Founder, Creative director at northbird
Sydney Area, Australia
- Current
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- Founder, Creative director at northbird
- Past
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- Senior Designer at ZOO2, Pty Ltd
- Freelance Designer at Entity Solutions, Pty Ltd
- Senior Designer at Publicis Slovenia
- Graphic & Web Designer at HD d.o.o.
- Freelance Graphic & Web Designer (Self-employed)
- Web Designer at Renderspace d.o.o.
- Freelance Graphic & Web Designer (Self-employed)
- Web Designer at Repro d.o.o
- Graphic & Web Designer at Zaslon d.o.o.
- Education
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- Raffles College of Design and Commerce, Sydney
- IAM, Institute and Academy of Multimedia
- Design & Photography High School
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Sasha Kos’s Summary
A passionate Senior Graphic Designer with 8 years of commercial experience in print and interactive media. Able to generate creative ideas and concepts from scratch to finish.
Sasha Kos’s Specialties:
Brand development, design.
Sasha Kos’s Experience
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Founder, Creative director
northbird
(Design industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Northbird is a results-driven creative business that strives to achieve the best possible outcome and product quality. Specialising in branding and marketing communications, it offers a diverse range of design-related services.
Northbird is managed by Sasha Kos, an experienced designer and brand developer currently based in Sydney. Born and raised in Slovenia, her work reflects the best of European design values - functionality, simplicity, attention to detail, and boldness. -
Senior Designer
ZOO2, Pty Ltd
(Design industry)
September 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Involvement in creative workshops, working with creative & art director and project management team to produce ideas for client based briefs. Visualising concepts for client presentation, developing designs and attending photo shoots. Preparing finished artwork for reproduction, helping management team meet deadlines. Activities range from design of advertising materials, branding and corporate identities, corporate literature and packaging to multimedia templates and desingning for the web.
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Freelance Designer
Entity Solutions, Pty Ltd
(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)
May 2007 — September 2007 (5 months)
Freelancing through Beetroot Consulting Recruitment Agency. Offering design support to Sydney's advertising and design agencies, including Publicis Mojo, Host, Principals, Devotion, Semcom, Mainsprint and RWK Design.
During this time I also did contract work for exceptional clients from Slovenia. -
Senior Designer
Publicis Slovenia
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 11 months)
Responsibilities: Communicating creative ideas and concepts. Design and preparation of all advertising material; below and above the line. Art direction on most assigned projects. Consulting in the area of interactive media. Client contact and presentation. HP and Garnier brand quality keeper in Slovenia.
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Graphic & Web Designer
HD d.o.o.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 2005 — May 2005 (4 months)
Responsibilities: Independently creating a full range of graphic design solutions including corporate branding, website design, publications, advertisements and event marketing.
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Freelance Graphic & Web Designer
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)
April 2004 — February 2005 (11 months)
Working with many creative agencies as well as small private businesses in Slovenia, providing quality and professional design services in the area of web and graphic design. As a sub-contractor, I've worked on both; individual and team projects.
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Web Designer
Renderspace d.o.o.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2003 — April 2004 (1 year 1 month)
Responsibilities: Designing Webpages, understanding html and scripts to make the page interactive. Working in different teams of flash and web programmers on multiple projects at a time. Using Usability knowledge to create the structure of a Website.
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Freelance Graphic & Web Designer
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)
June 2002 — March 2003 (10 months)
Working with many creative agencies as well as small private businesses in Slovenia, providing quality and professional design services in the area of web and graphic design. As a sub-contractor, I've worked on both; individual and team projects.
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Web Designer
Repro d.o.o
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 2002 — June 2002 (4 months)
Responsibilities: Designing Webpages, understanding html and independently creating a website.
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Graphic & Web Designer
Zaslon d.o.o.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2000 — March 2002 (1 year 6 months)
Responsibilities: Independently creating a full range of graphic design solutions including corporate branding, website and interface design.
Sasha Kos’s Education
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Raffles College of Design and Commerce, Sydney
Master of Design , Digital Media , 2008 — 2009
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IAM, Institute and Academy of Multimedia
Engineer of Multimedia , Multimedia , 2002 — 2006
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Design & Photography High School
Graphic Designer , Graphic Design , 1997 — 2000
Additional Information
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Sasha Kos’s Interests:
Music, Photography, Reading, Films, Dancing, and Travel.
Sasha Kos’s Groups:
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Apple Professionals
Sasha Kos’s Honors:
Representing Slovenia in the Young Creatives category at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival in June 2006 including the attendance in a Worldwide Young creatives Cyber Competition. Certificate of Honor Received.
Winning the 2006 Young Creative award at the Slovenian Advertising Festival (SOF) in March 2006. The award was based on a Print Ad competition.
Achieving a finalist position at the 2005 Magdalena International Creative Awards for Lara Kei website which was entirely my own individual project.
Designing an online store (Igabiba.com, 2005) which became one of the most successful online stores in Slovenia and was awarded best commercial website and best online store by user votes.
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