Sam Hamilton

Current

• Events Decoration at Swim Productions
• Freelance Designer at self employed (Self-employed)

Past

• Creative at Maharishi
• Design Assistant / content admin / promoter at Karma Download

Recommended

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Connections

30 connections

Industry

Arts and Crafts

Websites

• My Website
• myspace

Sam Hamilton’s Summary

Currently working as a freelance designer.

This includes:
Web design/development
Logo design and branding
Marketing campaigns/publicity
Character designs

An intelligent and creative person with artistic flair. Self-motivated. Works well on own initiative and as part of a team. Has the ability to keep a cool head under pressure, with strong communication skills and the experience of interacting with people at all levels. Computer literate.

Fully conversant in:
Mac OSX, Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign
Macromedia Flash (action script 2.0), Dreamweaver (xhtml)
Microsoft Windows XP/Word/Excel/Outlook/MSN
iTunes/Cubase/Navicat

Since I started living in London I have been involved in numerous artistic and creative projects within the Art, Music, Film and TV industries.

Sam Hamilton’s Experience

• Events Decoration

  Swim Productions

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

  August 2005 — Present (4 years)

  working on various events such as Notting Hill Carnival, Glastonbury and Glade Festival creating and hanging artwork and decorations

• Freelance Designer

  self employed (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Arts and Crafts industry)

  January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

  Freelance designer working on Character designs, logo and branding, web designs, greeting card and facebook applications illustrations

• Creative

  Maharishi

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Design industry)

  January 2000 — December 2007 (8 years)

  Although this was not exclusively a creative position, Maharishi has been, and continues to be, an invaluable experience, being part of a successful creative business and watching it grow from grass roots to the global brand it is today.
  For this company I have been involved in office admin, warehousing and logistics, retail, sales, accounts, press and publicity, art exhibitions, trade shows, building and maintenance as well as design.

• Design Assistant / content admin / promoter

  Karma Download

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)

  January 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 4 months)

  As design assistant I was required to create, process and upload images and animations across the main site, as well as design and manage Karma's forum and MySpace profile.
  As Content Administrator, I processed any music content that was to be made available for purchase. This involves a thorough knowledge of encoding, tagging, and general Internet usage.
  
  As promoter of Klub Karma it was my job to organise, publicise and brand this monthly event, co-ordinating with Molly Flowers, Tough Cookie, Up All Night, and all the bands/labels. This involves listings, forums, mailing lists, posters, and flyers, , This also highlights my willingness to work extra hours outside of the normal working day.
  
  I was also required to do some SEO, forum and chat room publicity and write music reviews for websites and magazines.
  
  Unfortunately Karma Download was ahead of its time and crashed before the download market really took off.
  
  For reference email: mollyflowers@googlemail.com

Additional Information

Sam Hamilton’s Websites:

• My Website
• myspace

Sam Hamilton’s Contact Settings

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