This document provides a summary of the author's professional career and design work. It includes details about their education, work experience with two companies over 11 years, areas of design expertise including photo manipulation and logo design. Samples of design work are presented for advertising campaigns, magazines and clients in different industries. The author expresses a desire to be self-employed and expand their client base while focusing on photo manipulation, editorial design, and online work.

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ello, and thank you work that i have produced
for taking the time to along the years.
go through this quick My favourite aspects of
summary of my profession- design are photo manipu-
al career and have a look lation, editorial layout and
at some of my work. logo design.
In the following pages i I hope that this document
have put together a few serves its purpose in helping
words and details about you decide if i can be of
myself, together with a any useful service to your
sample of some of the business’ design needs.
Born 5th May 1980, Taurus
Been drawing/sketching/designing since early age
Quite the geek, proficient with both PC and MAC oper-
ating systems, as well as photoshop, illustrator, indesign
and any other application i set my mind on using
Graduated in Communications at the University of Malta
I like pondering life, and working towards becoming a
better human being :)
Address. Flat 12, Joslin Court, J. Quintinus Str., Qawra.
Contact. 7946 6116, 2157 4327
Email. chaos@maltanet.net
Web. www.edge.com.mt COMING SOON
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hortly after i graduat- potential, building relations
INTRODUCTION
ed in communications with clients and earn-
some 11 years ago, ing their trust, increasing
i started my first full time my awareness about the
employment with Standard whole notion of design in
Publications Ltd., where life and how it permeates
i worked on all design not only within society, but
related jobs ranging from throughout nature itself.
newspaper adverts to the
pagination of many supple- Which brings me to the
ments, First magazine and now. i recently concluded
later on manic! magazine. it was time for me to move
These 4 years served as my on and pursue a life-long
basis and introduction into dream and give a shot at
the professional design field. being self employed. i am
currently expanding my
Around mid 2004 i hap- small client base, with em- This is a recent photo
pened to be approached phasis on photo manipula- manipulation i completed
by Executive Services Ltd, tion, editorial design and before leaving Executive
who i ended up joining online work contracts. Services Ltd. Part of a set of 9
and working for with utmost I find the prospect of being for Bay Radio’s Live Life
dedication for almost 7 in control of my own career The Bay Way Campaign.
years. At esl my expertise in very exciting, and am
I love photo manipulation,
the design field improved determined and confident
and would like to focus on it
considerably. My passion that in time i will establish
and introduce more of this
for design went from being myself in the field and be
uncommon genre of
somewhat of a neces- of service to the industry, advertising here in Malta.
sity, to a way of life. I was never giving up, always be-
exposed to a myriad of ing the best i can be, while
design applications, further always trying to bear and
enhancing my skills and spread a smile :)
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4. Another artwork for the Broken shards and splatter
Live Life campaign which is effects are the main com-
currently not being used. ponents applied to this rock
The image above serves to themed campaign artwork.
show the types of editing
involved, including skin ton-
ing and airbrushing, highlight
and shadow enhancing
and so forth.
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5. Magazine artwork created Another artwork created
for a local outdoor sports with a minimal brief. i was
company. This is a good told to convey a feeling of
example of artwork created relaxation, while still appear-
with a minimal brief and with ing stylish and trendy.
no supplied high res artwork.
As it turns out, it was deemed
too relaxing when consid-
ering the music actually
played on the station :D
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6. Artwork for local client promoting Campaign visuals for
his new range of headphones. A a local initiative to
photoshoot was set up in order to promote local wines
have local DJs wear the products.
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7. Logo concepts for the wine promo- Logo design together with concept
tion campaign mentioned earlier. sketches and variants supplied to the
I like to sketch my ideas whenever client before choosing the final colour
i can before taking them to the scheme and transition.
computer, though at times playing
around with elements on screen of-
fers a certain flexibility which is not
always achievable by hand, i feel.
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8. Some of the design work
done for the company, in-
cluding news ads, stationery,
flyers, folders and stickers.
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9. Logo propositions for an
information systems company.
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10. Brochure visual for a Packaging for a car digital
yacht leasing project radio sold locally.
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11. Packaging and advertising for the
local cheesy snack Twistees and
Tastees. The tastees packaging
has, to the best of my knowledge,
not been implemented yet.
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12. Logo designed for a Maltese
company operating in the UK. The
client provided a brief indicat-
ing that he wished for a basket
full of Maltese foods. The basket
was rebuilt in vector, and the
items drawn from scratch then
vectored, retaining a sketchy look.
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13. Head was merged with a
different body in order to
achieve a better posture.
Here again the couple was
super imposed onto the back-
ground, taking into considera-
tion size, perspective etc.
I was in charge of producing the past artworks for Bay’s Live Life The Bay Way
campaign. Once again ESL organised a photoshoot and i constructed and
edited the artworks. All of these artworks are heavily edited, often replacing
whole parts of a scene, changing limbs, adding backgrounds etc.
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14. Stationery set for a bedding company
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15. A project i completed recently, the design of a fresh Sometimes you gotta do
new logo for a renowned local brand. This logo has whatever it takes to stay
been approved and will eventually replace the cur- positive and keep yourself
rent logo, together with new packaging etc. amused lest the stress takes
over completely!
That’s all folks - Thank you and keep smiling!
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16. MAY 2011