I worked for Business in Africa first as Senior Designer then as an Art Director for a period of 10 months when I was retrenched due to the fact that the company had to cut back and it was not viable for them to retain a full-time Art Director for a limited number of publications. As part of the retrenchment agreement was that I would continue to do the design and layout of the company's own magazine Business in Africa Magazine as well as maintain the existing client base, and that I would have first option to quote on any new projects.
Business in Africa liquidated in South Africa in 2008. However I still continue to do magazine design and layout for the sister company Business & Financial Times, working on their magazine Business Times Magazine, which I recently took over and re-designed. Some clients included Holcim (now Afrisam), Edcon, SITA and Rand Water to name just a few.
Dates: August 2006 - May 2007
Reason for leaving: Retrenched
Responsibilities
My responsibilities, for both the clients and the group, included:
- Conceptualise
- Design
- Layout
- Overseeing Repro & Printing
Projects
Some projects included:
- Corporate ID Design
- Newsletters
- e-Mailers
- Brochure Design
- Promotional Campaigns
- Posters Design
- Advertisement Design
- Banner Design
- Magazine Design
- Annual Reports
- Folder Design
Clients
As the Art Director at the Business in Africa, I was responsible for dealing with numerous client accounts, these included:
- Holcim
- Edcon Group
- Railway Safety Regulator
- South African State Information Technology Agency (SITA)
- Rand Water
- Old Mutual
- ABSA
- Sandton Central, and
- numerous smaller clients
Reference
Name: Carole Muchendu
Position: Editor
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