Career Summary

I’m a highly experienced freelance Creative Artworker and Retoucher with over 30 years in the packaging and print industry, and 11+ years as an independent specialist. I’ve partnered with national and international brands across a wide range of agencies, delivering everything from bespoke one-off designs to complex rollouts involving 50+ SKUs for global FMCG campaigns.

My core expertise lies in producing precise, print-ready artwork – predominantly in the food, drink, non-food, cosmetics, and tobacco sectors. I also bring valuable experience in brand guidelines, POS, literature, websites, and presentation design, using the latest Adobe Creative Suite tools with full production know-how.

I manage projects from initial brief through to final sign-off, with strong attention to detail across separations, proofing, and print production. Known for my patient, can-do attitude, I combine technical precision with a creative eye and solid working knowledge of print processes – making me a versatile and dependable asset to any team.

Whether working remotely or on-site, I bring clear communication, adaptability, and a collaborative spirit. If you need reliable, high-quality artwork support, I’d love to hear about your next project.

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Experience

August 2011 – Present | Freelance Creative Artwork Specialist

I’m a freelance Creative Artworker with over 30 years of print industry experience, including more than a decade working independently across artwork creation, retouching, visualising, production management, and IT troubleshooting. I specialise in producing accurate, print-ready artwork for the packaging and print sector, primarily for FMCG, cosmetics, and retail brands.

I’ve collaborated with many of London’s top creative agencies and worked on both national and international brand campaigns—ranging from bespoke designs to large-scale multi-SKU rollouts.

Agencies include:
1HQ, Bloom, Brandme, BrandOpus, Burberry, Cowan, FutureBrand, G2 Joshua, Geometry Global, Halewood International, Hart D’Lacey, Honey, Identica, Illumination, Inspired & Co, Interbrand, JDO, JKR, Lewis Moberly, Lothar Böhm, Pathworks, PD Creative, Pearlfisher, R-Design, Relish Design, Sedley Place, SGK, Sunday Riley, ThreeSixty Design, Tjarks & Tjarks, Turner Duckworth, WMH-I, Wonderland, Wonderworks, and Ziggurat Brands.

Brands and clients include:
Aldi, BAT Dunhill, B&Q, Billson’s, Burberry, Boots (No7), Burt’s Bees, Beiersdorf (Nivea), Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Greene King, Grupo Bimbo (New York Bakery Co., Little Adventures), Hamleys, Keogh’s, Kerry Foods, Kohinoor, Kronenbourg, Lawn Tennis Association, Lidl, Loch Lomond, Lucozade, Medela, Morrisons, Nectar, Nestlé (Nescafé, Purina), Philips Lighting, Cussons (Sanctuary Spa, Fudge), Orangina, Sainsbury’s, Starbucks, Suchard, Tesco, Unilever (Knorr, Flora), Universal, Vodafone, Waitrose, and Yoplait.

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Head of Production and Senior Creative Artworker

Vivid Brand is a Shopper Marketing Design Agency, working with some of the world’s largest brands, including Philips, Coca-Cola, Hamleys, Nestlé, Colgate Palmolive and Universal. Vivid specialise in the complete shopper experience from POS to packaging. Neil’s role included the hands-on management of production personnel (full time and freelance artworkers, retoucher, visualisers) and IT resources.

  • Hands-on artworking, visualising, image creation, retouching and colour balancing.
  • Building interactive PDF and presentation tools and developing client web sites.
  • Managing and IT support, budgeting, planning and implementing all hardware and software upgrades for a network of 25 mac’s and servers.

Clients: Philips, Coca-Cola, Hamleys, Nestlé, Colgate Palmolive and Universal.

Project Manager and Senior Creative Artworker

LFH is a Design and Print Management Agency working for 4 different Unilever food and non-food categories, I was a hands-on the Project Managers on the SCC category (Spreads and Cooking Category) for the European markets. LFH developed and used the latest artworking, repro and proofing techniques

  • Leading and managing a team of 6 to 12 full time and freelance senior artworkers.
  • Hands-on creation and management of over 1200 artwork builds and releases per year.
  • Project development and implementation with clients and suppliers, involving strategic brand planning and development, initial client briefings and stretching known technological constraints and boundaries.
  • Developing, reviewing and implementing new internal production and artworking procedures.
  • Part of the senior management team.

Brands: Flora, I Can Believe it’s not Butter, Stork, Becel. Clients: Unilever and Coca-Cola.

Studio Manager and Senior Creative Artworker

Volcano was a creative agency specialising in FMCG packaging. My role included the day-to-day running of a busy studio, using my full working knowledge of repro, print and new media production and IT to advise, create, oversee and signing off all production artwork.

  • Visualising, high-resolution image creation, retouching and colour balancing.
  • Building an intranet for Nestlé, interactive CD Roms. Full implementation of the agency website.
  • Managing and training a team of 3 artworkers and a member of the executive management team.

Clients: ABF (Ryvita, Crackerbread), B&Q, Dairy Crest, Gerber (Libby’s Organics Juice, Fruit Passion Fairtrade Juice, UmBongo & UmOgnob), Kalido, The Little Big Food Company, LTA (The Lawn Tennis Association), Nelsons, Nestlé (Nescafé, Sun-Pat, Gales, Crosse & Blackwell, Nesquik, Herta, Rowntree’s), Suchard and Yoplait (Weightwatches).

Studio Manager and Artworker

David Tauber Graphics was promotions agency specialising in a wide range of low-cost paper products such as hats, masks, goodie bags and die-cut paper 3D models.

  • Creation of visuals, NPD, designs and artwork, including retouching, illustration, design layouts.
  • Full IT systems support for a network of 10 Macs.

Clients: Esso, Proctor & Gamble, Renault, Ford, Peugeot, McDonald’s, Virgin.

Print Centre Manager and Artworker

The Lewisham Print Centre provided a high-quality printing and design service, offering a complete design and print service. Neil managed print centre with five staff and IT system support.

Education and Qualifications

1984 to 1986 B/TEC Higher National Diploma in Three Dimensional Design, Sheffield City Polytechnic, Sheffield

1982 to 1984 Datec National Diploma in General Art & Design, Barnet College of Further Education, Barnet, London

1977 to 1982 St Marys C.E School, Hendon, London NW9

Software & Systems

Full working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, Dimensions and Bridge.

Over 28 years of user experience and in-house IT support for studio networks, up to and including the latest OSX and managing company-wide network infrastructures and servers, liaisoning with external suppliers on internet solutions, copiers and communication systems.