1. Objective:
I am looking for the opportunity to expand on my experience and begin my design
career. I would love to work with other designers, and designers of more experience. I
look forward to utilizing my skills in print, editorial and corporate design; as well as my
intelligence and work ethic, to become an asset to a company; but I am also hoping to
learn more about design and about myself as a designer. I am looking for the opportunity
to hone my skills and build successful relationships though my abilities and ideas.
Experience:
MYTRAK Health System
Full time Graphic Designer
June 2009 – Current
As the only graphic designer on staff I am responsible for all print material,
Education:
packages, sell sheets, flyers, reseller packages, sales packages, trade show material, Seneca@York
logos, websites, and corporate standards. This has been a wonderful learning Graphic Design
experience, as I have a great deal of responsibility, and a heavy workload to manage. 2004 - 2008
At Seneca I learned the professional value of creative thinking,
Tribute Magazine how to structure good creative solutions and work closely with
7-week internship others on a deadline. I discovered a love of typography, and was
Spring 2009 encouraged to hone my natural ability in composition, colour, and
While interning at Tribute Magazine, I gained invaluable experience. Not only did I illustration in the direction of professional design solutions.
have to fall into another, well established aesthetic quickly in order to be productive
and useful, but also I learned how to take specific direction and criticism, and York University
anticipate corrections to my work through experience of my manager’s expectations. Philosophy
2001 - 2003
Freelance I have always loved to learn, and I continue to learn new things
2007 - 20010 every day. Attending York University for philosophy taught me
I have produced paintings on commission, as well as sold work privately. I have how to think critically, ask insightful questions, and articulate
also worked as a freelancer for the last 4 years, designing identity plans, movie myself clearly and eloquently in both conversation and writing.
posters, promotional material etc, for clients, with whom I have had successful,
lasting working relationships. In early 2009, I worked for Seneca College as a
researcher for their Design for Social Change class.
Skills:
• Artist: painting, illustration, photography Lauren Jane Penney
• Proficient in In Design, Illustrator, & Photoshop Graphic Designer
• Excellent print, editorial, corporate &
campaign design skills w: www.laurenjane.net
• Excellent copywriter p: 905-302-2789
• Intelligent and creative e: lauren.jane@live.com
• Articulate & well spoken
• Excellent research & organizational skills
• Highly detail oriented

2. One of designs most fundamental tasks is to give
life and voice to words and concepts...
Strategic Planning and Research
- strong investigative and analytical skills
• Brand Positioning
• Consumer orientation
• Consumer Literacy
• Qualitative and Quantitative research
• Market Evaluation
As a designer, my significant aesthetic skills
• Using Research to Create are augmented by my skills as an author, a
Designs with Relevance businessperson, a consultant, and a thought
leader. A clear explanation of esthetic logic
supported by visual standards and imbued
with creative enthusiasm ensures that
my designs are current, relevant, visually
satisfying with a clear structure.
Using Research to Create
Designs with Relevance Design is becoming increasingly integral
- strong information organizations skills
to modern societies ability to adapt to
change. And to express how we feel
• Brand Expression about these changes, to help us be active,
cognitive participants in our rapidly
• Name Generation changing world. Culture evolves. We
are always challenging long-standing Lauren Jane Penney
• Corporate ID Design relationships with morality, technology,
space (both public and personal) as well Graphic Designer
• Literature and Editorial Design as information and individuality.
w: www.laurenjane.net
Good design facilitates seamless movement p: 905-302-2789
• Promotional Design
e: lauren.jane@live.com
from fast to slow, virtual to physical,
cerebral to sensual, static to dynamic, global
to local, inorganic to organic.
They say a product is
spectacular when it is
creative, innovative,
strategically relevant,
rigorously executed, and
when it delivers.
I would say the same
thing about a designer...