Davina Ansong

I'm a London-based freelance designer with many years of experience designing a wide range of items for print and screen. My special areas of interest are information design (including document simplification and wayfinding), usability and accessibility.

Graphic Designer (freelance) at Various clients

• Currently creating long documents (bids, instruction manuals and workbooks)

Brand Designer at Great British Railways Transition Team

• Corporate brand designer creating documents, PPT presentations and reports
• Championing the brand and applying the guidelines to internal and external documents
• Encouraging colleagues to use the in-house brand studio

Artworker at Williams Lea

• Corporate document design for abrdn investment bank
• Worked as part of the in-house design studio setting up templates and providing documents for time-sensitive board meetings and reports

Graphic Designer (freelance) at Various clients

Document and branding design for multiple clients.

• Document and branding design for clients including Sudler & Hennessey, Saffrey Champness, Montagu Evans LLP, British Dental Association, Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, Secure UK Services Limited

Graphic Designer (freelance) at Watch Tower

• In-house designer to architectural design department working on an 85-acre live/work development
• Designing a wayfinding system, planning documents, a studio manual, Adobe InDesign/MS Word templates
• Training architects to use InDesign

Graphic Designer (freelance) at IBSA

• Part of a team responsible for creating branding for an international event attended by 50,000 delegates
• Branding was applied to a delegate pack, as well as wayfinding signage and a 22-ft wide stage backdrop for the event
• Keeping the event website up-to-date using a bespoke CMS

DTP Operator (p/t) at British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery

• Working on monthly 144-page journal from keyed manuscript through to final paginated text
• Creating XML versions of articles
• Drawing line illustrations and editing images for use in monthly journal
• Designing and producing Bone & Joint360 magazine (bi-monthly) and books commissioned by the Society
• Producing marketing material from design through to print-ready artwork

Graphic Designer at Peabody Trust

• Designing and overseeing all publications in line with corporate identity and 'Plain English' standards
• Project management/information architecture of a user-centred intranet content management system; writing intranet content and updating website
• Line management of Intranet Administrator and running training courses

Graphic Designer at Trinity College of Music

• In-house designer responsible for the effective use of corporate identity and design of a range of items including the alumni magazine, concert posters and programmes, brochures
• Also responsible for website re-design and prospectus artworking

BA (Hons) in Typography & Graphic Communication – University of Reading (1999)