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Dear sir / madam, I would like to take this opportunity to submit my application for your consideration in response to your online ad. I am familiar with the local trends and styles. I have experience in print production process and outdoor media production. I know my way around a Finished Artwork and have knowledge about the various printing processes and digital printing. I take ownership for my artwork from concept to FA. I am fluent in Adobe CS software InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop. I am proactive and ʻhands-onʼ in my approach to each project and versatile in my creative concepts to each challenge. I have confidence in my ability and skills to contribute positively to a creative team and bring stability and dependability to the table. I am looking for new challenges to further develop my career and contribute to the graphic arts and refine my creative flair as a creative person. I would like the opportunity to hone my art direction skills as well as add on new skills. I am looking for avenues to express my creativity. I have an on line portfolio on the Behance website. http://www.behance.net/byrnebrian I have worked on various projects above & below the line. From Annual Reports, Corporate/Magazine Ads, TVCs, Billboards & Websites & Web Banners and managed a small creative group in previous organisations. All artwork in my portfolio is conceptualized by myself based on the client's briefs and with revisions by the clients. Please contact me should you require further information about myself. Salary expectations is 3k. Available immediately. Attached Resume and previous artwork samples for your consideration. Please contact me via email or sms during office hours. Thank you. Yours sincerely, Brian Anthony Byrne Email: [email protected] H/p: 93887180 Block 3 Delta Avenue, #12-34 Singapore 160003

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Brian Anthony Byrne PERSONAL DATA Address : Blk 3. #12-34 Delta Avenue Status : Singapore Permanent Resident Citizenship : Malaysian N.R.I.C. No : S2679747J (Singapore Blue IC) Sex : Male Race : Eurasian Religion : Catholic Marital Status : Single Interests : Working out at the gym: BodyCombat/BodyPump/RPM, Collecting

comics, Hobbycraft Modelling, Sketching, Reading and Watching Movies. Email : [email protected] Tel (H/p) : 93887180 Online Portfolio : www.behance.net/byrnebrian MAJOR ACCOUNTS HANDLED POSB/DBS Bank Adaptation of Bank collaterals, Printed material & Web Banners. IHG Hotels Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Holiday Inn Resorts, Crowne Plaza,

InterContinental Hotels, Indigo Hotel, Hualuxe Hotels Corporate Marketing Collateral & Exhibition Material. Corporate Brand Identity Kits.

Moevenpick Hotels Print & Magazine Advertisements, Corporate Marketing Collateral & Exhibition Material

STARWOOD HOTELS Sheraton, Westin, Le Meridien, Aloft, FourPoints, St Regis, Luxury Collection hotels.

Print, Travel Magazine Advertisements, International Herald Tribune Supplement Covers & Advertisements, Marketing Collaterals.

Singapore National Print & Magazine Advertisements for Reader’s Digest and Silkwinds magazine. Eye Centre (SNEC)

Bausch & Lomb Print & Magazine Advertisements, Marketing/Exhibition Collateral, POS Collateral.

Orange Business Corporate Collateral, Direct Mailers. Solutions

UIC Print & Magazine Advertisements for FMCG Household Cleaning Products, TVC, Radio

Spots, POS material, Bus Ads.

Borneo Motors Direct Mailers for HINO Truck & Van Seminars.

Asia Pacific Breweries Tiger Beer, Anchor Beer, Baron’s StrongBrew, Heineken, Reeb Beer. Regional design work for billboards and below the line design work.

British American Tobbacco (BAT) Dunhill, Benson & Hedges, 555, Peter Stuyvesant, Lucky Strike.

Regional design work for billboards and below the line design work. Recruitment ads and newsletters for BAT Singapore.

Next Page POP Material ie: Tent Cards & Posters, Entertainment Magazine Ads & Promotional Management Pte Ltd Material. Nippon Paint (China) Nippon Paint Billboards

Regional design work for billboards in China and IndoChina. SANYO Press and Magazine Ads for certain products in Singapore.

Design work for product ads.

Bon Food Singapore Burger King, Dairy Queen, Orange Julius Design work and signages for domestic market.

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EXPERIENCE Mar 2015 – Present Freelance Art Director / Creative Designer / Illustrator Senior Graphic Designer (Freelance) Primary Responsibilities:

• Creative duties include Art Direction, conceptualising, visualising and executing artwork for Ads, Print Media & Branding.

Feb 2014 – Feb 2015 Ngai Heng Pte Ltd

Integrated One Stop Printing/Media Company

Snr Graphic Designer Primary Responsibilities: Design print collaterals, oversee FA conforms to printing specs of offset & digital print.

Sept 2013 – Jan 2014 ThinkAds Pte Ltd Advertising Agency

Senior Graphic Designer (Freelance) Primary Responsibilities:

• Creative duties include conceptualising, visualising and designing creatives for Ads, Print Media & Branding. May 2010 – June 2013 Panache Design Pte Ltd

Boutique Creative Design Consultancy. Senior Graphic Designer Primary Responsibilities:

• Creative duties include conceptualising, visualising and designing creatives for clients. Updating Corporate Brand Identity Manuals and collaterals. Aug 2006 – Jan 2010 Agape Communications Pte Ltd

Creative Communications Agency Senior Graphic Designer Primary Responsibilities:

• Creative duties include brainstorming conceptualising, visualising and designing

February – June 2006 Cre8 Singapore Pte Ltd Print Communications company specialising in Annual Report publication and Financial IPO materials.

