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I'm a designer from Palmerston North, New Zealand I have been part of the design and printing industry since the 1990's. I've spent many years working in busy graphic design / prepress departments, making sure my designs and our client designs all work and print correctly on offset printing presses and digital printing machines. I have strong skills in graphic design, branding, vector illustration, photo editing and restoration, apparel design, web design, web content and surface design. --- Employment and project experience Senior Graphic Designer / Artist Ziganny Design Limited. _December 2006 - Currently_ Music Teacher, Administrator Kevin Downing Guitar School. _Since January 2016 - Currently_ Graphic Designer K&M Print. _1998 - 2006_ Graphic Designer Swift Print. _1995 - 1998_ Graphic Designer Lifestyle Marketing. _1991 - 1995_…I'm a designer from Palmerston North, New Zealand I have been part of the design and printing industry since the 1990's. I've spent many years working in busy graphic design / prepress departments, making sure my designs and our client designs all work and print correctly on offset printing presses and digital printing machines. I have strong skills in graphic design, branding, vector illustration, photo editing and restoration, apparel design, web design, web content and surface design. --- Employment and project experience Senior Graphic Designer / Artist Ziganny Design Limited. _December 2006 - Currently_ Music Teacher, Administrator Kevin Downing Guitar School. _Since January 2016 - Currently_ Graphic Designer K&M Print. _1998 - 2006_ Graphic Designer Swift Print. _1995 - 1998_ Graphic Designer Lifestyle Marketing. _1991 - 1995_

Tracey Shailer-Lewis

Brand Designer, Book Illustrator, Graphic Designer, +7

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I'm a designer from Palmerston North, New Zealand I have been part of the design and printing industry since the 1990's. I've spent many years working in busy graphic design / prepress departments, making sure my designs and our client designs all work and print correctly on offset printing presses and digital printing machines. I have strong skills in graphic design, branding, vector illustration, photo editing and restoration, apparel design, web design, web content and surface design. --- Employment and project experience Senior Graphic Designer / Artist Ziganny Design Limited. _December 2006 - Currently_ Music Teacher, Administrator Kevin Downing Guitar School. _Since January 2016 - Currently_ Graphic Designer K&M Print. _1998 - 2006_ Graphic Designer Swift Print. _1995 - 1998_ Graphic Designer Lifestyle Marketing. _1991 - 1995_…I'm a designer from Palmerston North, New Zealand I have been part of the design and printing industry since the 1990's. I've spent many years working in busy graphic design / prepress departments, making sure my designs and our client designs all work and print correctly on offset printing presses and digital printing machines. I have strong skills in graphic design, branding, vector illustration, photo editing and restoration, apparel design, web design, web content and surface design. --- Employment and project experience Senior Graphic Designer / Artist Ziganny Design Limited. _December 2006 - Currently_ Music Teacher, Administrator Kevin Downing Guitar School. _Since January 2016 - Currently_ Graphic Designer K&M Print. _1998 - 2006_ Graphic Designer Swift Print. _1995 - 1998_ Graphic Designer Lifestyle Marketing. _1991 - 1995_

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Wellington, New Zealand

I’m a designer from Palmerston North, New Zealand

I have been part of the design and printing industry since the 1990’s. I’ve spent many years working in busy graphic design / prepress departments, making sure my designs and our client designs all work and print correctly on offset printing presses and digital printing machines.

I have strong skills in graphic design, branding, vector illustration, photo editing and restoration, apparel design, web design, web content and surface design.

