Inside Otago Community Newspaper - Graphic Artist/Design and I.T Co-Ordinator
Duties
Design all adverts and prepare a proof for client to sign.
Design page layouts and typesetting ready for printing co-ordinating with editor to ensure space. Both in Adobe PageMaker and CorelDraw.
Editing of older adverts and converting to newer digital format, as Inside Otago was the first newspaper in the region to go fully digital.
Producing newsletters, eNews, booklets, price lists, flyers in CorelDraw.
Working with both CMYK and RGB images, manipulation of images to produce require advert idea.
Formatting of files and converting to PDF ready for pre-press and printing.
Build, design and maintain company website, having the stories and articles online (again one of the first newspapers to do this) in a similar layout to the printed newspaper.
Answering phones and customer liaison, email queries and quotes.
Aspects of business investigation and marketing & problem solving.