The document is a resume for a graphic designer seeking new opportunities to expand their experience and hone their skills. The designer has over 10 years of experience in print, editorial, and corporate design. They are proficient in design programs like InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop and have strong research, analytical, and communication skills.

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...