HMHaylee Miles

85B Matangi Road RD4 Hamilton, New Zealand

T (07) 856 5595M 0273551454

hayleemiles899@hotmail.com

Hello,My name is Haylee Johanne Miles.

I live in New Zealand and am moving to Melbourne, Australia, in June this year. I have just completed a degree in Media Arts-majoring in Graphic Design. I completed my degree at the Waikato Institute of Technology in Hamilton.

My passion is Print design, working with publications and promotional work. I love working with typography. My dream job would be working as a Graphic Designer for a successful magazine. View some of my publication work at http://issuu.com/haylee_miles. I also enjoy photography and love integrating the photographs into my work. View some of my photography work, put into publication format at http://www.mediarts.net.nz/wp-content/uploads/media_photography_2.pdf.

I am confident in the Adobe Creative suite and Microsoft Office programs, I also have a basic understanding of web design and photography. I love being part of a team and working to deadlines. I am an organised person with an eye for detail. I

am fun and committed.

I hope you enjoy my portfolio.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

I am friendly; I get along with al types of peopleI am trustworthy, I stick to my word and I am honest

I am punctual, always on time and never late.

PERSONAL SKILLS

I am able to communicate well in conversation, in person or on the phone.

I am able to constantly learn new skills and am willing to accept new challenges.

I am able to gather, study and research information

EDUCATION & TRAINING

2003-2007Sacred Heart Girls’ College Hamilton, New

Zealand NCEA level 1,2 & 3

2008-2010Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton New

ZealandBachelor of Media Arts- Visual Arts

(Majoring in Graphic Design)

HMCURRICULUM

VITAE

Haylee Miles85B Matangi Road RD4 Hamilton, New Zealand

T (07) 856 5595M 0273551454

hayleemiles899@hotmail.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

2004-2008Subway Sandwich Artist- Making sandwiches,

cleaning, working on the till, temperature checking

2007-2008Babysitting- Entertaining and caring for three

children aged 4, 9, 12.

2010Graphic Design three week Internship at

Verdict Communications Ltd.- Working on briefs, photography shoot, helped setting up

an event.

2008- CurrentRetail assistant- Life Pharmacy Chartwell-

Working with pharmaceutical products, taking in scripts, store room (deliveries), cosmetic

services, Kodak assistant-printing films and digital prints, working on Photoshop to improve photos quality, scanning photos to

CD/DVD.

REFERENCES:

Name: Glenn Summerville (to come)Realtionship: Owner Life Pharmacy Chartwell

Name: Eamonn Walsh Relationship: Part Owner of Verdict

Communications Ltd

REFEREES:

Name: Glenn SummervilleRelationship: Owner Life Pharmacy Chartwell

Address: Westfield Shopping Centre Chartwell, Hamilton

Phone: (07) 855 6024

Name: Nicky JohnsonRelationship: Family Friend

Address: Morrinsville, New ZealandPhone: (07) 889 5045

As a Graphic Designer I communicate my ideas visually. I want to not only impress an audience but get them to question what they are seeing. With the freedom associated with Graphic Design I love having the ability to come up with new ideas

and refine old ones to portray a message.

I am on a journey.

I understand the relationship between text and images. I realise the importance of applying them to a brief to create a message or give an overall feel. I utilise my organisational skills to perfectly structure layout, in order to successfully lead an audience through a page. I feel most fulfilled when I have effectively communicated an idea to

a specific audience through a visual layout.

I seek perfection.

I enjoy finding solutions to creative problems. I am interested in producing and creating work that has meaning and looks aesthetically eye pleasing. I am drawn to modern, contemporary work that has a classy and professional feel and appreciate the use of good typography. I am inspired by the thought “less is more.” I am continuously striving to develop the technical skills required to compete

in a fast paced and cutting edge industry.

My journey continues.

HMCREATIVE BIO

Brief: Produce a proposal for a new magazine.

I choose to design a female extreme sports magazine but choose to keep away from the cliche messy, bitsy layouts associated with extreme sports magazines. I decided to give it more of a structured and tidy look, giving some edginess with lines and images bleeding off the page making the layout easy to follow.

URGE MAGAZINE

Brief: Pick an organisation and produce 2 x A3, recto-verso, folded publications.

I choose child abuse as my topic and Unicef as the organisation as this is something I felt strongly about. The posters I designed were notes from children who are currently been used as child slaves around the world. The notes symbolise a child’s innocence and create emotion when read by an audience, which was my main aim.

UNICEF POSTER

A CHILD’S 

IS CRUCIALINNOCENCE

child labour is wrong

Brief: Re-contextualise an existing packaging concept, and produce a new range of a new product. To use an existing structure in a new way.

I have taken a slushy container from Mr Whippy and used it to produce a range of tie dye kits. I have designed a sleeve for the packaging to sit in and a sticker for the top of the container.

TIME 2 DYE

Brief: Choose a magazine genre and produce photgraphs in a similar style. Select and edit photos, put them in to an appropriate media format.

I choose to take photographs of a new Holden Commodore car as it was something I had never done before and I felt was something challanging. I then produced a magazine to put my images into (as shown above). I have called the magazine Sleek.

MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHY

Brief: Re-design an annual report for Environment Waikato and work along side a photographer to get photos for your concept idea.

I have choosen to do a very tidy, simplistic layout for my annual report and have used just the 3 colours throughout, bue, yellow and balck, with different tints. Images have been used to make colallges and the images used beside the quotes are black and white. Overall I wanted a clean, easy-to-read annual report, with the right amount of negative space.

ENVIRONMENT WAIKATOANNUAL REPORT

Brief: Produce a self directed project, based on an area of work that you have interest in.

I have produced a strategy based publication, collaborating peoples responses to the following,

“If I could give one piece of advice it would be....”

Images have been integrated into the publication in random places to add a quirky element to some of the responses.

YOURS TRULY

To whom it may concern,

The following reference is for an exceptional person who will prove an excellent investment for whoever gets to employ her.

Haylee Miles spent three weeks at Verdict as a graphic designer intern in the �nal year of her degree course.

We were having quite a busy spell when Haylee joined us and I’m happy to say she managed to hit the ground running and quickly proved her worth as a valuable asset to our team.

Sometimes we �nd interns can be somewhat time-consuming to accommodate into the schedule of our design studio but Haylee was fantastic...quick, e�cient, on-to-it...probably the best design intern we have had from Wintec. And we have provided many internships to Wintec for more than 10 years now.

Her ability to understand a brief and work independently is impressive. Haylee’s attention to detail and ability to ask pertinent questions is also very reassuring. She is a practical, determined, diligent, hard-working and trust-worthy person with excellent time-management and trouble-shooting skills.

As this experience was just a short term internship to a�ord Haylee a taste of the industry much of her work was assisting on projects. However it is obvious to me Haylee has considerable talent as a designer.

Finally Haylee was very well liked by everybody here – she is a true team player. We wish her well and know she will be an asset to any design studio.

Sincerely,

Eamonn Walsh Creative Director

October 2010

21 Rostrevor Street, PO Box 9179, Hamilton, New Zealand Phone 07 838 2325 Fax 07 838 0321 Email ideas@verdict.co.nz

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© Haylee Miles