Employment and project experience

Senior Graphic Designer / Artist Ziganny Design Limited.
December 2006 - Currently

Music Teacher, Administrator Kevin Downing Guitar School.
Since January 2016 - Currently

Graphic Designer K&M Print.
1998 - 2006

Graphic Designer Swift Print.
1995 - 1998

Graphic Designer Lifestyle Marketing.
1991 - 1995

Work Experience

Senior Graphic Designer / Artist at Ziganny Design Limited

December 4, 2006 - Present

Duties include: • Design: Designing corporate branding of logos, business cards, stationery, promotional materials, books. For print and different media including signage and apparel. • Creation of vector based illustrations explicitly for branding, signage, surface design and apparel. • Photo: Photography. High resolution scanning. Photo restoration and manipulation. • Web: Website design, building, maintenance and hosting. Social media updates. • Text: Basic copy writing, text editing and proof reading. • Teaching: Teaching clients website CMS software and how to make their own updates. • Motion/Music: Video editing and music sequencing for video slideshows. Animation. • Tech: Computer backups and maintenance. Monitor calibration. Administration. Hardware and software upgrades. • Sales: Cold calling, visiting clients and prospective clients, discussing design requirements, making the sale. • Print brokering: Scheduling job completion time frames. Liaison with paper and signage printing companies, newspapers, apparel printers and other suppliers. Software used: Affinity: Affinity software since 2016. Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo. Affinity (Canva) since it arrived in late 2025. Adobe: Adobe products since early 1990’s. Favourites are InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Dreamweaver and After Effects. Desktop Software: Also competent with Acrobat, Premiere Elements, GarageBand, Microsoft Office Suite. Online Software/Coding: Wordpress, HTML, CSS, Artisteer, MYOB, Xero, Mail Chimp and Mail Munch.

Music Teacher, Administrator – Kevin Downing Guitar SchoolMusic Teacher, Administrator at Kevin Downing Guitar School

January 11, 2016 - Present

Duties include: • Music Teaching: Teaching guitar and bass students how to play their instrument. Teaching practical tips and breaking difficult concepts down into simple ones to enable students to be able to play and learn their instrument more efficiently. • Often working unsupervised, utilising all of the psychology that goes with keeping a student motivated and going forward with their instrument with confidence, increasing abilities and understanding. • Administration: Writing music charts with music software. Creating artwork and content for social media updates. Editing, writing, designing and sending out Guitar School newsletters in Mailchimp. Creating artwork for Guitar School TV and Facebook page updates. Keeping multible Windows computers running, performing software updates, fixes, backups and general PC maintenance. Updates to Wordpress based Guitar School website. Software used: Desktop Software: Transcribe, Sibelius, Musescore, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, MS Word, MS Outlook. Online Software: Facebook, Wordpress, Mailchimp.

Administration at The Buzz Holiday Programme

January 1, 2016 - October 10, 2018

Duties include: • Keeping MS Access database up to date, banking, roll calls. • Generating stats on centre numbers, following up late payments. • Designing advertising for upcoming programmes, website updates. • Liaison with printers and other suppliers for printing and outworking. • Refining systems and procedures. Software used: Mostly MS Access, MS Excel, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Dreamweaver, Gmail and Dropbox.

Graphic Designer at K&M Print

April 15, 1998 - January 1, 2006

Graphic Designer at Swift Print

January 3, 1995 - October 1, 1998

Duties included: • Design and layout of large 400 page publications. • Designing corporate branding of logos, business card design, other stationery. • Preflight and trouble-shooting files, fixing up errors with colours, fonts, bleed, resolution and overprinting, to ready them for printing. • Scanning, photo manipulation and restoration. • Sort out minor computer crashes, errors and breakdowns, on both Mac’s and PC’s, servers and photocopiers. • File archiving and cataloguing. • Checking films. Software used: Mostly Adobe PageMaker and Adobe Photoshop.

Graphic Designer at Lifestyle Marketing

February 20, 1991 - December 23, 1994

Duties included: • Design and layout of tabloid style newspaper magazines. • Pasting up artwork ready for film shooting • Checking films • Designing tickets and stationery. • Multi colour photocoping. Software used: Mostly Xerox Ventura and CorelDraw.

Music Teacher, Administrator – Kevin Downing Guitar SchoolMusic Teacher, Administrator at Kevin Downing Guitar School

January 11, 2016 - Present