Karen Mc Dade

Current

• Freelance Communications Designer at Omega Red

Education

• University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika
• Univerzita Karlova v Praze
• CTI

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Recommended

4 people have recommended Karen

Connections

25 connections

Industry

Graphic Design

Websites

• Website and Full Portfolio
• Behance Portfolio
• Advanced Photoshop Gallery

Karen Mc Dade’s Summary

As an established freelance communications designer I specialise in developing and designing online and print media from conception to completion. Although I do a great deal of print work, my niche is designing aesthetically attractive, fast loading, W3C compliant CSS based websites. I have 9 years of design experience.

I offer the following services:
- Standards compliant website design, development and maintenance
- Conversion of table-based websites to CSS
- Photomanipulation and photo restoration
- Search engine optimisation
- Flash banners
- Joomla! CMS websites and template customisation
- Email signatures and newsletter templates
- Logo and brand identity design, including business cards and letterheads
- Magazine & newspaper ads
- CD/DVD cover, insert and onbody design
- Brochure design and presentation folders
- High fashion photo enhancement
- Annual reports
- Posters, postcards, flyers, digital invitations
- Graphic user interface design

Karen Mc Dade’s Specialties:

Adobe
- Photoshop CS4
- InDesign CS4
- Illustrator CS4
- Flash CS4
- Dreamweaver CS4
- Freehand MX

Corel
- Corel Painter
- CorelDraw
- Corel Knockout

3D & Animation
- ZBrush
- Swish
- Blender 3D
- Bryce

Web Technologies
- HTML
- XHTML
- XML
- CSS
- Joomla! CMS

Platforms
- Mac OS X
- PC Windows XP

Karen Mc Dade’s Experience

• Freelance Communications Designer

  Omega Red

  (Graphic Design industry)

  June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)

  Graphic design and website development.

Karen Mc Dade’s Education

• University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika

  Bachelor of Arts Degree , Majors: Communication Science and English; Minors: Psychology and Philosophy & Logic , 2007

• Univerzita Karlova v Praze

  Scholarship: Global Leadership Program , Philosophy and Communication , 2003

• CTI

  Certificate in Computer Programming Concepts 2002

Additional Information

Karen Mc Dade’s Websites:

• Website and Full Portfolio
• Behance Portfolio
• Advanced Photoshop Gallery

Karen Mc Dade’s Honors:

Received full scholarship to attend Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic - studied international leadership, philosophy and communications.

Six South African Website Awards.

Ultraweb award (Level 3: Given to websites that score between 95% - 99%; 20 out of 16,242 applicants have won this award)

DesignFirms 2008-09 Website Award.

Advanced Photoshop pic of the week design award and published in Issue 47.

MyDesignAward for Omega Red webiste.

Colourfest winner 2005.

Website recognition and exposure on the following sites: Web Design is Art; NewWebPick; CSS Creme; Most Inspired; Daily Slurp; Gouw; Arte Dinamico, DesignFlavr, Reality Dreamship...

Karen Mc Dade’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch