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Contact telephone number: 07547 150764
daniel.mills1962@yahoo.co.uk • danielmills1962@gmail.com
2012 – Present Daniel Mills Limited, London – Senior Print/Digital Artworker | Creative Retoucher | Illustrator |

Production Specialist | Storyboard Artist

 

Currently I run my own Limited Company, Freelancing in and around the London area. Please see the links to my website below:
http://da9619.wix.com/danielmillslimited​

2007 – 2012 Mornington Graphics, London – Creative Retoucher/Artworker
Mornington Graphics is a small in-house production studio inside the Creative Services Department of Wunderman.
My duties primarily involved retouching images for high end production and Web site production. I also produced artwork

using Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5. Clients included Ford of Europe, Land Rover, Mazda, Microsoft, Jaguar, Nokia
and Telefonica.

 

1998 – 2007 JWT, London – Senior Digital Artworker
JWT is a well known, highly regarded Advertising Agency dealing in all aspects of digital and traditional Artwork and Design.
My duties covered the production of artwork ready digital files as part of a busy advertising studio. I also assisted in the maintenance of the system and provided technical expertise to other artworkers when necessary.

Clients included Shell International, Vodafone, Coty, Diageo, HSBC, Merrill Lynch, Mazda, Rolex, Tourism Ireland.

 

1997–1998 Lewis Moberly, London – Senior Digital Artworker
Lewis Moberly is a major award winning design agency based in Central London with many Blue Chip Clients.
My responsibilities were to produce artwork ready files from design layouts and oversee the production of digital artwork by

other artworkers and freelancers. I was also responsible for limited system maintenance when the Systems Manager was unavailable and provided technical assistance to designers when requested. Clients included Barclaycard, Bollinger, Boots,

Berry Bros & Rudd, Bristol International Airport, Geffrye Museum, Halfords, Pretty Polly and Sharwoods amongst others.

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1996–1997 Lever Brothers, Kingston – Apple Mac Operator/IT Manager
My responsibilities included the running of a small in-house Creative Services Department and its’ mac network. Co-ordination of artworks and designs produced by external suppliers and design agencies. Liaison with these suppliers and other intercontinental offices of Lever Europe, ensuring the despatch and storage of artworks as appropriate. Projects varied from internal and external presentations, repro quality files and promotional materials and stationery on most Lever brands such as Persil, Domestos, Dove,

Jif, Surf.

1991-1996 Storyboard (GGT), London – IT Manager/Mac Operator
Storyboard was a Visual Marketing Consultancy whose clients included Britvic, Citibank, English Heritage, Epicure,

Hewlett Packard, Lacoste, Rolls Royce, Sainsbury’s, Tomy. I was offered the position of a full-time employee at this company

after working continually in a freelance capacity for over three years. I worked alongside designers producing a variety of both corporate and packaging artwork and design implementation. My main responsibilities were the production of artwork and the maintenance of the mac network.

1988-1991 – ​VRB Design, Kent – Paste up Artist, Illustrator
I had a wide variety of design and artwork experience at VRB. Self-taught in use of Apple Macintosh. Program knowledge of: QuarkXPress, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Freehand. I worked on a range of adverts, brochures, comic strips, corporate identity, packaging, report & accounts, signage, stationery, technical manuals, leaflets and design. Clients included The Orchard (Saatchi’s Facilities Group), GGT and a long working relationship with Storyboard/Option One which led to full-time employment.

1983-1988 British Distribution Co., Tottenham – Assistant Studio Manager
BDC was a U.K. electrical distributor with their own in-house studio. Duties included artworking of packaging for own-brand products, illustration and co-ordination of a monthly product brochure.

 

1978-1983 Mason Clark McKenna Associates, London​ – Junior
Started at a Junior position and after 1 year was promoted to the drawing board as a Paste-up/Keyline Artist. Work experience in

all general artwork and PMT usage, design finishing, paste-up and cartoon illustration. General artwork and design duties for major London agencies. Clients included Kodak, M.O.D., Ratners, Stanley Tools, Van Den Berghs, VG Stores.

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Skills and experience​​​​

I have been using Apple Macintosh Computers for artworking, design and retouching purposes for thirty plus years. The applications I am most familar with are Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat. I have a working knowledge of MS Office. In my last full-time position at Mornington Graphics I was responsible for the studio’s proofing system, running and maintaining Epson large format printers. I have been responsible for maintaining small mac networks and I am familiar with cloud based utilities.
I also have limited experience of Windows and various online utilities for dispatching artwork to remote sites. I have an excellent 
knowledge of cross-platform file transfer as well as extensive experience in pre-press, production and colour management. With the shift in demand for online content I have also expanded my skill set in producing back-end iPad assets, hyperlinking large InDesign documents and producing simple animations using Photoshop's timeline. I have also had experience of producing layouts and artwork on the Canva platform for a Pharma client.