Senior designer with 12+ years of industry experience in editorial design, content creation, art direction and consultancy across multiple sectors.

Michaela Pointon

Senior designer with 12+ years of industry experience in editorial design, content creation, art direction and consultancy across multiple sectors.

Available to hire

Senior designer with 12+ years of industry experience in editorial design, content creation, art direction and consultancy across multiple sectors.

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Freelance, senior designer at self employed
January 1, 2023 - Present
Working across different industry sectors; helping and supplying organisations, small businesses, publishers and creatives to build and deliver their branding and identity through engaging, multi-disciplinary, design outputs.
Printing and Design Assistant at Newspaper Club
September 1, 2019 - October 1, 2022
Assisting customers throughout the printing and production process; providing step-by-step guidance on setting up print files inline with requirements for digital and offset printing methods.
Art Director of Illustration & Animation at Culture Trip
January 31, 2018 - September 24, 2019
On-boarding and managing interdisciplinary creative teams between London and New York; establishing brand identity at large and for all illustration and animation output. Establishing in-house and external brand guides and cross-collaborating with commissioners and editorial leads, copywriters and directors to align identity across global hubs and editorial campaigns. Project management and implementation of brand and identity across global offices and supporting the emergence of creative value and practices within the company and its culture.

Education

1st Class BA Hons Communication Design at Glasgow School of Art
September 1, 2008 - June 1, 2012
L3 Counselling Skills at Southport Tech
January 8, 2025 - July 8, 2025
Btec National Diploma at Southport College of Art
September 1, 2007 - June 1, 2008
Illustration
Btech National Diploma at Southport College of Art
September 1, 2004 - June 1, 2006
Fine Art
Level 3 Certificate In Counselling Skills at Southport College of Art
January 6, 2025 - May 21, 2025
Counselling Skills Level at Southport College
January 1, 2025 - January 1, 2025
BA(Hons) Visual Communication (1st Class) at The Glasgow School of Art
January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2012

Qualifications

1st Class BA Hons Communication Design
January 8, 2025 - May 21, 2025
Level 3 Certificate In Counselling Skills
September 1, 2025 - September 25, 2025

Industry Experience

Education, Media & Entertainment, Non-Profit Organization, Government, Travel & Hospitality, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Other
    How To Cure A Ghost
    Branding and Editorial Design for Fariha Róisín's How To Cure A Ghost, featured on Substack. logo branding graphicdesigner webdesigner designer editorial
    Dancing With Pain: Insights Into Ecological Pain
    A series of interactive and visual guides documenting performance research for Dr Sarah Hopfinger; an award-winning Queer Disabled artist and researcher based in Glasgow, Scotland who’s work centres around live art, dance, choreography, performance, disability and crip practices, queerness, ecology and environmentalism performance graphicdesign editorial research typography layout workshops
    AOL Magazine
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    Grief Studies Zine
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    Illustration
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    Glasgow Art Map
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    Political Party Handbooks
    Published by Elect Her, in partnership with 50:50 Parliament – a series of digital political party handbooks to help Women get started in UK politics and stand for office design branding graphicdesigner editorial publicsector resources toolkits typography layout
    Monocle Magazine
    Editorial Designer for issue 141 – Let's Do Better graphicdesigner branding editorialdesign promotionaldesign
    Culture Trip
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    Editorial Sleeves
    Cover work archives graphicdesigner branding designer editorial bookdesign layout typography archives