Resumé

Experience

Mad About Design, London - Designer, I work as part of a small team creating temporary and permanent retail environments for luxury brands such as Dior, Elizabeth Arden, Fendi, Givenchy, Gucci, Dolce and Gabbana, Diageo and Dannone. We work various projects on a variety of scales from complete harrods takeovers to point of sale displays and tester units. We work closely with our clients and stores to ensure our designs capture the brand values and entice potential customers in. My responsibilities are to understand brands, analyse trends and predict future trends, generate concepts that represent the brand but also push their creative boundaries, 3d visualisation, creating technical drawings, store planing and artworking.

Minale Tattersfield and Partners, London - Junior Designer, working as part of the energy sector team creating road side retail environments for clients such as BP, Artoil, Astra sekerbank and Rosneft. Responsibilities include 3D visualisation, composing brand manuals, creating 3D models for virtual reality environments.

Arno GB, Bristol - Design Intern, working as part of a team to create retail environments and Point of Sale displays. Responsibilities included 3D visualisation, concept generation store planning, research, generating visual inspiration and generating presentations.

Proccess skills

User Research, Ethnographics, Brand Positioning, Branding, Design understanding, concept modeling, rapid concept generation, rapid sketching in a variety of different media including marker, pencil and pastel
Hand draft, or computer generated mechanical and perspective drawings,
computer generated visulals, rendering and sketches with Photoshop and Illustrator

Other Relevant Experience

Accent Market Research - Market researcher
Design - Assistant Graphic Designer
House of Fraser - Assistant Visual merchandiser

Education

2005 – 2009 First Class Bsc (hons) Creative Product Design, University Of West England, Bristol

2004 – 2005 Art Foundation, Swindon College, Swindon

Software

Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design,Flash, Rhino, 3D Max
Familiar with Meta Creations Poser, Adobe Dreamweaver
Experienced in both Windows and OS platforms

Exhibitions

What We Would Buy If You Buy Our T-shirts - 2008 - Whit Ace Outfit
Damn Fine Art But Not Fine Fine Art -2008 - Top 5 Cider Plates
Bristol Design Festival - 2008 - WE're NOt DEad YEt
The Eco Show - 2008 - WE're NOt DEad YEt

Interests

Vintage furniture, clothing & ornaments,
The music of Bruce Springsteen,
Humorous diy marketing campaigns

Projects by Claire Richards