Creative
Graphic Designer resume example
A creative resume that stays single-column and plain, because the portfolio is where the design goes.
Invented for this page. The name, the employers and every number in it are made up — a real resume is somebody’s personal data and is not ours to publish.
Ines Delacroix
ines.delacroix@example.com | +33 4 55 50 01 22 | Lyon, France
Summary
Brand and product designer working across print and digital for consumer retail. Most recently built a component library that cut campaign asset turnaround from 6 days to 2.
Experience
Senior Graphic Designer
Nov 2021 – Present
Maison Verrier, Lyon, France
Cut campaign asset turnaround from 6 days to 2 by building a 40-component library the whole team works from.
Redesigned the product page template, raising add-to-basket rate from 3.1% to 4.4% across 900 listings.
Produced 3 seasonal campaigns a year spanning 120 assets each, delivered on schedule for 8 consecutive quarters.
Reduced print production cost 22% by consolidating 14 packaging sizes down to 6.
Graphic Designer
Feb 2019 – Oct 2021
Atelier Rive, Grenoble, France
Delivered brand identities for 9 small businesses, 7 of which are still using the system unchanged.
Cut studio revision rounds from an average of 5 to 2 by presenting 3 defined directions instead of 8 variations.
Education
Diplôme, Graphic Design
Sep 2015 – Jun 2018
École Émile Cohl, Lyon, France, Mention bien
Skills
Tools: Figma, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects
Practice: Design systems, Typography, Print production, Packaging
Why it is written this way
The resume is not the portfolio
A two-column resume with a colour block and an icon set is the one place a designer's craft actively works against them: it is the document that has to survive a parser. The work lives at the link.
Design work has numbers too
Turnaround, asset volume, conversion on a redesigned page. Naming them separates a designer who ships from one who presents.
The system bullet is the senior one
Anyone can produce assets. Building the component library that let six other people produce them consistently is the thing a design lead is hiring for.
Shapes to fill in
Each blank is yours to complete. These are the same scaffolds the builder offers for this occupation — none of them says anything until you fill it in, which is what keeps them useful rather than a lie somebody else wrote.
Shipped something
- Shipped ___, used by ___
- Built ___ that ___, replacing ___
- Launched ___ in ___, ___ ahead of ___
- Delivered ___ across ___ with ___
Improved quality or reliability
- Cut ___ defects from ___ to ___ by ___
- Raised ___ from ___ to ___ over ___
- Eliminated ___, ending ___ that had cost ___
- Introduced ___, cutting ___ incidents by ___%
Led people or a programme
- Led ___ people through ___, delivering ___
- Hired and trained ___, of whom ___
- Coordinated ___ across ___ teams to ___
- Mentored ___, ___ of whom ___
Also called
Ad Designer (Advertising Designer) · Ad Layout Worker (Advertising Layout Worker) · Artist · Brand Designer · Catalogue Illustrator · Commercial Artist · Concept Artist · Creative Designer · Designer · Digital Artist
From the O*NET occupation database. Worth checking which of these a posting uses, because that is the wording its keyword search will be built on.
What a parser reads from this resume
This is the actual plain-text output for the document above — the same text an applicant tracking system extracts, and the same text this app hands you when you download the .txt. Nothing is lost between the page and the parser, which is the whole argument for a single column of real text.
Ines Delacroix ines.delacroix@example.com | +33 4 55 50 01 22 | Lyon, France SUMMARY Brand and product designer working across print and digital for consumer retail. Most recently built a component library that cut campaign asset turnaround from 6 days to 2. EXPERIENCE Senior Graphic Designer | Nov 2021 - Present Maison Verrier, Lyon, France - Cut campaign asset turnaround from 6 days to 2 by building a 40-component library the whole team works from. - Redesigned the product page template, raising add-to-basket rate from 3.1% to 4.4% across 900 listings. - Produced 3 seasonal campaigns a year spanning 120 assets each, delivered on schedule for 8 consecutive quarters. - Reduced print production cost 22% by consolidating 14 packaging sizes down to 6. Graphic Designer | Feb 2019 - Oct 2021 Atelier Rive, Grenoble, France - Delivered brand identities for 9 small businesses, 7 of which are still using the system unchanged. - Cut studio revision rounds from an average of 5 to 2 by presenting 3 defined directions instead of 8 variations. EDUCATION Diplôme, Graphic Design | Sep 2015 - Jun 2018 École Émile Cohl, Lyon, France, Mention bien SKILLS Tools: Figma, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects Practice: Design systems, Typography, Print production, Packaging