I am an established designer with extensive professional experience across business, government and not-for-profit organisations. My design expertise spans from logo and visual identity design to flyers, brochures, event support collateral, annual reports and bid documents, from design to digital delivery or through to print production. No job too big or small.…

Claire Briggs

I am an established designer with extensive professional experience across business, government and not-for-profit organisations. My design expertise spans from logo and visual identity design to flyers, brochures, event support collateral, annual reports and bid documents, from design to digital delivery or through to print production. No job too big or small.…

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I am an established designer with extensive professional experience across business, government and not-for-profit organisations. My design expertise spans from logo and visual identity design to flyers, brochures, event support collateral, annual reports and bid documents, from design to digital delivery or through to print production. No job too big or small.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Brand and Design Coordinator - Freelance and Part-Time at St Agnes’ Catholic Parish, Port Macquarie
October 16, 2017 - October 16, 2024
Servicing 12 different areas of the organisation, each with it’s own brand requirements. Design and production of anything from church service advertisements to aged care resident handbooks, event support material such as banners and brochures and annual reports for three years. iResponsible for taking the job from brief to delivery and quality checks of all material.
Brand and Design Coordinator - Freelance and Part-Time at St Agnes’ Catholic Parish
October 16, 2017 - October 16, 2024
– Servicing 12 different areas of the organisation, each with it’s own brand requirements. – Design and production of anything from Christmas church service newspaper advertisements to aged care resident handbooks, event support material such as banners and brochures and annual reports over three years. – Responsible for taking the job from brief to delivery and quality checks of all material.
Graphic Designer at Hunt & Hunt Lawyers
August 1, 2005 - July 1, 2011
Sole designer servicing the needs of a national law firm including tenders, brochures and digital material. – Working as a member of a small national marketing and business development team – Liaised with marketing team,, Partners and professional support staff – Assisted in the roll out of new corporate branding at a national level – From guidelines, created all new materials from stationery to design templates for use in marketing services and future bid documents
Graphic Designer at Sydney Ferries Corporation
November 3, 2003 - August 1, 2005
Sole designer across the State Government department. Tasks included creating logo options for corporatisation of Sydney Ferries. From the chosen concept, I developed the visual identity and rolled it out across timetables, posters and vessels, provided ongoing graphic design support to the organisation.
Senior Graphic Designer at Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited, London
July 3, 2000 - July 1, 2002
– Providing graphic design services across the business including event support material and printed collateral – Member of the global rebrand roll out team, liaising with colleagues in USA.
Graphic Designer at Texaco Limited (Williams Lea Outsourcing), London
September 1, 1999 - June 30, 2000
– Providing graphic design services through a third party provider to Texaco (Caltex) marketing team
Graphic Designer at Philips Design – Philips Consumer Electronics Ltd, Hong Kong
July 1, 1997 - March 1, 1999
– Providing graphic design services to Portable Audio product sales teams across USA, Asia and Europe – Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team across product and graphic design.
Assistant Designer at General Books, The Reader’s Digest Association Limited, London
July 3, 1995 - January 3, 1997
- Graphic Design Assistant working on page layout for cookery, gardening and law books and learning about print production.
Marketing Assistant (Part-time) at MBC Recruitment
June 30, 2025 - October 7, 2025
Assisting the Marketing coordinator with graphic design, social media and EDM tasks
Graphic Designer and Business Owner at Claire briggs Design
July 1, 2005 - Present
Freelance Graphic Designer offering skills and experience to SMEs, not-for-profit and government departments

Education

Bachelor of Arts at Nottingham Trent University
October 5, 1992 - June 30, 1995
An ideas based course where the foundations of design were taught and explored over a 3 year degree.
Certificate IV Business (Marketing) at Port Macquarie TAFE
February 4, 2008 - October 31, 2008
An evening class to explore all things Marketing.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Graphic Design
October 5, 1992 - June 30, 1995
Certificate (IV) Business (Marketing)
February 4, 2008 - November 11, 2008

Industry Experience

Professional Services, Non-Profit Organization, Government
    paper Liberty DFVSS Impact Report
    A multipage document outlining the annual achievements of Liberty Domestic & Family Violence Specialist Services, 2024-2025 graphicdesigner designforprint infographics…
    uniE621 Liberty Social Enterprise Proposal
    An A5 booklet used as a pitch to sponsors and supporters used at a lunch function to raise funds and awareness for the project. graphicdesigner notforprofit infographics…
    uniE621 Vista WIndow and Pressure Clean - first logo
    The initial logo and brand created for Vista, which then evolved to become Vista Exterior Clean. The client wanted something friendly but professional. I suggested the window reflection in the bubble to emphasise window cleaning. logo branding…
    uniE621 Vista Exterior clean - logo 2
    The client evolved his business to focus on exterior cleaning, including windows. He liked the diamond shape that was part of the window reflection in logo 1, so there was some continuation in shapes as well as colours. logo branding…
    paper Vista Exterior Clean - Capability Statement
    The client wanted something ready to go that could be printed or emailed to interested parties. The diamond was used as a bullet point to pull it all together. collateral branding graphicdesigner pdf…
    paper Diocese Investment Fund Annual Report 2024
    A 20 page annual report with content and imagery provided. Shapes in the document followed the shapes in the DIF logo. Finalised to print production and web upload stage. graphicdesigner annualreport business…
    uniE621 Lifetime Connect - Community Support Services
    Branding development from concept to finalisation of Lifetime Connect and sub-category branding for services including ageing, community, NDIS, child and family. graphicdesigner branding logo…
    uniE621 High School Departmental Logo - HASE
    A logo based around the existing school branding for the STEM Academy of Excellence. graphicdesigner logo…
    uniE621 Acorn Counselling Logo
    Logo concepts, finalisation and usage guidelines for a local counselling professional. Client came to me with the idea of a whole tree in the logo but this concept better reflected the business name. graphicdesigner branding logo…

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