Richard’s 17 years as a graphic designer, production artist, concept artist, art director and artist have left him with extensive experience in design, printing, publishing and web development while working with many distinguished clients and brands. His skills are self taught, acquired through on the job experience through years of hard work, perseverance, research and the drive to create, improve and succeed.
His work history has involved concept and design of advertising, retail, and collateral media which included large format printing, packaging, die cutting and reproduction along solving IT and design technical issues. The clients he has worked with include African Sales (COTY), Prestige Cosmetics, Ster Kinekor (Playstation) and Disney to name but a few. The tools used include Adobe CS6, an Apple iMac, a creative imagination, a passion for art and design, loud heavy music, his creative bag of tricks and chocolate.
SKILLS
Operating Systems
Advanced
Intermediate
Basic
Mac OS
Windows
Linux
Applications
Advanced
Intermediate
Basic
Photoshop
InDesign
Illustrator
QuarkXpress
Acrobat
Dreamweaver
Flash
Knowledge
Advanced
Intermediate
Basic
Prepress/Print Production
Graphic Design
Visual Art
Visual FX
Typography
Layout
Colour Theory
Composition
WordPress
HTML, CSS, PHP
Information Technology
Photography
Video Production
3D modelling
Digital music
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Richard George Davis
Dates
Location
Hours
Website
Description
November 2004 – Present
Johannesburg, South Africa
Part time
Creating of websites, logos and personal artworks.
This is what I do for fun in my spare time, creating personal artworks with an emphasis in digital composition which encompasses photo manipulation and montage, with an occasional mixture of digital painting and a variety of traditional techniques that I’m constantly exploring and developing.
Reward Ventures
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Location
Contract
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Website
Description
Senior Designer and Production Artist
August 2003 – Present
Johannesburg, South Africa
Permanent
Full time
Below the line advertising, marketing and communications.
Graphic design, dtp, prepress, web design, management of the design studio and liaising with clients and printers.
Responsible for the overall assignments from clients brief, concept and design of advertising, retail, and collateral media which included large format printing, packaging, die cutting and production along with the management of the design studio, liaising with clients ensuring that their briefs and production requirements are met, solving IT and design technical issues.
The clients have include African Sales (COTY), Prestige Cosmetics, Ster Kinekor (Playstation) and Disney to name but a few.
ADOS and Associates
Role
Dates
Location
Contract
Hours
Description
Senior Designer, production artist and Studio Manager
May 2001 – July 2003
Johannesburg, South Africa
Permanent
Full time
Below the line advertising, marketing and communications.
Graphic design, dtp, prepress, management of the design studio and liaising with clients and printers.
Responsible for the overall assignments from clients brief, concept and design of advertising, retail, and collateral media which included large format printing, packaging, die cutting and production along with the management of the design studio, liaising with clients ensuring that their briefs and production requirements are met, solving IT and design technical issues.
The clients included Nu Metro Distribution, Nu Metro Theatres, Blockbusters, Euroline Group, CRL Group, The French Embassy, GTV, Vision Africa, The Knob & Knocker, Hewlett Packard, JD Edwards and KPMG to name but a few.
The Gendel Group
Role
Dates
Location
Contract
Hours
Website
Description
Graphic designer
April 2000 – April 2001
Johannesburg, South Africa
Permanent
Full time
Above and below the line advertising, marketing and communications.
Graphic design, dtp and prepress.
Responsible for design assignments under the leadership of the manager and art director. This included the design of advertising, retail, and collateral media.
The clients included Daimler Chrysler Financial Services, Rennies Foreign Exchange, Glasfit, Momentum Life, HASS, Medicross, Beige and Vitalab.
Freewind Publication
Role
Dates
Location
Contract
Hours
Description
Retoucher, junior designer, IT and later art director
April 1998 – December 1999
Johannesburg, South Africa
Permanent
Full time
Consumer and corporate publisher.
Designer, Art Director, dtp and prepress.
