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Rowan Vale

Rowan Vale

Designer and filmmaker

Summary

Independent designer with twelve years of practice across brand identity, editorial design and short documentary. Comfortable owning a project from first sketch to final export, and equally happy as one part of a larger team.

Experience

  1. Founder · Vale Studio

    – present

    • Identity, editorial and film work for over a hundred small clients.
    • Built and maintain an open pattern library used for client websites.
    • Directed nine short documentaries, two shown at regional festivals.
  2. Designer · Harbourline Cinema

    –

    • Designed posters and trailers for a three-screen independent cinema.
    • Introduced a reusable poster grid that halved production time.

Education

  1. BA Graphic Communication · Westbridge School of Art

    –

    • Final project: a type family drawn from tide-table typography.

Skills

Design
Identity systems, typography, editorial layout, art direction
Film
Directing, editing, colour, title design
Web
HTML, CSS, accessible front-end, design tokens
Languages
English, Portuguese, conversational Spanish