Grace Thomas

An enthusiastic and creative graphic designer with a heart for making art and bringing beauty out of dust. I love expressing emotion and ideas through art and design.

I worked as a Graphic Design Intern at 3 companies in India (Work-From-Home) and in 1 Graphic Design Training Program in Germany (Online)

Company 1-ACTF:
Aided the creative director in ideating and building short video clips for social media.
The process was the same with each video and was essentially to create vectors using illustrator and build the final animation with After Effects.
In addition, I was responsible for editing recorded videos using Premiere Pro.

Company 2-SAASPECT:
Assisted the Lead Graphic Designer and clarified client requests to build better graphics.
Responsible for building client-specific vectors from scratch using Illustrator. 
Designed Social Media posts as well as animations using Illustrator and After effects respectively.
Furthermore, I learnt how to use isometric illustrations and designed them per clients' demands.

Company 3-LABDOX:
Assisted the Graphic Design Supervisor and collaborated with the content and marketing teams to build relevant SMC.
Designed multiple graphics, including: brochures, carousels, certificate templates, mock-ups, logos and social media banners (for various platforms) using a mix of Illustrator, Photoshop and Canva. 
Furthermore, was responsible for creating short video clips using Powtoon and Premiere Pro.

BRAINNEST:
Learnt in more depth how to use shape & colour psychology to make better and more informed design choices.
Further sharpened compositional understanding and font choice selection by working on varied client prompts.
Worked with a diverse team to build an end-to-end design proposal for a client in the last week.

MA, Creative Media Practice, UWS (2019-2022)
International School of Creative Arts (ISCA), Kochi
University of West Scotland

Waljat College of Applied Sciences (WCAS), Oman, Birla Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA)
2015 - 2019
Grade: 9.58

Indian School Al Ghubra
Higher Secondary School Certificate, Commerce Stream.
2000 - 2015