Responsibilities:
Art direction, design, concepts, directing (photography).

Achievements:
Jumping from marketing on ‘client-side’ to creative.
Re-training – adding a Design diploma to my degree in Communications.
Exhibiting at the Royal College of Art in London.

Awards:
• Design Award – Young Creatives Network (YCN) UK
• Grampian PR Prize

Work:
• Scottish and Southern Energy – better plan
• National Australia Bank – Asset Finance
• Determined to Succeed (Government Campaign for Enterprise in Education)
• See Me (Mental Ill Health charity – young people’s campaign)

Side projects:
• Personal photography: Papercut Panic
• Exhibition design for Edinburgh’s Telford College Art and Design Show
• Screen printing course at Peacock Visual Arts
• Created imagery for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra programmes

Experience:
• UK Marketing Officer for the Robert Gordon University

Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Arts with 1st Class honours in Corporate Communication
• Higher National Diploma with Merit in Graphic and Digital Design
• Class rep at both University and College
Skills:
Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator), Photography

Background:
Born in Inverurie in 1983 and brought up in Aberdeen. After completing my degree, I worked as a Marketing Officer before moving to Edinburgh to follow a more creative path. In my lifetime I have grown to 5ft, consumed 5742 cups of tea, travelled to 15 countries, and formed a band called 67.

Interests:
Seeing the world, discovering new music, gigs, mario kart, forests, sketchbooks, apples (golden delicious and mac), dancing, ideas, and photography.

Super-power:
Being able to make people think I am small just by looking at them.

Favourite Brands:
Innocent, Lush, Sony Bravia.

Music:
Currently on my pod – Trespassers William, Red House Painters, Sigur Ros, Marlena Shaw, The Foals, Cinematic Orchestra, Beirut and Ryan Adams.

Movies:
Amelie, Se7en, The Pianist, Everything is Illuminated, Princess Mononoke, Old Boy, and The Shawshank Redemption.

TV:
24, CSI, Lost and the news

Books:
Postsecret by Frank Warren (my secret has yet to be published)

Quotes:
“A mountain of sugar is too much for one man. It is clear now why God portions it out in those tiny packets.” Homer Simpson

Vice:
Sleeping and cake.