Summary

I have around 10 years experience designing for a wide variety of projects across web, print, digital TV and mobile. Employed within both agency and in-house design teams in London, and also on a freelance basis, my work has included illustration, HTML coding, Flash & Actionscript 3, brand identity, information architecture, usability testing and project management.

I currently work for Orange UK while studying part time for an MSc in Interactive Technology Design.

You can see some examples of my work at: http://boothwoman.blogspot.com/

Employment

Orange, London, April 2006 - present
Designer
All aspects of web, print and 3D design and CD creation. Projects include:
Desktop icons for Orange Livebox
Downloadable animated desktop characters
Packaging and user guides for Orange products such as Livebox and Digital TV

Wanadoo UK, London, April 2004 - April 2006
Designer
Design, illustration, animation and 3D work. Projects include:
Print design for Re:connect and Fishbowl events
Flash animation to describe Wanadoo Wireless & Talk

Freeserve.com, London, March 2001 - April 2004
Designer
Design, illustration and animation for web, print and iTV. Projects include:
Redesign of parenting site - Babyworld
Christmas channel design and illustrations
Interactive Flash e-postcard
Illustrated pop-ups
Page designs for web and iTV versions of Freeserve's women's portal, icircle.com

Traffic Interactive, (now Proximity London), January 2000 - January 2001
Web Designer
Design, illustration, HTML and WAP coding. Clients included:
BT Cellnet - Drafted and designed online brand guidelines & promotional WAP site
Guinness - Mini site aimed at pub landlords
Financial Times - Page designs and flash banners
Genie - Animated pop-ups
Emirates - Page designs and banners
Telegraph - Banners for financial section
Ministry of Sound - WAP site to advertise details of annual tour
Traffic - Designed and coded a WAP intranet

Pixel Creative, London, December 1999
Work experience placement - assisted with design and ideas for a promotional CD

Freelance

Yoga Magazine, 2004
Horoscope illustrations

Greenroom Arts, London, February 2001
The Hole (movie site) - Illustrated icons

The Guardian, March 1997
Article 'How to Demolish Teenagers' - Illustration

Education

University of Brighton, 1994 - 7
BA Honours Illustration (2:1)

Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, 1993 - 4
National Diploma in Art and Design - Foundation course

Other courses

Transmedia, London
Various courses, 2001 - 6
Adobe Creative Suite, AfterEffects, Acrobat, Advanced Photoshop 7.0, Discreet 3D Studio Max 4.0, QuarkXPress 4.1, Macromedia Flash 5.0

City and Islington College, London, April - May 1999
Introduction to Macromedia Director

City University, London, January - April 1999
Introduction to programming in C

University of Sussex, Brighton, October 1997 - April 1998
'Life-links' - Multi-media course including web design

Skills

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Imageready, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Coldfusion, QuarkXpress, 3DS Max, AfterEffects

HTML, CSS, WML

Qualified First Aider (St John's Ambulance)

Full clean driving license

Contact

E-mail: boothwoman@live.com