Natalie Adkins

Designer and Illustrator

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EXPERIENCE ABOUT ABOUT

Scope | Junior Designer My name is Natalie, I am a creative, reliable,

November 2021 - present motivated, and friendly self-starter with a
background in graphic design and illustration with a
Linguaphone Group | Designer professional background in children’s
January 2019 - March 2019 educational publishing and as an in-house
designer and illustrator.
Skoolz Academy | Illustrator / Designer
September 2018 - December 2018 I am a trustworthy hardworking team member who
can also work alone on my initiative. I always strive
Noodoll | Designer / Studio Assistant to continue to build my skills with a strong desire to
August 2017 - September 2018 learn, adapt and develop my abilities.

My work is characterised by a love of colour, pattern,

EDUCATION and playfulness which is applied to advertising, edi-
torial, publishing, and surface pattern design projects.
Kingston University Analogue methods and happy accidents are at the
BA (Hons) Illustration & Animation core of my process where I enjoy painting and mark
2:1 / 2014 making with gouache, ink, and crayons.

Chelsea College of Art & Design When I’m not working I enjoy ceramics,
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design cooking, and my cat.
Merit / 2011

Blackfen School for Girls

Four A Levels and eleven GCSE’s
Grades A* C / 2006- 2010

SKILLS
Adobe Creative Suite Illustrator, InDesign,
Photoshop, After Effects, Microsoft Office Suite,
Procreate
SCOPE
I deliver engaging designs across Scope’s offline and online
marketing projects, ensuring all outputs are of the highest standard.
I support in the delivery of high-quality print and digital materials;
which include fundraising materials, retail POS, booklets, leaflets,
posters, social media and web assets.

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STUDIO PISTACHIO
Inspired by trends, humour, and pop culture icons, I hand illustrate
and design humorous card designs using both Procreate and
Photoshop. Through my natural awareness of current trends,
fashions, and pop culture I have gained a commercial understanding
of my key target audience and demographic. I can work towards
tight deadlines and create work based on current events and
trending memes.

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MIXED UP DRINKS
For my Illustration and design for Mixed Up drinks I used bright,
considered colour palettes that are fun and, although slightly playful,
they are still clearly professional and mature in their appearance.
I created hand cut collaged shapes which I then vectorised on
Adobe Illustrator to create a graphic and abstract fruit inspired
pattern.

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SKOOLZ ACADEMY
Skoolz Academy is a publishing house creating products
enhanced by technology for 3-11yr olds, specialising in
modern foreign languages, STEM, coding, and robotics. I worked
alongside the team at Skoolz Academy to produce illustrations and
design book spreads. Alongside creating illustrations I have
assisted in the development of the Skoolz Academy identity, brand
and creating marketing materials for the social media channels.

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NOODOLL
In addition to graphic design, I can also create animated gifs and
motion graphics. My role at Noodoll required me to create
engaging new content for the website, social channels, and
newsletter. In addition to this, I also created animated gifs of all
their characters for their website.

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HYVITA
Hyvita, was looking to work with a designer to create a new brand
identity and a set of 8 custom icons to help with their
marketing and communications both in print and digitally. The style
I decided on for his icon set uses thick keylines and flat colour as it
suited the direction of the brand and the audience the client is
targeting.

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PINGU’S ENGLISH
In this role I collaborated with the marketing manager and lead
designer in the creation and execution of six illustrated educational
children’s books on Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator. I created
both print and online promotional marketing materials and artwork
design which included assets like Facebook banners, Instagram
posts, flyers, and posters in Photoshop to be used by Pingu’s English
partners worldwide.

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ZZZ
I started this brief by exploring different patterns and shapes that
could then be integrated into the brand collateral and
packaging. I began by exploring different patterns on paper,
using some brush pens and paintbrush strokes then scanning these
gestural marks.

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