Overview
Graphic Designer with 5 + years of experience in the advertising and print and web industry.
Currently a freelance artist, worked at major advertising agencies in Bulgaria. Expertise: Print Design (Press, Collateral, Catalogs, Outdoor, POSM and Packaging), Brand Identity (Logo, Stationery), Webdesign (Websites, Banners, Branding, Newsletters,User Interface), Creative concepts and execution of image and promotional visuals (for ad campaigns), Storyboards for Interactive Media, Photomanipulation, DTP, Drawing.
Software skills: Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign / Mac OS X / Windows
Employment
TBWA\Sofia
Graphic Designer
2010 – 2012
Participating in the creative process for delivering ideas on advertising campaigns and visualizatios. Designing visuals and various print materials, storyboards for interactive media and TVCs, website branding and occasional micropage webdesign. Concentrating on print deliverables (POSM, packaging, etc.) and gaining practical knowledge of DTP. Clients include: Beiersdorf (Nivea, Eucerin), MARS (Pedigree, Whiskas, Snickers, Bounty, Twix,Mars), Henkel (Perwoll, Clin), Nissan, Adidas, Michelin.
Euro RSCG Sofia
Graphic Designer
2008 – 2009
Was a part of the Creative Team, generated ideas for advertising campaigns and events. Took part in the creative process and all of its stages from brainstorming to delivering completed visual materials for a campaign. Designed various print matrials and visuals, offering ideas and storyboards for interactive media. Clients included: Microsoft, Sony, Cisco, Porche Bulgaria (Volkswagen)t, Billa, InBev (Kamenitza), Societe Generale Expressbank.
Zebra LTD Plovdiv
Graphic Designer
1/2008 – 4/2008
Designed print layout and collateral for privately owned companies and clients such as Villa Luybimets, famous for their Bulgarian Wine.
Getting closely acquainted with digital print and preparing print materials for it.
W&Co. Media Services, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Media Operator
6/2007 – 12/2007
Photomanipulating and color-correcting pictures for catalogs and magazines. Compiling print layouts in QuarkXPress and photo-montaging.
Gaining vast knowledge of and learning re_nements of Photoshop. Observing high-quality standards and e_ectiveness.
Clients included: Baur, Klingel, Top Hair, FHM, Heine.
Education
National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
10/2003 – 5/2007
Bachelor’s Degree in Poster and Visual Communication
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
01/2005 – 04/2005
Socrates/Erasmus Exchange Student in Fine Arts
English Language School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
9/1998 – 5/2003
Diploma for Secondary Education with an English Language Profile
