Areas of Expertise

Art Direction
Branding
Packaging
Digital
Social
Video editing
Project Management

About me…

I am a passionate creative who loves art, drawing, painting, yoga and meditation. I am a traveller, I love travelling and hope to do it for the rest of my life. In my spare time I love learning and growing, at the moment I am taking on SketchUp to add to my skill set. I have a curious mind and am always looking for opportunities to learn something new.

I am a motivated, professional Senior Integrated Designer and Project Manager. I have over fifteen years of Creative Design experience in Australia and UK. I am ready to take on a Creative leadership position within a team utilising my design and project management skills. 

I have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the entire creative process from brief through to concept, art direction, presentation, implementation, finished art, and production. I’ve been expanding my experience into Customer Journey (UX), Strategy and Project Management.

I thrive in companies and environments that are dynamic and innovative. I love working in teams, collaborating and brainstorming together - we become work family.

Email
juliemurace@hotmail.com

Phone
0404 085 854

Technical Skills

Creative Suite - InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat.
Other programs: Keynote to storyboard, imovie/Photoshop/AfterEffects/PremierPro and smartsheets.

Clients I’ve worked with

Areas of expertise

Concepting, art direction, branding, project management, advertising, OOH, window displays, brochures, packaging, POS, catalogue design, DM, digital - eDMs, banners and social assets, event layouts, logos, presentations and pitch documents.

Projects I’ve delivered

•Dyson QVB pop up
• Dyson WashG1 campaign launch
• Dyson Airstrait campaign launch
• Dyson formulations launch - chi|to|san
•DysonSupersonic campaign relaunch
•Dyson Corrale retail path to purchase
•Dyson V11 station domination
•Social media
•Vodafone
•ADMA Creative school
•iris Worldwide agency
•GAP
•Banana Republic

Academic achievements

Design School
Certificate IV, Interior Decoration
Apr 2023 - May 2024

Australian Film Television and Radio School
Certificate, Cinematography and Film/Video Production
Apr 2022 - Five day intensive course

Public speaking for Life
4 week course - Speech writing and delivery skills
July 2019

National Art School
Certificate in Life Drawing
February - April 2019

ADMA Creative School
10 weeks - Art Direction
Sydney August - October 2016
Awarded: 3rd place in class

Flash Design
30 Hour Beginner Course - Tafe NSW March 2009

HTML For Email Marketing
1 Day Course - Fearless Media Group P/L March 2008

Diploma Graphic Design
Hornsby Tafe NSW 2003 - 2004

Career Achievements

Dyson 
Senior Designer: May 2015 – Present

Working in the Creative Hub on various integrated branding projects from concepting to finished art. Having a holistic view of the whole creative process this enables me to own my projects from start to finish. I manage my time to ensure jobs are out by deadline. Reporting into the Creative Lead within Australia as well as liaising frequently with our CoE partners in Singapore APAC. Dyson has been known for ground breaking technology entering the market of late, enabling me to take part in bringing this to life.

Project Management: June 2022 – June 2023 (Maternity cover)

Managing Dyson’s fixtures in 3rd party retail stores, I work on SOW updates to our fixtures briefing external shop fitters to roll out/update. Along with updating fixture and planograms to support the current Dyson range, I also lead creative briefings of artwork, maintenace of fixtures and 3rd party floor relays displaying our fixtures. We have weekly WIPs with our shopfitter/agency and bi weekly WIPs with our team in Singapore, aligning on making Dyson fixtures compliant.

Vodafone Australia 
Designer/Creative Artworker: April 2013 – December 2014

At Vodafone I worked within the creative team reporting directly to the Creative Director. While having a holistic view of store planograms some of my duties included working on the global brand guidelines, create POS and ads for above and below the line advertising which sometimes included mocking up for visual reference. Innovation meetings answering to business briefs, liaising with Accounts, Art Directors and Creative Director. 

iris Sydney Pty Ltd
Finished Artist: November 2011 – March 2013

At iris Advertising Agency I worked in the studio within a team of 3. I Worked on various clients such as Shell, Adidas, Stockland, Sony, Diageo, Bendon, Christchurch to name a few to create POS, advertisements, web pages and eDMs. Working in Agency meant working on pitches to secure future clients. During my time at iris I increased skills including detail and minor retouching with Photoshop. Liaising with Accounts, Art Directors and Creative Director.

GAP/Banana Republic
Designer/Artworker: July 2010 – August 2011

Working with production and Marketing I had to design/artwork advertisements and POS for GAP and Banana Republic in Europe and worldwide stores. This enabled me to show my skills in design and attention to detail in artworking. Some highlights were creating a Look Book for the stylists to use in UK and Europe. One of my main objectives within the studio was to create windows for all of the GAP stores within the UK and Europe.

New Look
Designer/Artworker: March 2010 – April 2010

I worked in the e-commerce team liaising with the Head Designer and Marketing Team to produce weekly Creative emails and website layouts. Following style guides for New Look I designed/artworked weekly emails sent to over 100,000 members within Europe.

Sanity/HMV/Virgin Music
Designer/Artworker: January 2009 – July 2009

I worked in the marketing team, designing and creating all marketing materials, including advertisements for various magazines, POS for Sanity, HMV and Virgin Music stores. I liaised with an agent in China to produce samples before going to print. I worked with Fox, Paramount, Grease and Hasbro to create merchandise to sell in stores.

Ricky Richards
Designer/Artworker marketing: January 2006 – January 2009

Artex Sample Makers
Typographer for screen printer: January 2005 – December 2005

Freelance

Momento Hospitality 2022 - Current
Design/Artwork logos and packaging

Sydney Agencies DDB and Havas December 2014 - May 2015
Design/Artwork

Stature Financial Group September 2013 - 2020
Design/Artwork marketing materials

Tesco Entertainment August 2009
Web maintenance - updating Tesco Entertainment website ready

Creo: Retail Marketing September 2009
Design/Artwork - POS and POP on brands such as Casio, Filofax and Merrell

Erasmus October 2009
Design/Artwork - Packaging for a range of energy drinks

References
Available on request