Kate Hilton

A highly motivated and passionate Graphic Design Manager with over 15 years experience working on luxury fashion and lifestyle brands. I currently work as an integral part of the John Lewis visual design team, taking the creative lead across a range of key campaigns, creating engaging and cohesive visual solutions whilst maintaining a strong brand identity. My role involves setting the creative direction to key campaigns whilst maintaining a modern approach to the design language as well as engaging art direction and generating forward thinking retail experiences.

Taking a holistic approach, my work balances warmth and empathy, with clarity and purpose. I bring to any design team a vest of creative energy, positivity and passion for great design. I have had great pleasure of growing the design team during my years at John Lewis to mentoring and managing a team of multi disciplined designers working on an array of multi-channel graphic projects across mens, womens, kids and homeware.

Developing their career aspirations whilst leading and fostering brilliance across all platforms of design.

Graphic Design Manager at John Lewis & Partners (2019-01 – Present)

As an experienced Graphic Design Manager my current role involves me leading and designing conceptual creative work and visual experiences that can be delivered across omni-channel customer touchpoints. As part of the internal design team I also work alongside external specialist agencies and collaborators to stretch and grow the brand whilst helping to commission the right resource to deliver the desired output. I also manage a team of multi-disciplined designers, working across all touchpoints.

Mid-weight Graphic Designer - Senior Designer - Creative Design Lead at Boden (2013-07 – 2018-12)

Developing and mentoring a small design team it was my role to oversee all branding projects from conceptual stage to execution reporting into the Associate creative director. I worked closely with all departments across the business from Product, Marketing, Press, VM, Web and Retail teams. In this role I was lead designer on the 2018 rebranding project as well as several Christmas and seasonal campaigns, where the creative direction was delivered across all platforms of the business.

Mid-weight Graphic Designer at Cosatto Ltd (2010-10 – 2013-07)

Junior Graphic Designer at Design Force Associates (2009-07 – 2010-10)

BA (HONS) in Graphic Design – University of Central Lancashire (2005 – 2009)

Foundation Art & Design in Art & Design – Winstanley College, Wigan (2004 – 2005)

A-Levels – Winstanley College, Wigan (2002 – 2004)

GCSE – Holy Cross High School, Chorley (1997 – 2002)