James Riordan - Waters

I’m a creative, inventive, innovative and future-thinking designer with a prolific and original Graphic Design portfolio that exhibits my skills, experience, and thought processes with design. I am seeking employment in Graphic Design in order to flourish and put my skills into practice. My interests include writing, essays, music composition, aestheticism and philosophy.. My experience includes design for an American start-up, design and publication of a quarterly art and literature magazine, album cover design, logo design, board game design, and cover design for books I have written.

3 Years Experience in Adobe Express

2 Years Experience in Photoshop

2 Years of Experience with Sony Vegas Pro

3 Years of Experience in Lumafusion

(BA) degree in Sociology

Literary Journalist, NFT Project Planner, Designer  – PageDAO – January to December 2021 

• Contacted online by the CEO of a start-up e-book NFT publishing company, initially to interview artists in the upcoming space
• Responsibilities were expanded to copywriting, scriptwriting, video editing, graphic design, project planning and doing a theatrical performance for a marketing campaign

Creator/Producer of MAJIZINE – Quarterly issue - December 2022 to Present

• Article writing, copywriting, graphic design, formatting and editing the magazine, featuring subject such as mysticism, mental health & society (request to preview)

Project Director - Lean Kitchen, Guildhall Street, Folkestone - Summer 2018

• Organising, surveying, problem-solving - providing spontaneous and timely contributions of creative ideas and solutions and budgeting

• Basic Nurse Training
• (BA) Hons in Sociology at University of Kent for 4 years (with a Year in Tampere, Finland) - 2:1 - Graduated 2023. My dissertation was a study on the expectations of social media and private feelings of those expectations, and was outlined as one of the top performing ones of the year, with an invitation from the board to do a Masters, which I declined.
• A Levels in Sociology (A), Film (B), Media (B)