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Work History
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Erin Maureen McCarthy

Summary

Dynamic freelance designer with proven skills in Adobe Creative Suite and visual communication. Committed to delivering high-quality designs through effective client collaboration and meticulous attention to detail.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Freelance Designer

Creative Circle & Personal Freelance
04.2025 - Current
  • Designs visual content for client projects using Adobe Creative Suite to design social media posts, posters and other promotional materials for businesses and events.
  • Executes photo editing and manipulation tasks to enhance visual content.
  • Utilizes typography, color, and layout to enhance visual communication and message clarity.
  • Collaborates and brainstorms with clients to understand design needs and preferences, including selecting colors, images, text styles, layouts, and overall functionality for each project.
  • Studies photographs and other graphics to plan materials, products, or services.
  • Researches design, industry, and technological trends to inform creative decisions and stay current.
  • Determines size and layout of copy material and selected styles and size of fonts.
  • Presents design concepts to clients for feedback, and implements client revisions to enhance quality and visual appeal.
  • Reviews final layouts, making improvements and suggestions as needed, and ensuring final deliverables met project requirements.
  • Manages multiple design projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to brand standards.

Graphic Designer & Art Director

McClatchy
10.2018 - 04.2025
  • Utilized skills and knowledge with Adobe Creative Suite to design layouts for digital and printed media for McClatchy
  • Used Photoshop and photo content research skills for social media banners for First for Women and Woman's World and ensured each banner was updated monthly.
  • Collaborated with other Art Directors, Designers, and Copy Editors to pitch editorial and design content ideas and conducted research for the First For Women, Woman's World, Celebrate! with Woman's World, Woman's World Crafts, Woman's World Christian Crafts, Dot Dot Dot, Ideas & Discoveries, and Animal Heroes and implement any design ideas.
  • Selected and edited Layouts, Color, and Images as Art Director for Ideas & Discoveries, Woman’s World Crafts, Woman's World Specials Animal Heroes, & Woman’s World Christian Crafts magazines.
  • Wrote editorial book reviews for Costanza Casati’s Clytemnestra, India Holton’s The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels, Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne and Atalanta, and Megan Barnard’s The Winter Goddess for the Reading Inspiration section of First for Women. Additional titles available upon request.

Freelance Designer

Creative Circle & Personal Freelance
05.2017 - 10.2018
  • Designed layouts & conducted photo & content
    research for First for Women & Woman’s World.
  • Designed & oversaw the production & publication
    of monthly Douglas Elliman marketing reports.
  • Designed catalogue layouts and completed Photoshop &
    production work for Really Good Stuff & Two’s Company
  • Designed menus, t-shirts, signage, social media ads & mailers.
    Conducted marketing research and oversaw customer service and social media engagement for Sugar & Olives.
  • Designed brochures, mailers, & web content for
    The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
  • Designed TV displays, social media content, brochures and
    mailers as well as photography work for Sky Zone Norwalk and Sky Zone Bethel
  • ∙Created concept art & press releases for Toymail by making vectors in Adobe Illustrator.

Education

BFA Graphic Design -

Keene State College
Keene, NH
05-2015

Skills

  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Visual communication
  • Photo editing
  • Typography
  • Project management
  • Client collaboration
  • Attention to detail
  • Creative problem solving
  • Time management
  • Feedback incorporation
  • Presentation design
  • Analytical skills
  • Design research
  • Photography
  • Illustration
  • Layout design
  • Multi-tasking
  • Art direction

Languages

English
Professional
French
Limited
German
Limited

Affiliations

  • Currently Drafting Assets to use on button & enamel pins for a future personal web shop
  • Working in the outline stage for a dark urban fantasy book series
  • Playing various turn-based RPGs
  • Petsitting and caregiving for animals
  • Always designing bags and deskspace with pins, acrylic standees, and figurines to bring happiness to my home and workspaces
  • Frequently going to the gym or hiking- the best ideas come with a clear head!

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Freelance Designer

Creative Circle & Personal Freelance
04.2025 - Current

Graphic Designer & Art Director

McClatchy
10.2018 - 04.2025

Freelance Designer

Creative Circle & Personal Freelance
05.2017 - 10.2018

BFA Graphic Design -

Keene State College

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