Karen Willcox

• While looking for a product designer position, I am freelancing on various projects in the field of product, brand design and graphics.

• Managing various design projects within a set time frame (6-12 months) while directly working with clients and other collaborators, creating large-format books of 200+ pages. Clients include Rick Mather Architects and Gustavo Gili.

• Finding clients, by making contacts and networking, maintaining strong partnerships with reoccurring clients, resulting in over 40 monographs and books published internationally. Clients include John Wiley & Sons and RIBA Publishing.

• Creating a design concept and language for Jon Wiley Publisher for a series of essays and visual content by internationally renowned architects resulting in a 14 book series over 10 years.

• Designing a two-book collection about Spanish sustainable architecture, organising text and technical information (plans, diagrams, and other visual data) of over 40 authors per book into a highly successful publication series, each book over 200 pages, for the Spanish editorial Gustavo Gili in Barcelona

• Produced the design material for over 10 exhibitions for Thomas Williams Art Gallery. Material including, catalogues, invites, posters, and advertising.

Creation of a feature to personalise courses for their users, based on their own choice of skills and profiles. A 3-week sprint with 2 developers, through various iterations creating Figma mock-up pages and prototypes to create the new feature for their web-based platform.

• Designing the Sibstar mobile app and responsive website with a focus on the user interface and accessibility. Creating mock-ups and interactive prototypes, handover to developers, as well as creating a design system.

• all marketing and promotional material, both digital and print, as well as updating the website.

• Working remotely, on a tight schedule, in a small team to launch spring 2022.

• Sibstar is a new highly secure, card and app designed to help families living with dementia safely manage their daily spending. Sibstar is part of the Alzheimer's Society Accelerator Programme.

• It has been shortlisted for a "Financial Inclusion Award" at the FStech 2022 awards.