Kelly Chapman has over 20 years of experience as a senior artworker and freelancer. She has worked for numerous agencies creating artwork for projects across various mediums including posters, signage, brochures and digital media. She is proficient in Adobe Creative Suite programs and has a strong portfolio working with clients such as British Airways, Epson, and William Hill.
1. Kelly Chapmancurriculam vitae
seniorartworker
contact info:
07921 639 232
eddwoodchapman@hotmail.com
date of birth: February 1977
education:
1988 – 1993
St. Marks C.E. School
10 GCSE’s
current employer:
Kumquat London Ltd
Freelance Senior Creative Artworker
June 2009 – Current
job description:
I have been freelancing since 2009, setting up as a Limited company in 2010.
Since then I have been fortunate to work with some great agencies; Inferno,
Imagination, Jack Morton, Ogilvy, Purpose, Radley Yeldar, SAS, Sectorlight,
Small Back Room and Venture3 to name a few! Topping up my skills, learning new
ones and working with and preparing artwork on some fantastic projects often
in multiple languages, ranging from POS, large format POS, event signage, van
livery, press ads, leaflets, multiple page brochures and annual reports for clients
such as British Airways, Epson, Expedia, Homeserve, HP, KMPG, Land Securities,
National Geographic Channel, Nokia, Orange, The SouthBank, UK Film Council,
Unite, William Hill, and VMware, the latter enabling me to experience working on-
site’ in Copenhagen, Vienna, Barcelona and San Francisco, keeping the ‘production’
side of things running smoothly, liaising with local suppliers and creating last minute
and additional signage AW etc. I am a systematic, thorough senior artworker, with a
creative eye for detail. A place for everything, and everything in its place!
applemac skills: CS5.5/CS6/CC/CC2014 InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat.
previous employer:
Columns Design
28 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JE
Brian Watson – Production Director – 020 7395 6500
position:
Senior Artworker
April 2006 – December 2008
job description:
I initially joined Columns as a freelancer and as the company grew I was offered a
permanent position as a member of the production team. My workload was prepared
every morning by our scheduler and from there I managed myself, liaising directly
with designers and account managers, taking briefs for various stages of each job,
ranging from amendments, text input/typesetting, layout, image correction and final
artwork. Working at Columns gave me the opportunity to prepare artwork for a wide
range of branding and corporate identity projects, including; large format signage and
POS, floor media, campaign communications, annual reports, direct mail, corporate
literature, advertising and digital work for websites and animations etc. In addition
to artwork I also improved my retouching skills at Columns and they are were used
regularly during my working day there. Clients I have worked for include: ACCA,
Advertising Standards Authority, AXA, Grant Thornton, Institution of Civil Engineers,
InterContinental Hotels Group, Lakeside, London Stock Exchange, Travers Smith,
MS Society and Sue Ryder.
registered in England and Wales no: 7306159.
2. Kelly Chapmancurriculam vitae
seniorartworker
previous employer:
Finisterre
Shiva Building, The Tanneries, 49 – 55 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XH
Sally Horrox – Managing Director – 07973 116 234
position:
Artworker/IT Manager
April 2001 – January 2006
job description:
I took full control of artwork and become actively involved in recruiting, training and
managing a junior, completing the artwork team. I was involved in weekly work status
meetings enabling me to manage my own workload and that of my team, liaising
directly with suppliers and printers and overseeing all final artwork that left the studio.
I also took on the responsibility of ensuring the smooth day to day running of the
studio kit including transferring the studio from system 9 to OSX, overseeing the work
server, internet, email and ISDN connections, archiving via DVD, daily backup and any
problems that occurred with any of macs in the studio, assisted only by an external
IT support company if needed. Clients I worked for include Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank
of Scotland, ITV Digital, Royal & Sun Alliance, HM Land Registry, Cancer Research UK
and Sainsbury’s Bank.
previous employer:
The Formation Creative Consultants
59 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3QW
Adrian Kilby – Managing Director
position:
Artworker/Typesetter
January 1996 – December 2000
job description:
I joined The Formation as a junior designer in January 1996. With lots of client
contact including taking briefs, typesetting and artworking, sourcing suppliers and
overseeing the final print. I was fortunate enough to be part of the development of
a number of high street brands, designing logos, brand literature, brand packaging,
exhibition models and visualising interior design schemes. Clients I worked for include
Pret A Manger, Benugo, Nigel Burgess, The University of Durham, Coffee Republic and
Madame Tussaud’s.
previous employer:
Portobello Press
69-71 Scrubs Lane, College Park, London NW10 6AH
Peter Murtagh – Director
position:
Mac Operator/Typesetter
July 1995 – December 1995
job description:
Progressed my typesetting skills, produced layouts & set up my 1st ever artwork for
leaflets, 4 colour brochures, logos and stationery. I gained a little repro, pre-press,
printing press and colour separation knowledge.
previous employer:
Hippo Graphics
9 Rutland Studios, Cumberland Park, Scrubs Lane, London NW10
Dick Segal – Director
position:
Junior Studio Designer
July 1993 – June 1995
job description:
Client liaison, basic office duties (filing, faxing, admin), technical drawing,
maps, floorplans and illustrations. Design and layout of brochures, leaflets,
corporate logos and stationery.
3. Kelly Chapmancurriculam vitae
seniorartworker
likes =)
Pizza Express, Caerphilly cheese, cinema, BBQs, vodka/tonic ice and a slice,
seedless grapes, Sugar Snap peas, shoes, shoes, shoes, fancy dress parties,
cooking & baking cakes, Jaffa Cakes, Kentucky bourbon, jasmine flowers,
strawberries, blueberries, American Werewolf in London, recycling, pugs,
growing salad veg in window boxes, shopping, more shopping, Chelsea FC,
crunchy peanut butter, boxing (the watching not the taking part!), VW Beetles,
Byron Burgers (all of them!) sleep, 80’s, soul, funk, red wine, freshly cut lillies,
Greek salads (minus the olives), my cat Woody (RIP), Edamene beans,
aerobics (altho I haven’t done any for about 5 years!), milky ‘Millicano’ coffees,
sit-down desk dancing and miming the words, biro sketching, thunder storms,
Never Mind the Buzzcocks, grande hot chocolate no whipped from Starbucks,
Christmas, photographing creepy crawlies, girlie novels (fiction of course!),
Vietnamese food, any kind of animal (except spiders or slugs see below),
Lindor chocolates ‘made by Lindts finest chocolatiers’ (the ones in the red foil!),
mashed potato, Jack Daniels and full fat coke, Vogel bread, Nutella, sambuca,
dishwashers, nights in with my boyfriend Sean and white chocolate chip cookies
(pref chewy ones!).
dislikes =(
Pizza Hut, mushrooms, raisins, limp over-cooked broccoli, school-like custard,
dark rum, liars, doctor appointments, floods, slugs, tennis on TV, fatigue,
olives (black or green), step classes, plastic bags, natural yoghurt, lemongrass,
tube ragers, hairy spiders, non-hairy spiders, McDonald’s and Burger King,
washing up, bad hair extensions, sweet fizzy white wine, dramas-out of-crisis,
skinny coke, marmite (hate it), ginger (the root not the hair colour!), ignorance,
apricots, dirty fingernails, golf, mosquitoes and pollution.