I'm a 34 year old ex-procrastinator turned learning hungry designer and entrepreneur. I have a burning passion to live and breath creativity, design, branding & marketing. I love to learn new skills, keep up with industry news & trends to better equip myself for the future. I've worked with over 200 companies (big and small) prior to becoming a self employed entrepreneur. I started with small gigs where ad design, brochures and flyers were the focus. I later worked for a globally renowned luxury dayboating brand who closely collaborated with parallel industry leading brands. Here my task was to fill in the boots of a sole graphic designer & creative to push, innovate and create design and brand awareness over plethora of channels and media. I now bring everything I've learned for the past 10 years in the corporate world into my own freelancing career. One thing you might have thought is still missing from my profile is the mention of AI. Although proficient in integrating AI into my workflow, I've taken a few careful steps away from it. Overuse or even a moderate use of AI will eventually lead your products to merge into shelves of commodity. There will be a lack of authenticity and lack of human touch that we all will feel in the near future. I am consciously taking this step to already foster this atmosphere. --- **Employment and project experience** **Marketing Content Producer** Axopar Boats Oy _June 2021 - April 2024_ **Communication & Marketing Assistant** Axopar Boats Oy _December 2018 - June 2021_ ** Graphic Designer And Project Assistant** Pietarsaaren Cityryhmä _June 2016 - July 2018_

Niko Bruno

I'm a 34 year old ex-procrastinator turned learning hungry designer and entrepreneur. I have a burning passion to live and breath creativity, design, branding & marketing. I love to learn new skills, keep up with industry news & trends to better equip myself for the future. I've worked with over 200 companies (big and small) prior to becoming a self employed entrepreneur. I started with small gigs where ad design, brochures and flyers were the focus. I later worked for a globally renowned luxury dayboating brand who closely collaborated with parallel industry leading brands. Here my task was to fill in the boots of a sole graphic designer & creative to push, innovate and create design and brand awareness over plethora of channels and media. I now bring everything I've learned for the past 10 years in the corporate world into my own freelancing career. One thing you might have thought is still missing from my profile is the mention of AI. Although proficient in integrating AI into my workflow, I've taken a few careful steps away from it. Overuse or even a moderate use of AI will eventually lead your products to merge into shelves of commodity. There will be a lack of authenticity and lack of human touch that we all will feel in the near future. I am consciously taking this step to already foster this atmosphere. --- **Employment and project experience** **Marketing Content Producer** Axopar Boats Oy _June 2021 - April 2024_ **Communication & Marketing Assistant** Axopar Boats Oy _December 2018 - June 2021_ ** Graphic Designer And Project Assistant** Pietarsaaren Cityryhmä _June 2016 - July 2018_

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I’m a 34 year old ex-procrastinator turned learning hungry designer and entrepreneur.

I have a burning passion to live and breath creativity, design, branding & marketing. I love to learn new skills, keep up with industry news & trends to better equip myself for the future.

I’ve worked with over 200 companies (big and small) prior to becoming a self employed entrepreneur. I started with small gigs where ad design, brochures and flyers were the focus. I later worked for a globally renowned luxury dayboating brand who closely collaborated with parallel industry leading brands. Here my task was to fill in the boots of a sole graphic designer & creative to push, innovate and create design and brand awareness over plethora of channels and media.

I now bring everything I’ve learned for the past 10 years in the corporate world into my own freelancing career.

One thing you might have thought is still missing from my profile is the mention of AI. Although proficient in integrating AI into my workflow, I’ve taken a few careful steps away from it. Overuse or even a moderate use of AI will eventually lead your products to merge into shelves of commodity. There will be a lack of authenticity and lack of human touch that we all will feel in the near future. I am consciously taking this step to already foster this atmosphere.


Employment and project experience

Marketing Content Producer Axopar Boats Oy
June 2021 - April 2024

Communication & Marketing Assistant Axopar Boats Oy
December 2018 - June 2021

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Graphic Designer And Project Assistant** Pietarsaaren Cityryhmä
June 2016 - July 2018

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Bachelor of Graphic Design at Novia University of Applied Sciences
September 10, 2012 - December 22, 2017

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Industry Experience

Consumer Goods, Professional Services
    uniE621 Vaellus - Wilderness App Logo concept
    The logo is for a wilderness exploration app for primarily Finnish Lapland but expanding to other famous national parks in the Nordics + North America. Vaellus is translated to Hiking in English. I was the design lead (graphic designer) for this and hopefully it will see the light of day in the coming future. logo graphicdesigner designer app ios android
    uniE621 Axopar Product & Brand Brochure
    While working at Axopar Boats I was crafting, designing and printing their brand & product brochures. Brochures and other related print design were my main responsibilities. During my years at the company I learned much about: optimal product placement, copy layout, image hierarchy, optical flow and storytelling. The focus of these brochures were to showcase the brand products in the most striking way while weaving in an underlying story. The sample is the latest edition of it (as of posting).
    uniE621 DJ Denkka logo project
    The project had a simple premise; design a logo for an old-school DJ. The task's simplicity made it also challenging, in a good way. This particular DJ had been active since the 80's and had yet to have any graphic material or markers to his name. I took on myself to ask about him but didn't get much tangible data to go by. So I decided to choose the best starting point I had so far; his name - DJ Denkka. After a couple days of iterations I came to the version you see here. KKA is the most characteristic part of his name Denkka, and I feel that the whole DJ part came as an atmospheric package. Most his clients already know him from decades back anyway. This logo is well rounded as in it easily fits in almost any space or format both in present and future. It can be displayed in colour or in b&w. Both parties were satisfied with the results and how the whole project had flown effortlessly from start to finish. Unfortunately due to project priorities I am unsure if he has made efforts in fully utilising this new logo in his gear, clothes or merch. This was my very first electronic dance music (EDM) themed project, but hopefully not the last.