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work
2006-2016 Long-term freelance positions held at Haymarket’s Autocar,
What Car?, FourFourTwo and various customer publishing projects including
FA football match programmes; Immediate Media youth titles including Match
of the Day, Top of the Pops and Doctor Who Adventures; shorter bookings held
at a variety of publishers including Bauer, IPC, National Magazines and
Condé Nast’s consumer publishing department
2004-2005 Senior Designer for Bauer women’s weekly, Bella
2002-2004 Year-long contract from launch of Bauer’s Closer, followed
by similar stint at men’s weekly Zoo for its first months. These preceded by
regular short bookings at various other Bauer titles including Empire,
Smash Hits, and Heat
2001 Year spent in Sydney, Australia. Regular freelance positions at Smash
Hits and FHM (Emap Australia), also at RALPH, Woman’s Day and Take 5 (ACP)
1997-2000 Year-long freelance contract at Emap’s Heat, from three weeks
before its launch. Previously, shorter bookings at a variety of magazines
including FHM, Bliss, Kerrang! and Period Living & Traditional Homes (Emap);
Bella (Bauer); 19, Country Homes & Interiors, Shoot and Mizz (IPC);
Ministry and Maxim (Dennis)
1996-1997 Art editor on Students Handbook, an introductory guide to student
life, also deputy editor on award-winning student newspaper Concrete,
University of East Anglia, Norwich
Education
1993-1997 Courses completed in English & American Literature and Italian
Language, University of East Anglia, Norwich
1991-1993 International Baccalaureate, Marymount International School,
Rome, studying higher level Art & Design (A), Literature (B), European History
(C), and subsidiary level Italian Language (B), Mathematics (B), Chemistry (C)
skills
l Thorough knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator & LightRoom
l Keen photographer and illustrator
l Fluent Italian speaker
Matt Fasken cv
about me
I’m a highly skilled graphic designer and art director with a wealth of
experience in a variety of consumer magazines. I’m happy to get stuck into
most aspects of print design, from illustration to maintaining templates,
creating posters and brochures, doing reprographic work and checking proofs.
Samples
Layouts created for Bella, Kerrang!
Legends, Mixmag, Sports Direct and
Autocar. Click to view these and
more designs in my online portfolio.