MICHAEL THRESH

Short term contract, designing logos, brochures, and layout design.

Responsible for the design and layout of iPad Life, and iPhone Life Magazines, making print ready PDF'S, working with editors, liaising with external clients such as printers and advertising companies.

Helping customers to find the perfect solution for their consumer needs, advice on all Apple products such as iPhone, iPad, MacBooks, and iMacs, as well as third party products and accessories, problem solving.

Senior Designer, designing Logos, Flyers, Point of Sale material, Brochures, Magazines.

Layouter for magazines such as "In the Know", "Fate and Fortune", "Bella", and "That's Life"

Working in house for EdenCo (Six Months Contract) working on designs and artworking Part works (Dvd’s and Magazine layout, and pos material for titles such as Bratz, Most Haunted, Hercule Poirot, Only Fools and Horses, Charles Dickens and Rally Car.

The National Magazine Company, IPC Media, Haymarket Publishing, John Brown Publishing. IDeA (Improvement & Development Agency). Rumpole Society of Great Britain. EMI Classics. .

Employed at Redcow Creative Consultancy (Four months contract) as an Art Director, and Graphic Designer, working on various projects such as corporate logos and advertisements. Campaigns comprising of posters for the underground, ad shells, and billboards. I was involved in advertising projects such as Bafta Children’s Television Awards, the N1 shopping centre in Islington, Shopstop at Clapham Junction, and shopping at Carnaby Street.

Graphic Designer and Art Director – Responsibilities included the designing of CD / DVD packaging, DVD menus, Point of sale material, including press kits, posters, and marketing material from brief to final product. Commissioning photographers, Illustrators, and designers on Decca, Philips, and Universal Product. Art directing photo shoots of artists for CD covers, point of sale, and marketing material. Working closely with marketing and production departments. Liaising with artists and their management.

Graphic Designer and Art Director – designing CD packaging, posters, advertisements, and general point of sale, art directing photo shoots, working with photographers, briefing design agencies and illustrators. Working closely with international territories to make sure brand identity was implemented across the design product. Working closely with marketing and production departments, and outside suppliers. Liaising with artists, and their management.

Graphic Designer and Repro Operator – responsibilities included working in the reprographics department for National & Provincial Building Society. Designing, and out-putting advertisement material to digital proof and film, scanning and re-touching images, working closely with printers, and plate makers.

Graphic Designer and Repro Operator – Involved in scanning and re-touching of transparencies and photographs using Quantel Printbox. Producing analogue, and digital Cromalins. Design and page layout of catalogues and point of sale materials.

Graphic Design