Sylvina Johnson

Creative with 13 + years of agency experience working across B2B, B2C and B2G clients. Experienced in concept devleopment, brand visual strategy, print and digital design. Focused on creative team development, creative culture and service enhancement.

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Sylvina Johnson

Head of Design
Creative Lead
Design Manager

Experienced Senior Creative Lead with 13 years of agency experience, progressing from design intern to senior leadership.

Focused on implimenting strong creative practice, efficient processes, cross team collaboration and team development. A strong senior art director able to ensure strategic deployment of concepts from ideation to delivery.

Specialising in brand and digital design, with strong experience across B2B, B2C and B2G clients. Known for building creative, confident teams and improving creative quality, consistency.

Able to lead in creative service development, improving client offerings and impacting agency growth. Track record of successfully managing large complex projects across mutliple teams, designers and stakeholders.

Education

UX Design Practice Certificate
University of London, 2021

BA (Hons) Product Design - First Class
Staffordshire University, 2013

Employment

Starbots Creative Ltd.
Head of Design / Senior Creative Lead
2022 - Present

Starbots Creative Ltd.
Lead Creative & Studio Manager
Sept 2019 - Jan 2022

Starbots Creative Ltd.
Senior Designer
Sept 2017 - Sept 2019

Starbots Creative Ltd.
Mid weight Graphic Designer
Sept 2015 - Sept 2017

Starbots Creative Ltd.
Junior Graphic Designer
Nov 2013 - Sept 2015

Starbots Creative Ltd.
Design Intern
Sept 2013 - Nov 2013

References

Lauren Adair
Events Co-ordinator
Cliff College (Freelance Client)
E: l.adair@cliffcollege.ac.uk

Kate Cooper
Managing Director
Starbots Creative (Employer)
E: kate@starbots-creative.co.uk

Management Skills

Team management
Design training
Team development
Workflow & studio management
Project & delivery management
Capacity planning and reporting
Service development
Stakeholder & account management
Quoting & resourcing
Cross-functional collaboration
Design advocacy with directors
Client management
Creative culture developement
AI policy development
Inclusive design policydevelopment

Creative
& Technical Skills

Brand strategy & brand guardianship
Visual campaign strategy
Visual brand research
Concept presentation
Art direction
Digital & print design
Motion graphics
Footage editing
UX research
UX design
Accessibility & inclusive design
Campaign design
Editorial design
Concept creation & visual strategy
Basic HTML / CSS
Gen AI prompting

Software Skills

InDesign
Illustrator
Photoshop
After Effects
Figma
Affinitiy
Firefly

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