Responsible for design assignments under the leadership of the manager and art director. This included designing and laying out of magazines, digital effects and IT.
The magazine included Directions (Male fashion/lifestyle), Divestyle (Scuba diving and travel), Blush (Female teenager fashion/lifestyle), VIA (Corporate title published for Volkswagen South Africa) and Smart Fashion (Corporate title published for Smart Centre, a large retail clothing chain).
In-Detail
Role
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Location
Contract
Hours
website
Description
Designer
March 1997 – March 1999
Johannesburg, South Africa
Freelance/contract
Part time
Below the line advertising, marketing and communications.
The Bureau Imaging Centre
Role
Dates
Location
Contract
Hours
Website
Description
DTP, production artist, IT and later department head
March 1996 – March 1998
Johannesburg, South Africa
Permanent
Full time
Printing.
DTP, prepress, press, web design, management of the studio and liaising with clients.
Responsible for printing of materials from film, lazers and chromalins, scanning on flatbed and drum scanners, digital effects, retouching, deep etching, paginating of multi-paged booklets and brochures, managing and maintaining equipment, hardware and software (processors, image setters, computers and scanners), managing the archive system.
the overall assignments from clients brief, concept and design of advertising, retail, and collateral media which included large format printing, packaging, die cutting and production along with the management of the design studio, liaising with clients ensuring that their briefs and production requirements are met, solving IT and design technical issues.
Phoenix Repro & Litho
Role
Dates
Location
Contract
Hours
Description
Designer & IT
January 1997 – January 2005
Johannesburg, South Africa
Freelance/contract
Part time
Below the line advertising, specialising in labels and flexo printing.
Clients & Brands
African Sales (COTY)
Calvin Klein, Antonio Banderas, Avril Lavigne, Carolina Herrera, Chloe, Christina Aguilera, Davidoff, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Dunhill, Givenchy, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Jennifer Lopez, Kenzo, Lacoste, Blackup, Lancaster Sun, Marc Jacobs, Paco Rabanne, Prada, Puma, Quorum, Roberto Carvalli, Shakira, Tabac, Vera Wang and Versace.
Disney
Various movie related point of sale and collateral.
Ster Kinekor
Playstation (PS, PS2, PS3 and PSVITA) and Movie related point of sale and collateral.
Prestige Cosmetics
Molton Brown, Elemis and Chanel.
DaimlerChrysler Services
Various Chrysler advertising, point of sale and collateral.
Debis Fleet Management
Various Mercedes-Benz advertising, point of sale and collateral.
Capital
Capital Resources and Capital Securities.
EGL
European Gemological Laboratory and College of Gemology.
Other clients and brands
Nu Metro, Look & Listen, JPTime, JP Krugerrand, BT Games, Man Finance, Momentum, Sasol, Eco Wash, ITT South Africa, Xylem and its various associated brands, Knob & knocker, The French Embassy, AveryDennison, Glasfit , Nampak, Phonak AG, Rennies Bank, Blockbusters, Roman’s Pizza, Merial, and IMS Engineering.
AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS & FEATURES
Richard’s artworks have been showcased worldwide in different printed and digital magazines such as Advanced Photoshop Magazine, Photoshop Creative Magazine and Practical Photoshop. Among many international awards and features, Richard has received Four Daily Deviations Awards from deviantart.com, two Editor’s Choice Awards from photoshopcreative.co.uk and seven Daily Feature Awards from shadowness.com
Practical Photoshop magazine February 2013
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Photoshop Creative magazine issue 94
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Advanced Photoshop magazine issue 102
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Photoshop Creative Image of the Month Award featured in Photoshop Creative magazine issue 92
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Photoshop Creative Image of the Week Award
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Deviant Art Daily Deviation Awards
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Shadowness Daily Feature Awards
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Print Store
Prints and products can be purchased through the print store.
These artworks are also available for licensing as background set dressings, magazine articles and cover artwork for albums.
