplan, Barclays and other top brands as well as experience dealing with smaller clients and family businesses. Experience creating projects for both B2B and B2C use.

As well as my design skills I greatly enjoy speaking at seminars and conferences, my experience here has been mainly around email design and best practice; preparing, presenting and holding post talk Q&A sessions. I also have experience preparing and holding training on design and coding to groups of both colleagues and clients as well as writing best practice and procedural guideline documentation.

Bex White’s Specialties:

Design: Web design. Email design and email complaint html. Layout design for print. Illustration. Icon design. Logo design. Basic Flash animation.

Software: Office, Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Indesign, Flash (Without advanced AS).

Personal: Teamplayer, Pro-active, Confident speaker, Imaginative. Knowledge of email industry. Experience training and presenting to clients and staff. Team leadership and project management.

Bex White’s Experience

Freelance graphic designer & illustrator
Bubblegumkitten.com (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Design industry)

April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)

Experienced creative individual able to brainstorm and develop ideas for clients from initial hand drawn scamp to final polished artwork.

Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite: Expertise in Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Fireworks, Dreamweaver with xHTML/CSS.

Client facing skills including pitching projects to clients and presenting at seminars.

Also available as a consultant regarding online marketing and design.
Designer

Pancentric

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 4 months)

Graphic and web designer providing clients with designs from initial brainstorms and concepts to finished creative. Projects range from online marketing campaigns and websites to print materials and creating client brand guidelines. Also responsible for supporting the management function by helping manage the studio workflow and procedures as well as writing best practice guidelines and liaising with clients at sales and account meetings.

Pancentric is a London based design agency offering online marketing solutions to B2B and B2C clients.
Clients include: AXA, MSD Univadis, Chubb, Kerry Foods, Gillette, Allianz and HSBC.
www.pancentric.com
Graphic designer

e-Dialog

(Public Company; Marketing and Advertising industry)

March 2007 — January 2008 (11 months)

Graphic and web designer providing clients with design work from initial concepts to finished creative. Writing and presenting internal and external company presentations, training junior staff and contributing to company training and procedural initiatives.

E-Dialog is a leading US and UK online marketing company which offers B2C clients extensive and leading email campaign and web design services and solutions.
Clients include: Tesco group, RBS group, Boots, British Airways, Dell, HP and The Telegraph.
www.e-dialog.com
Senior Designer

CheetahMail an Experian Company

(Public Company; EXPN.L; Marketing and Advertising industry)

April 2005 — March 2007 (2 years )

Graphic designer providing clients with email campaigns and websites from initial concept to finished creative. Also responsible for internal print, presentation and web based marketing materials. Providing consultancy to guide and advise clients as well as working with the sales teams to create and present visual concepts and presentations for prospective clients. Also responsible for the training of junior staff and new staff members.

CheetahMail offers clients extensive and leading email and web design services and solutions.
Clients include: Motorola, HMV, American Express, Barclays, KLM, Egg and Mothercare.
www.cheetahmail.co.uk
Marketing Co-ordinator & Designer

The Skills Market

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2004 — March 2005 (9 months)

Responsible for sales materials including PowerPoint presentations, website updates and e-newsletters as well as mocking up designs for their software interface. Also dealt with all aspects of arranging seminars with potential clients from ideas, presentation materials and liaising and presenting to attendees.

The Skills Market provides IT solutions and services for recruitment agencies.
Clients include: Hays, Alexandermann, IDPP, Huntress, Glotel and Modis.
www.theskillsmarket.com

Bex White’s Education

Kingston University

BA , 2001 — 2004

Additional Information

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Bex White’s Interests:

Graphic Design, Illustration, New Media, Web Design, Email Marketing, Concept design, Ideas generation, Scamp drawing, Pitch work, Creative thinking, Presenting on Design at Conferences/Seminars & to clients.