1. Simon Brake
Profile
2a North Villas
Camden Town
London NW1 9BJ
United Kingdom
I am creative, reliable and hardworking and I understand the importance of providing quality
customer service, even when under pressure. I also have close to 20 years experience with
Quark, Photoshop and Illustrator and 10 of InDesign, working for diverse multinational brands,
such as Lloyds, MBNA and Tesco. I am equally at home working in a team or flying solo.
Having got married in 2015, I am currently looking to find new challenges closer to London.
Career
2012 – 2016 Creative Artworker, Xerox, Welwyn Garden City
The majority of my work has been for clients such as Lloyds (including Halifax and
Bank of Scotland) and TSB, creating literature and layouts for their marketing campaigns.
2010 – 2012 Creative Artworker, Freelance, London
Clients included Lloyds TSB, Barclays, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, AXA Wealth,
Coca Cola, Morrisons, Reebok, Sky, Tesco and Wickes, working on marketing campaigns
and costumer-facing literature.
2009 – 2010 Creative Artworker, PA Consulting, London
Artwork and overlooking multi-page documents, such as in-house magazines, reports and
brochures, for this global consultancy. This included image research, sourcing and retouching.
2008 – 2009 Artworker, Freelance, London
A notable client during this time was Carnegie Orr, for whom I prepared annual reports for final
print, and oversaw final work to double-page spreads and cover photographs prior to completion.
2008 Artworker/Typesetter, Radley Yeldar, London
Here I worked on annual and interim corporate reports, as well as documents concerned with
corporate responsibility, for many of Radley Yeldar’s high-profile clients. Great attention to detail
and branding was essential.
2004 – 2008 Creative Artworker, MBNA/Bank of America, Chester
(the studio later became part of Williams Lea)
Working in-house alongside the creative team and account executives, I was responsible for
taking work to finished artwork stage, including graphics generation and image manipulation.
2001 – 2004 Creative Artworker, Mellon Global Investments, London
Originally freelance, as part of the investment firm’s in-house team,
I worked on layouts for brochures, quarterly reports and adverts.
1999 – 2001 Freelance Artworker, London
Agency freelance artworker for several small design studios across London.
Typical work included catalogue, brochure and press ad artworking.
1997 – 1999 Creative Artworker, Kysen/Design FX, London
Brochures, leaflets and corporate reports for a variety of corporate clients.
Mobile: +44 (0)7429 884 262
E-mail: simon.rj.brake@gmail.com
Flat 20, Venice House
Aventine Avenue
Mitcham
Surrey CR4 1GB

2. References
Craig Lowe
Studio Manager, Xerox Studio
Telephone: 0170 735 3804
craig.lowe@xerox.com
Ed Horrocks
Head of Branding, PA Consulting
Telephone: 020 7730 9000
ed.horrocks@paconsulting.com
Chris Seaman
BNY Mellon, London
chris.seaman@bnymellon.com
Sanella Cox
Volunteer and Work Placement Officer, SCILL
Telephone: 020 8770 4415
sanella.cox@scill.org.uk
Key Skills
Personal interests
• Desk–top-publishing
– InDesign / Quark XPress
– Photoshop
– Illustrator
• Gathering information
• Enthusiastic and motivated
• Good team player
• Problem solving
Key Skills
I also enjoy drawing and painting, but have a passion for writing too. I’ve spent some time supporting
charitable organisations – I volunteered at the Sutton Centre of Independent Living and Learning
between 2010 and 2011, which supports disabled people who want to live in the community, and I have
also previously worked with the charity Poet In the City, who aim to bring poetry to a larger audience.
I have laid out and provided illustration for a privately printed book, and created an advert for another
more commercially available one.