Lee Duskwick

Lee Duskwick

Graphic Designer at Travel Weekly Group Ltd

Location
London, United Kingdom
Industry
Publishing

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Lee Duskwick's Overview

Current
Past
  • Production Assistant at The Jewish Chronicle

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Education
  • Stanmore College
  • JFS
Connections

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Lee Duskwick's Summary

I am an experienced creative artworker with a firm production background. I demonstrate strong leadership and management skills, as well as excellent layout and design ability throughout a career spanning 10 years.

I am hard-working, passionate and always looking out for new innovations within the industry.

Lee Duskwick's Experience

Graphic Designer

Travel Weekly Group Ltd

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry

July 2011 – Present (2 years)

I work across all the magazines in the company's portfolio, including a weekly, 2 quarterlies and any ad-hoc supplements that come up. I lay out the pages using Content Station and place advertisements as well as checking all ads are suitable for print. If supplied material is not suitable, I alter it to make it suit the correct specifications.

I also work on marketing material including business cards, promotional material for events and provide images and advertisement for the websites.

Senior Designer

Alain Charles Publishing

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry

November 2008 – July 2011 (2 years 9 months)

Senior designer in a department consisting of four people, two based in London and two in India.

Ensured that all content was printed correctly, that the work flows were kept running smoothly and that all deadlines were met for all eight magazines, as well as various supplements and catalogues.

Responsible for flight-checking all ads and positioning them correctly.

In charge of designing and improving layouts and templates for a range of magazines and catalogues, which varied from 28 to 600 pages, making sure all paragraph and character styles were set correctly along with spine widths and cover wraps.

Trained members of staff in using Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign whilst also organising the digital online flipbooks for each title once it had gone to press.

Studio Artworker

Hemming Group

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry

November 2006 – November 2008 (2 years 1 month)

Responsible for overall layout, design and direction of quarterly magazine title with a circulation of 4,000.

I was in charge of creating concepts for various marketing campaigns which included launching new magazine titles and advertising events

I was responsible for designing event paraphernalia which included flyers, tickets, programmes and catalogues.

I designed new logos for events as well as branding for advertisements.

I taught new members of staff how to use relevant programmes whilst at the same time helping them to stay on brand.

I attendied in-house events to get feedback on the branding from exhibitors so improvements could be made if necessary

Production Assistant

Hemming Group

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry

February 2006 – November 2006 (10 months)

I was in charge of sending many weekly magazines to press through a PDF work-flow system.

I spoke with printers to maximise the quality of publications.

I proofed and PDF'd catalogues and directories.

I created PDFs from Quark editorial pages ensuring all fonts and images were embedded.

I designed advertisements and various other web buttons for the sales teams.

Production Assistant

The Jewish Chronicle

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry

September 2002 – February 2006 (3 years 6 months)

I ensured all advertisement were sent in on time and were to the right specifications.

I proof-checked pages and advertisements before sending them to print.

I dealt with printers and distribution companies to ensure a smooth running of the printing process.

I created excel spreadsheets for accounting and analysis purposes.

Lee Duskwick's Publications

  • Travel Weekly

    • Travel Weekly Group
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    Travel Weekly is the leading trade magazine for the UK travel industry

  • Aspire

    • Travel Weekly Group
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    Aspire comprises a quarterly print publication and accompanying interactive magazine, a members-only website plus luxury forums for suppliers and agents.

  • Travolution

    • Travel Weekly Group
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    Travolution is the UK’s leading multi-media brand for the online travel industry focusing on innovation and digital strategy.

  • Oil Review Middle East

    • Alain Charles
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    Oil Review Middle East is the region's leading English- and Arabic-language oil and gas magazine.

  • Technical Review Middle East

    • Alain Charles
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

  • Communications Africa

    • Alain Charles
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    Communications Africa/Afrique is the premier telecoms and broadcasting magazine for Africa.

  • Far Eastern Agriculture

    • Alain Charles
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    Far Eastern Agriculture is the region’s leading agricultural magazine.

  • African Farming

    • Alain Charles
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    African Farming and Food Processing is the only magazine for the agricultural and primary food processing industries distributed throughout English-speaking Africa.

  • African Review

    • Alain Charles
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    African Review is Africa's premier English-language business magazine.

  • Oil Review Africa

    • Alain Charles
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    Published six times a year, the magazine covers E&P, upstream and downstream across the African continent.

  • Travel Bulletin

    • Alain Charles
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    Travel Bulletin is a weekly magazine for UK travel agents.

  • LAPV

    • Hemming Group
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    LAPV provides the latest news for plant and vehicle managers in both the public and private sectors.

  • The MJ

    • Hemming Group
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    The MJ is the leading weekly local government management magazine.

  • Surveyor

    • Hemming Group
    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    Surveyor is the primary resource for engineers involved with the local government technical professions.

  • The Jewish Cronicle

    Authors: Lee Duskwick

    The Jewish Chronicle is the world's oldest and most influential Jewish newspaper.

Lee Duskwick's Courses

  • Independent Coursework

    • Photoshop
    • Dreamweaver

Lee Duskwick's Education

Stanmore College

Advanced AVCE, Information Technology

2000 – 2002

JFS

1995 – 2000

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