Senior Creative Primary Responsibilities: Designer • Creative duties include visualising and designing creatives, visuals and mock ups for

Annual Reports, IPO materials, Ads, Marketing POP material. • Presentation/liaise with clients for creative brief and feedback. 2004 – January 2006 AXXA Design & Print Pte Ltd

Design and Print company with focus on below the line work as well as design consultancy for Government Statutory Boards/Organisations and Associated Bodies.

Art Director Primary Responsibilities: • Creative duties include art direction, visualising and designing creatives and visuals

for client’s approval and overseeing production from conceptualisation to final production in Offset Printing/Digital Printing.

• Presentation/liaise with clients for creative brief and feedback.Guide junior Designers. April – July 2003 Ritz Creative Communications Pte Ltd -(Defunct)

Communications agency with focus on below the line work as well as design consultancy projects and advertisement media.

Asst. Art Director Primary Responsibilities: • Creative duties include art direction, visualising and designing mock up and visuals for

client’s approval and overseeing production by vendors, color separators and printers. • Presentation/liaise and meet up with clients for creative brief and feedback. • Manage and supervise creative studio and work assignments.

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1995 – Apr 2003 Town Art Media Pte Ltd / Town Art Design (-Defunct)

Alternating between the outdoor advertising duties and below the line design jobs for Townart Design. Agency duties include recruitment and product Ads for newspapers and other print media.

Studio Manager (Desktop Publishing) Primary Responsibilities: • Creative duties include art direction, visualising and designing mock up and visuals for

client’s approval and overseeing production by vendors, color separators and printers. • Manage junior Designers. Guide and art direct projects. • Presentation/liaise with clients for feedback. • Maintain and update company homepage on the internet at www.townart.com.sg 1989 – 1994 Town Art Services (-Defunct)

Local Sole Proprietor Advertising Agency/ Design House specialising in below the line marketing.

Senior Graphic Primary Responsibilities: Designer • Creative duties include visualising and designing recruitment , notice, display, product

and supplement advertisements for major printed media in Singapore and the region. • Visualise and design Newsletters, Brochures, Flyers, Corporate Handbooks, Catalogs

and Annual Reports, P.O.S. Material and Packaging from concept to production. • Storyboard sequence for Electronic Billboard Advertisements at Johore Bahru

Causeway. • Illustrating for Corporate Employee Manuals. • Airbrushing of Lumilite Colour for special Projects. SKILLS/PROFICIENCY Computer Literacy

Software used – Adobe CS2 – CS6: Freehand, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Splash Print server, QuarkXpress, Adobe Imageready (for simple animations), Fetch 3.03 (For FTP uploading webpages to the internet), Safari, FireFox, Adobe Acrobat Professional (uploading Pdf files of creatives to email to client), SPH Adnet Electronic Transmission (E-transmit recruitment Ads to SPH. Operation of Katana film casting machine, Digital Photography for quick visual purposes and Outdoor Site proposals. StrataVideoshop & Toast Titanium for Audio/VCD burning, Cross platform software: Microsoft Powerpoint, Excel and Word.Ability to Illustrate and draw. Splash Print Server and Creo Print Server for Digital Printing with Fuji Xerox Digital Printers- Splash.

Languages Spoken and written: English and Malay INTERESTS

Interested in the new technology & software that is emerging today. Looking forward to honing my graphic skills with the software available to produce works of high standards and further developing my art direction capabilities on above the line projects.

PERSONALITY PROFILE Quiet by nature. Able to work as a team member or independently. Always open to leaning new skills and attaining knowledge. ‘Hands on’ attitude. EDUCATION 28 - 29 Sept 1995 Master Printers’ Association Workshop, Singapore

Attended “Advanced Print Buyers’ Workshop” organised by the Master Printers’ Association.

1990 - 1991 Nanyang Academy Of Fine Arts, Singapore Completed 2 year certificate course in Graphic Design. 1982 - 1984 Sain Academy of Art, Penang, Malaysia (Defunct) Graduated with Honours Diploma courses in Graphic Design and Commercial Art. 1977 - 1981 St Xavier’s Institution, Penang, Malaysia Completed Secondary Schooling. Graduated with GCE “O” Levels Extracurricular Activities: Board of School Prefects, Army Cadet Corps, Tennis Club. 1971 - 1976 St Xavier’s Branch School, Penang, Malaysia Completed Primary Schooling.

STARWOOD HOTELS GROUP

International Herald Tribune Cover Wrap Supplement Ads

Link@ Sheraton

Run Westin Westin Hotels

Le Meridien Sheraton Hotels

STARWOOD HOTELS GROUP

Travel Magazine Ads

STARWOOD Privilege Newsletter

STARWOOD HOTELS GROUP

Print Collaterals

BAUSCH & LOMB

Newspaper Ads

Surgical Product Brochure

BAUSCH & LOMB

Phanplets

Product Posters

Bausch & Lomb InSights Newsletter

SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE

Newspaper Ad

SNEC Reader’s Digest Ads

Magazine Ad

ORANGE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

Corporate Calendar

Direct Mailer

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Various Collateral For Corporate Event

VARIOUS ARTWORK

Newspaper Ad For SANYO Projectors

Christmas Brochure For Angie The Choice Cakehouse

Direct Mailers For Borneo Motors HINO Truck Division

VARIOUS ARTWORK

Tiger Beer Billboard For Asia Pacifi c Breweries In Batam Packaging For Asia Pacifi c Breweries

Corporate Folder And Product Catalog Travel Catalog Cover

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