Claire Taylor-Lee

Claire graduated from UWE with a 1st class BA(Hons) degree in graphic design. During her time there, Claire’s portfolio built upon her passion for typography; both in print and moving image. Her strong typographic work and formidable attention to detail secured her a 3 month internship with Hello Charlie in their Bristol office through the UWE work placement scheme.

Claire became a full time designer with Hello Charlie after her internship in 2011, working alongside the team at a junior level on varied, high end projects ranging from broadcast to award shows and band screens. Being hands-on with live projects from the outset and assisting senior creatives and directors, she soon became proficient with broadcast projects in particular, and was quickly and confidently producing, designing and delivering televised work of a large scale within a team, and smaller more bespoke projects, personally.

Claire’s skill set grew to a high level as the projects demanded, from storyboards and concepts, project managing, client liaison and presentation to working on and delivering a project in full. Claire has contributed significantly to Hello Charlie’s continually growing reputation. In the last three years, Claire has led and directed numerous creative projects, has been nominated for an Emmy, and also a Royal Television Society award for her design work.

Claire has been working with Hello Charlie as a full time creative for 8 years.

Moscow Trip

In March 2019 we had the pleasure to visit Moscow and a series of design studios, schools, workshops, museums and much more.
The studio visits have turned out to be great learning opportunities and valuable experiences for building international friendship.

Some of the studios visited:
http://a-2-o.ru/
http://groza.design/
https://eshgruppa.com/works/
https://shuka.design/work
https://whiterussian.studio/
https://britishdesign.ru/en/
https://strelka.com/en

In this mini-site we are collecting a series of images and statements from this study trip.

https://www.typenowhere.com/moscow/

Billy Lee Kerr

After Uni I landed myself a job at Cameron Balloons where I was for 2 years designing hot air balloons, I even designed my own hot air balloon using 3D software and photoshop which got taken into production and was one of the main highlights at the Balloon Fiesta that year.

 

I handed in my notice and took off to Australia to travel with my girlfriend, however after a month of being there I landed myself a Graphic Design job at Levi’s. Here I was the only Graphic Designer in Australia and New Zealand, so I was doing pretty much everything and my own boss, was a scary situation to be in at first and a lot of responsibility, but great experience nevertheless.

 

I’ve now just started a new job working as a graphic designer for a company called MYOB, (Mind Your Own Business) an Australian multinational corporation that provides tax, accounting and other business services software to small and medium businesses, it’s a pretty young atmosphere and I guess I’ll be staying in Australia for the foreseeable future if everything plans out well!

Jake Goodall

Hi all, I’m a Graphic Designer / honorary Northerner based up in Sheffield.

Since I graduated in 2015 I’ve been based at Field, a Graphic Design practice where we’ve grown from a small studio of 4 to almost a full football team, doing work across exhibitions, print, web and motion. I’ve even managed to rope in fellow UWE Grad Erik, and we now work together every day.

At Field we do a lot of work with a variety of clients and celebrate the heritage of the local, working within Arts, Education and Sport amongst others. Recently I’ve been working on a lot of animated 2D and 3D content and dabbling in Augmented Reality, but over the past few years I’ve done exhibition branding, brochures, websites and Christmas cards. Now a lot of my practice revolved around animation and I’m allowed a lot of freedom to pursue new processes – something I think is important for any design practice to allow people.

Outside of Field, I entered, got selected and exhibited a poster at Graphic Design Festival Scotland in 2016, which was about unarchiving old hidden paintings using technology (and going wrong). Last year I produced a collaborative project with Erik focusing on where contemporary artists, practitioners and students get their inspiration from, and presenting them all under the same light. These then went back to the students at both UWE and Leeds Beckett Uni to serve as a reading list resource / poster.

Nice.

If you’d ever like any advice, a beer or to ask me anything, please ping me an email at hello@jakegoodall.co.uk.

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jakegoodall.co.uk
@goodgoodgoodall

Anna Newman

I Work in Bridge Studio – the creative content team for News UK, working across our variety of titles such as The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times and a variety of platforms such as newspaper and mags, print and digital. One day it could be a high end client ad for ST Style mag – the next day it could be a Times.co.uk bespoke article for a small business. It changes every day.

I tend to work a lot on the travel pieces, because I love to travel and be inspired. In the Studio team we have journalists, designers, writers, photographers and editors, and we create all projects ourselves or we outsource it ourselves. So as a designer i’m responsible for all the design, including possible shoots, commissioning illustrators and finding other interesting avenues to use. I have recently finished working on a big campaign for eBay which was reactive advertising depending on the stories that were going to be in The Sun and The Times. We would hop up to editorial, find out any possible stories that would relate to an eBay product then in a matter of hours turn around a series of display ads to be printed in the paper that evening read for the morning. It was a really successful campaign and eBay have extended it for another 2 months.

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James Gillen

James graduated from a degree in Graphic Design in 2014. He then went to work with a digital agency called Torchbox based in Oxford with offices in Bristol and Philadelphia. James was part of the small, dynamic design team creating thoughtful, purpose driven user interfaces for a wide variety of clients in the NGO, education and charity sector. James was lead designer on projects for The British Heart Foundation, British Swimming and Shakespeare Birthplace trust.

James has developed skills in User Interface Design, User Experience Design as well as Front-End Development, concentrating on unique, engaging user encounters to help brands communicate with customers.

In 2016 James moved to Taiwan for fourteen months, he then made the move to freelance full-time. Since then he has worked with small businesses, start-ups and digital agencies including, We Are Impression, Insights Digital, Orange Crush and Fffunction to name a few.

James has won multiple awards since freelancing including CSS Winner’s site of the day, Awwwards honourable mention and a WMA for outstanding achievement, his work has also been featured on For Print Only.

He is currently based in Thornbury, Bristol and has continued to help clients create bespoke digital experiences working with small development teams and agencies. James specialises in User Interface Design including apps and websites but has a breadth of knowledge in branding and print, helping clients find their voice in the ever competitive market.

www.jamesgillen.co.uk

Holly Dennis

Hello, I’m Holly Dennis, a Graphic Designer living in London. I graduated from UWE in 2014. I currently work as a designer at Conran Design Group in Kings Cross.

Conran works across many areas such as packaging, reporting, branding and digital. I love working across a range of areas but have a passion for branding. I started off my career after graduating by interning at the Design Council. It was a great experience and I learnt a lot about design thinking and how it can be applied to so many areas such as the built environment, business and public services. I then moved on to work at an agency called Overture, who focus on branding for professional services. I learnt a huge amount about branding and developing a conceptual thought process behind every project.

Alongside my career I’ve always looked at improving my technical skills in digital and 3D rendering. I create passion projects on the side that exercise a bit more of my creativity. In uni you get open briefs, which is not always going to happen in paid work and its important to keep creating work that tests you in different ways. In 2018 I submitted some of my personal projects to Secret 7″ , it was then exhibited alongside artists such as Anish Kapoor and Jake and Dinos Champan, and auctioned off for charity.

https://secret-7.com/gallery/600

https://hollydennisdesign.com/

https://www.instagram.com/hollydennisdesign