Work Experiences
2020—Present | Rice Creative, Ho Chi Minh city
Brand Identity Design, Graphic Design
- Work on design briefs, offer input for creative meetings, produce attractive & effective design solutions.
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Come up with design strategies and advices to help grow brands.
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Deliver concepts with solid design thinking, quickly and intuitively, thrive under pressure & tight deadlines.
- Design logo, brand assets, brand guidelines, packaging, uniform, and so on.
- Design assets for digital channels, social media posts, youtube banners, templates, website design.
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Ensure final designs are visually appealing and on-brand for clients.
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Produce presentation decks and maintain brand consistency throughout all applications.
2019—2020 | Optimico, London
UI Design, Graphic & Marketing design
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Worked directly with the co-founders and creative director to provide product design, marketing design, and research support on a wide range of projects across the product portfolio.
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Identified user types, scenarios, journeys and developed strategic UI/UX vision.
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Generated wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, and other required documentation.
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Designed and maintained Optimico’s various UI pattern libraries across company’s international products.
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Conducted internal QA tests to ensure deliveries meet initial UI/UX design specifications.
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Designed marketing campaign, digital assets for website, social media site, email newsletter, and so on.
2018—2019 | Charlie Smith Design, London
Graphic Design, Illustration
- Worked closely with the Creative Director and other Designers to design and assist the design team in developing graphics concepts, websites, illustrations for large format and display visuals in a range of media.
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Designed and developed concepts, graphics and editorial layouts, event media packages, press invitations.
- Designed social media assets, including Facebook, Instagram promotions, Youtube, Eventbrite banners, etc.
2018 - 2020 | 502 Bad Gateway Magazine, London
Graphic Design & Art Direction
- Developed a brand identity for Indigo Magazine, which includes a series of sub-projects that require branding & digital design.
- Collaborated with a team of writers and artists to come up with strategic approaches, and overall visual identity for the magazine.
2017 | Nexus Studio, London
Graphic Design
- Worked with the Nexus studio director, Johnny Kelly and Illustration studio, Nous Vous to create and design character assets for Facebook Project: Good Adds Up.
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Designed and developed concepts, graphic layouts for typography appeared in the animated film.
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Responsible for creating artworks and designs for the motion team.
2017 | Black Dog Publishing, London
Graphic Design Intern
- Worked with Project Manager and Art Director to produce high-quality visual design and content for book and magazine.
- Designed the company website.
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Assisted and managed book design projects from start to finish.
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Book cover design for William Daniels, Jeff Elrod, ‘Wreckers of Civilisation’ by Simon Ford
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Helped deliver concepts under the guidance of the Art Director, quickly and intuitively, thriving under pressure and tight deadlines.
Education
2018—2019 | Kingston University, (MA) Graphic and Communication Design, London.
2015—2018 | University of Westminster, (BA) Graphic and Communication Design, London. (GPA: 4.00)
Selected Modules:
- Design process, design thinking.
- Visual grammar, literacy and intelligence.
- Typography, type as image.
- Designing research.
- Visual storytelling, narrative and sequence.
Softwares & Skills
- Adobe Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, After Effect, Adobe XD, etc.
- Microsoft Office Suite: Microsoft Office, Powerpoint, etc.
- Figma, Keynote.
- Solid knowledge in design thinking, color theory, design system & strategy.
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Print and digital design knowledge.
- Deadline driven, team player, problem-solving skills.
Selected Exhibitions and Features
2020| BOOOOOOOM.
2019 | Girl Club Asia.
2019 | Different Gallery, Graphic Design Show. London.
2018 | D&AD New Blood Festival. London.
2018 | Ambika P3 Degree show. London.
2018 | The Creative Corner and Baseline Magazine.
2017 | International Society of Typographic Designers. Merit award. London.
2016, 2017 | Excellence Student Award of Art and Media department, University of Westminster.
Contact me at
Email: xuanphannk@gmai.com
Instagram: @xu____an