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Welcome to my design portfolio
What you should know about me first as a designer, is that at my core I am an artistic, creative person — not only do I enjoy making my own art but I am a very capable graphic and product designer.

​I have always 
enjoyed the process of building and maintaining strong working relationships with clients and employers in order to produce creative, functional design solutions. As a result I have enjoyed working with my employers and most of my freelance clients for lengthy periods of time.

Creating great design can be challenging and hugely rewarding — from receiving a brief, creating concepts, designs, gaining approvals, making further changes then the final stages of proofing and file creation. I'm comfortable following those processes either on my own or within a team environment.

I always bring my creative 'thinking cap' to the table but recognise that the best solutions are not always entirely my own but can be the result of team or client collaboration — it helps that I have well developed listening and communication skills, get along with people well and maintain quality professional work standards at all times.


I have over a decade of design experience & love to produce creative, ​functional solutions for print and product.

KEY SKILLS

  • Graphic design
  • ​Product design
  • Branding
  • Social Media
  • Website design
  • Sales & Marketing collateral
  • ​Client & supplier liaison
  • ​Conceptualization
  • Mock-up creation
  • Presentations
  • Typography
  • Single & multi-page documents
  • Graph & icon creation
  • Hand-painted & drawn imagery
  • Photography
PRINT
Posters, adverts, reports, guides, brochures, 
advertising POS (signage, display, banners), Sales & Marketing collateral, badges, bags, clothing, vehicle vinyls, stickers, certificates, imagery - icons, graphs, hand-painted & drawn imagery

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PRODUCT
Dieline, concepts, mock-up, decorative imagery, copywriting, print file separations, printer liaison, quote management
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BRAND
​Logo design, standards guide, cross-platform management

SOCIAL MEDIA
​​E-newsletters & invitations
​Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter

​WEB
​Weebly, Squarespace website design and updating

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PRESENTATION
Print, Adobe CC Spark, Powerpoint

PHOTOGRAPHY
Product and food shots for print and web, scanning, retouching, concept mock-ups

You want to work with a designer who cares about your vision & who has the skills to help make that dream a reality.

WORKPLACES

2016-2019
Banks & Co.
Central City, Auckland
Product Designer, Marketing & Social Media

2013-2016
Auckland Transport
Henderson, Auckland
Graphic Designer

2009 - 2013
Freelance design
Auckland & South Pacific clients
Graphic Designer

2008 - 2009
Auckland Regional Transport Authority
Central City, Auckland
Senior Graphic Designer

2004 - 2008
Jasons Travel Media Ltd
Newmarket, Auckland
Graphic Designer

2006 - 2008
Freelance design
Auckland & South Pacific clients
Graphic Designer

1998 - 2002
Jasons Travel Media Ltd
Newmarket, Auckland
Graphic Designer
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1996 - 1998
Graffiti Screenprint Ltd
​Glenfield, Auckland
Graphic Designer

APPLICATIONS

Adobe CC Suite: Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Spark

Microsoft: Word, Excel & Powerpoint

Mailchimp

​Flume for Instagram
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Mac & PC proficient

LEARNING

1991 - 1995
​Bachelor of Fine Art
Elam School of Fine Art
Central City, Auckland
Painting, photography, art history & art critique papers

2007
Dreamweaver MX: stage 1
Glenfield College
​Glenfield, Auckland
References available on request

ARWEN FLOWERS – KIWIARTIST