Matthew Harvey
Kijkduinstraat 59-hs
Amsterdam
1055 XS
Tel: 020 486 6917
Mobile: 0681 469 050
email: [email protected]
Date of Birth:
16 July 1971
Experience:
Main functions
Senior Creative Artworker/Implementer (technical finishing of design work and preparing for output, over
19 years experience in Advertising, Branding, Corporate and Packaging),
Studio Manager/Traffic over 10 years experience as Production/Traffic Manager.
Photoshop Retoucher/Lithographer (creating print-ready work including photographic manipulation, fine
curve adjustments, Spot Plates etc.),
Visualiser (3D visualisation, Photoshop and Illustrator illlustration)
Much experience in running studios, artworking almost anything, creating workflows, writing scripts,
calibrating colour systems and controlling print-runs and proofer RIPs (EFI, Dicomed and Kodak).
Software/Main Skills
Graphical:
Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Quark expert.
Other Software: Cinema 4D (3D visualiser, animator), After Effects, Adobe Premier Pro, Freehand,
Fontographer, Acrobat, Word, Painter, Director, Nexus, Art-Pro and various others. Much experience of
Technical and web:
Troubleshooting Mac and Windows since 1988, Programmer in Pascal, BASIC and some C, Applescript,
Shell scripting, COFFEE and some Javascript, HTML. Some web experience.
OS: Apple OS from 7 to 10.6, some Linux. Windows 2000, XP, NT and 7.
Software: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Entourage, Flash, Dreamweaver, Novell Servers,
Mac and Windows Servers and backup systems, SSH, VPN, VNC.
offset, flexo, gravure print, lithography, large format printing, E6 film shooting.
Career Details:
Freelance (current)
Various Functions Froq Artwork (tot Nov 2009)
(1 year) Senior Artworker and Lithographer
Artworker and Lithographer for Froq. Very streamlined and process-heavy Artworking and DTP.
Also responsible for most lithography and retouching.
TBWA/Designers Company (2½ years, 2007-2008) Senior Artworker/DTP
Maintained Production Studio. A very Creative Role, Worked very closely with the design team and
Directors. Visualisation, Retouching, Artworking/DTP, 3D animation/stills including motion graphics and
video. Branding (instrumental in designing and rebranding TomTom’s new logo), 3D and retouching
animations and Pitch movies for clients such as Verkade, Klene, Quaker (Cruesli), TomTom, Heineken, Dr
Oetker, Alabastine, Heijmans and ING. Helped win an EFI for Klene repackaging.
Design Bridge Netherlands (2 years, 2005-2007) Senior DTP/Artwork
Visualisation, Heavyweight Artwork/DTP, High-end Retouching. Completed complex artworks, high end
visuals (sometimes utilising 3D software) and animations for clients such as SaraLee - AmbiPur, Unilever
- Cup-a-Soup, Friso, Dairy Lady, Johnny Walker, Freisland, Heineken, Grolsch. Helped win Best in Show
for Swinckels at Pentawards (made 3D prototypes and finished created 3D animation for pitch).
Enterprise IG (London)
(2004-2005) Senior Artworker and Visualiser.
High end artwork, visualisation and illustration. Packaging. Clients include: Mars (Starburst, Whiskas,
Pedigree Foods, Skittles), Andrex, Miller Beer and Sanex.
Freelance 1999 - 2004
(Mostly in London) Senior Artwork/DTP/Implementation:
The Brandworks (1½ years) Senior Artworker: Packaging - High Res Photoshop work, creative visualisation and artwork.
Clients include: Mars - 60 packaging range (Galaxy range, Harry Potter sweets), Edenvale, Natura.
Pineapple (4 months in Brussels) Senior DTP: Through the line implementation - hi res Photoshop work, packaging
and corporate brochure work.
Ogilvy Interactive (One year): Photoshop Designer: HTML, Flash and Photoshop implementation for the web environment.
Creating web pages in Photoshop, designing graphics and preparing for the coders. UK Blue Credit Card
site.
The Kitchen 3 Months-freelance Heavyweight Artwork: Catalogue work for Levi’s & illustrator work.
Hudson Wright Assoc.
Freelance (1 month) Senior DTP: Fashion brochure work, including: Pink, DAKS, & De Beers.
End of Freelance
Madark (1996-1999) Studio Manager & Heavyweight Artwork/DTP
The majority of work at Madark was Senior Implementation/Artwork from ROCQM and Rufus Leonard:
two large marketing companies based in EC1. I completed almost all of the creative work. ROCQM’s
work was quite varied including corporate brochure, POS, and a lot of Photoshop work. Rufus Leonard
was predominately Photoshop work for clients such as VISA and Yellow Pages. Responsible for making
the award-winning Yellow Pages Tube adverts work. Clients included: The Royal Ballet, Mazda, Kodak,
Acclaim, SAP, IBM, Island Records.
Photobition (1995-1996) Production Manager of the Pageant Department.
A very large exhibition and photographic company based in South London. Ran the department including
maintaining the machines, preparing large format output artwork and organising each days traffic. Was
promoted within the company to Photographic Retoucher helped with 5x4 or 10x8 transparency work
utilising Photoshop creating various transparencies for the photographic department mainly in the realm
of Airport Advertising.
Viewpoint
(1994-1995) Studio Manager and DTP. Client liaison, running of jobs to film/bromide, scanning transparencies and colour-correcting using a
newly developed high-end SCITEX flatbed, colour retouching montages and eventually took care of
all DTP jobs. Maintained all colour calibration of the studio and was responsible for all traffic and IT
purchasing. Received Mac Service Training.
Freelance 1993 - 1995
(1993-1994) Artworker/DTP
Worked on magazine ads, Tube posters, POS material and brochures. Corporate material such as slides,
reports, exhibition work and promotional brochures. Produced material relating to the music industry
such as record covers, CD covers, ads for music publications, T-shirts, programmes and posters.
Received training on ‘StudioStream’ technology and Crosfield scanners, planners and imagesetters.
Clients included: Watts & Partners, Leonard Cheshire foundation, Mobil and Shell, Turret Group, Jetstar.
Bands: The Orb, Dreadzone, Primal Scream, Capleton, Andy Weatherall.
Proteus Design Ltd (1989 - 1993) Studio Manager and Implementer
Initially employed as Slide creator utilising Dicomed/Crosfield proprietary vector/bitmap 24-bit systems
and Windows PCs. Worked the night shift as main Studio Manager and IT troubleshooter for one and a
half years. This included creating imagery, shooting slides, programming Slide Cameras, installing and
troubleshooting all the PCs and Dicomed workstations, client liaison, and essentially trafficking the entire
evening. Later was promoted to Manager of new PC and Mac Imaging department for 2½ years, creating
graphics, DTP, programming jobs, invoicing and account management. Clients included: British Airways,
Citibank, Burson-Marsteller and Coley Porter Bell.
Education:
Dick Sheppard School: 7 O’Levels; English Literature, English Language, Art, Science, Computer
Science, Mathematics, Physics
Kingsway College:
BTEC National Diploma Computer Science
Programming, IT, System Analysis, Maths
London College of Printing:
2 year Typography evening course
Layout, font design, kerning, font history
Details and interests:
I am a very enthusiastic and consistent worker, very fast and accurate with a great deal of knowledge and experience.
I live in Amsterdam with my partner, Lucy and 4 year old daughter, Maya. My interests include art, music, films, snowboarding, martial arts,
attempting to play the guitar and cooking. I currently have a passion for 3D art and animation.