I'm Emma Goodman, a designer and artworker with extensive experience creating print and digital design for newspapers, magazines, corporate identities, posters, and exhibition displays. I specialise in designing and presenting pitch and tender visuals, brand guidelines, and infographics, guiding work from concept through production across both print and web platforms. Based in Edinburgh, I enjoy collaborating with clients and suppliers to manage production schedules, budgets, and timelines while maintaining brand consistency. I also lead photography direction and post-production, and I enjoy using After Effects to create animated elements for online publishing.

Emma Goodman

I'm Emma Goodman, a designer and artworker with extensive experience creating print and digital design for newspapers, magazines, corporate identities, posters, and exhibition displays. I specialise in designing and presenting pitch and tender visuals, brand guidelines, and infographics, guiding work from concept through production across both print and web platforms. Based in Edinburgh, I enjoy collaborating with clients and suppliers to manage production schedules, budgets, and timelines while maintaining brand consistency. I also lead photography direction and post-production, and I enjoy using After Effects to create animated elements for online publishing.

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I’m Emma Goodman, a designer and artworker with extensive experience creating print and digital design for newspapers, magazines, corporate identities, posters, and exhibition displays. I specialise in designing and presenting pitch and tender visuals, brand guidelines, and infographics, guiding work from concept through production across both print and web platforms.

Based in Edinburgh, I enjoy collaborating with clients and suppliers to manage production schedules, budgets, and timelines while maintaining brand consistency. I also lead photography direction and post-production, and I enjoy using After Effects to create animated elements for online publishing.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Designer at DC Thomson
January 1, 2023 - Present
Designing news and feature pages for the Press & Journal, Evening Express, Evening Telegraph, The Courier and supplements and advertorials.
Freelance Designer and Artworker at Various Clients
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2023
Design and artwork for print of monthly magazines, posters, adverts, corporate identity; produced animated snaps for Snapchat using After Effects for MailOnline.
Designer at dmg media - Metro
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018
Design of news, features, advertorials and supplements including Guilty Pleasures, Property, Weekend sections; freelance work for DC Publishing, Daily Mail, DTP, The Herald, TMOS, Paramount Creative and The i newspaper.
Editorial Designer at Johnston Press
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2016
Design and artwork of front, news and feature pages for Edinburgh’s Evening News, The Scotsman and advertorials and supplements; design of corporate identity and infographics; subediting and proofreading copy.
Designer at The Art Newspaper
January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2013
Design and artwork for print of monthly newspaper, supplements, web banners; design and production of daily paper; commissioning designers and photographers at art fairs in Basel, New York and Miami onsite in temporary offices.
Designer at City AM
January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2013
Design of news and feature pages, supplements, infographics; colour correcting images; late changes with breaking news; uploading pages to print and FTP sites and producing web version of paper.
Designer at Freelance
January 1, 2004 - January 1, 2006
Freelance design work for Art Review, The Big Issue in Scotland, Carnyx Group, Sunday Herald, The Herald Magazines, British Horse Society Scotland, The Independent, Black Beauty, Self Build Homes, SHE magazine, Building Design and Art World Design; concepts and layout for print – advertising, corporate identity, magazines, exhibitions and brochures.
Designer at Vision Thing Design Consultants
January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2004
Design of brochures, websites and publications. Clients included DeVere, Origo, Ethicon and The Balmoral Hotel.
Designer at Astron, Edinburgh
February 1, 2000 - January 1, 2002
Design and artwork of marketing materials for Scottish Executive; writing briefs and pitch documents and presenting visuals to Scottish Executive Project Managers; freelance design for agencies including Creative Link, Crimson Edge PR, Teviot Design, Holt Marketing and Tayburn; artwork of packaging, annual reports, magazines and marketing material.
Designer at Insider Custom Publishing, The Insider Group
January 1, 1997 - January 1, 2000
Design and layout; commission of photography for magazines and publications for The Scottish Banker, Scottish Power, Royal Bank and Scottish Provident.

Education

BA [Hons] Visual Communication at Edinburgh College of Art
January 1, 1997 - February 16, 2026

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Education, Software & Internet, Other