About me.
Nicola Field or just call me Nic.
Hey! I’m touched that you want to find out more about the designer behind the name of the business. I am one of those unique ladies who has built her design career from the ground up over a period of 14 years. Starting from a hard working A* A level student working for free for a previous freelancer. My various employment journey ended as a Senior Email Design Specialist with a vast award winning portfolio of blue chip clients such as Budget rent a car, Virgin, Interflora and Startrite shoes. Along the way I have learn’t the core design skills for print design, digital design and branding design.
Present Day!
I’m now a trusted recommended Freelance Creative Professional working for various business areas such as retail, charity, hospitality, beauty, fashion, home care and recently the thriving roofing industry – Recognised for my expertise by Master Roofers on sitebag.co.uk .
I’ve worked with various marketing agencies based in Sussex, London and Milton Keynes area on a project by project basis.
My favourite tools are Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Quark, WordPress and CapCut.
Not everyone can afford a full time designer or a marketing team – that’s why my creative services are an ideal fit.
If it needs creating, I can create it!
My Passion
To be a reliable design solution whom you can trust to take a simple brief and use my unique inspirational design skills to create a brand, digital asset or print item that will guarantee results you and your colleagues can be proud of.
Past employment.
Senior Email Design Specialist
RedEye International
Milton Keynes & Eastbourne
Progressed from Email Design Executive to Senior Email Design Specialist in 2 years within the company. Managing team, design/building responsive award winning email journeys to short deadlines for major blue chip clients such as Halfords, Budget Rent a car, Warner hotels, Crag-hoppers, Interflora, Haven Holidays, Start-rite and many more recognised brands.
I liaised with clients and worked with Account Managers to create Photoshop visuals, making all necessary amendments to design/build best practice emails ready for deployment and marketing campaigns.
Middle/Senior Digital & Print Designer
Illife Digital News & Media
Milton Keynes
Illife owned regional newspapers within the UK who brought Apollo Digital (Content managed website Design Agency) and MKWEB due to newspapers demanding an online presence.
The team consisted of me as main designer and 5 web developers. As the main designer the responsibility was challenging. It often required advanced skills which involved meeting deadlines, producing high quality bespoke websites, print, flash adverts, animated gifs, brochures and branding. Being present at first briefing specification meetings accompanying the Manager Director to places such as Jersey for ‘Channel Online TV’.
Junior Graphic Designer
The Select.co.uk e-commerce
Bletchley
I started with 0 work experience in the design industry with no knowledge of Adobe Software. After just a week’s trial I was employed due to my fast learning and clear natural creative skills.
Trained by the Senior Designer I soon developed the basic skills in Photoshop designing magazine articles, catalogues, simple websites, logos, banners and stationary to support the e-commerce website. The team began as 2 people which soon experienced a successful growth to 12 staff. I learn’t after this role to never say no and by keep my can do to try attitude.
My Creative Services:
Print Design
Digital Design
Branding Design
What people say about me…
Nicola worked on an exhibition project for me delivering multiple artwork options, and liaised with printers to ensure final print ready artwork. Nicola was able to understand and deliver this project from a brief to a very high standard. I was extremely happy with the final designs and Nicola’s support really help to delivery the project on time and on brand. Communication with Nicola was easy and quick. And off the back of this project, I will be looking to work with Nicola on future campaigns.”
Nicholas Lake, Marketing Lead at JJ Roofing Supplies.
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Nicola designed a variety of digital assets for us to help boost our brand image and engagement. Nicola was friendly, professional and offered suggestions to improve our original briefs and proposed ideas. She was able to work around us to deliver design changes promptly within our tight deadlines. We have already seen an improvement in engagement, with our paid adverts increasing from 0.23% to 1.2% CTR in just one week amazing. I would highly recommend Nic!”
Laura Woodfine, Marketing Manager at Jarrang.