Graphic Designer

Brian Anthony Byrne

PERSONAL DATA

Address : Blk 160. #02-311 Mei Ling St, S140160

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

Email : ***********@*****.***

Tel (H/p) : 93887180

Online Portfolio : www.behance.net/byrnebrian

EXPERIENCE

Nov 2019 – Jul 2020 Nest Communications Pte Ltd

Senior Graphic Primary Responsibilities:

Designer (Freelance) • Creative duties include carrying out creative pitches for Shopping Mall Campaigns, Print media: Newsletters, Brochures, Pamplets for Govt sponsored bodies, Healthcare and Bio-Medical Pharmaceutical Industries.

June 2016 – Oct 2019 5 Stones Pte Ltd (Boutique Design House)

Senior Graphic Primary Responsibilities:

Designer • Creative duties include looking after client’s Corporate Branding Identities, Print production for Annual Reports, newsletters, brochures, corporate literature, Producing artwork for EDMs, Corporate Collaterals, Factsheets, B2B items.

Aug 2015 – May 2016 Human Capital (Singapore) – An approved & funded CETC Human Resource School

Senior Corporate Primary Responsibilities:

Communications • Creative duties include looking after Corporate Branding Identities, Marcom duties,

Executive Producing artwork for EDMs, Corporate Collaterals, Factsheets, B2B items.

Mar 2015 – Aug 2015 Freelance Art Director / Creative Designer / Illustrator

Senior Graphic

Designer / AD Primary Responsibilities:

(Freelance) • 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 Primary Responsibilities:

Designer (Freelance) • 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 Print media, Magazine Ads, TVCs and Radio ads.

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.

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 Chrome, 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.

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.

Languages

Spoken and written: English and Malay

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.

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