Dan Joseph Farnan - Curriculum Vitae Email: Daniel_Farnan@live.co.

uk Mobile: 07990640438 Secondary Mobile: 07886061220

Profile: I am a graduate and experienced Graphic designer with high calibre skills in the Adobe Design suite and am from the ground up a creative thinker. Concept art and art direction with branding, packaging and advertising are my strongest areas. From the initial concept freehand drawing to the finished product, I am a proficient and reliable punctual designer that plans ahead and schedules his working week to meet deadlines.

Profession: Graphic Designer/Marketing - For Business and Art direction.

Work Experience:

July 2007 to current date: Graphic set designer (art dept) Sterling Television Belfast. Management and design of large scale props for television series one of 'SEACHT' aired on TG4 and BBC2 previously. Main responsibilities were art direction and management for set background props, environmental design for scenes shot in bars, restaurants and public venues. Creating a mood within the scene with graphic design scenery such as A1 billboards, A2 posters, menu's, flyers and promotional material for the series.

Shopping Bag Warehouse ltd, Lisburn Creating from the ground up branding of the business, watermark and logo design, building net designs of shopping bags for high end retail stores in Lisburn and locally in Belfast stores.

Action Cancer, Malone road, Belfast Managing a team designing a National Campaign for breast cancer awareness through out northern Ireland. 48 sheet scale billboard design, Bus shelter ADSHEL posters and general promotional material targeted at the 40+ female demographic.

Education Background 7 GCSE's at grade C and above: Art & Design: A Technology & Design: B English: B Double Award Science: B,B Mathematics: C History: B AVCE Art and Design: Grade: A,A BTEC Diploma Foundation Design: Grade: Distinction Degree with Honours - BDes Design for Visual Communication University of Ulster

Hobbies and Interests I am a creative person at heart and enjoy sketching and life drawing in my spare time. I keep myself in shape with long distance running and like to get an early start to the day most of the time. I enjoy attending local art clubs with friends and getting together for exhibits of design work, painting and sculpture. I have a great admiration for the arts as a designer. I am very sociable and extremely well to get along with, I have a high energy level that Is directly reflected in my day to day work, as my life style is quite motivational. Personal Statement I feel I can work well both in teams and independently, I have strong art direction skills within the design and office environment and when I get new Ideas for design projects I usually find myself writing them down on a note pad any time of the week. I consider myself a proactive, creative, energetic and all round passionate graphic designer and management candidate, I genuinely have an admiration for what I do. I hope to bring to your business my skills, personality and most of all, strong creative ideas and solid design work and management skills.