Category: Desktop publishing designer

Freelance Artworker for print design based in Brighton Sussex

In-House or remote Print Design Assistant

Sarahjane has advanced skills in Adobe InDesign. She will keep your design accurate, consistent and within brand. Edit and retouch images using Photoshop. Recreate icons and logos using Illustrator. Create print ready artwork and interactive Adobe PDF.

Contact Sarahjane using the email form to discuss any potential project you may have.

Platform Group, Freelance Artworker Sarahjane Jackson

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A Freelance Artworker is the perfect assistant to a Creative Print Designer

Technical InDesign for perfect print design layout

This Artworker enjoys the technical pre setup, adding the foundations of an InDesign document. Print ready, master pages, folios, adding text to brand, styles for TOC and images, table, footnotes, index and icons. Print ready for the designer to add the creative magic. By adding the technical bits first this leaves time for those last minute amends before print. The perfect assistant to the creative designer.

Please contact Sarahjane using the email form for any potential project.

Polishing-up PowerPoint presentations Freelance Artworker in Brighton

Freelance Artworker formatting your Microsoft documents for presentation or print

Sarahjane has been helping businesses to brand and format their presentations to look more professional for years. A layout in PowerPoint can be edited by anyone, an Artworker can tidy and make your presentation look consistent with design branding or designer’s artwork. Presentations can also be non editable, made in InDesign and using as a Acrobat PDF.

PowerPoint and Word Artworker for Chapman Freeborn

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Print and design Freelance Artworker in Brighton

Freelance Artworker, InDesigner, Brighton, Sarahjane Jackson
Freelance Artworker, InDesigner, Brighton, Sarahjane Jackson

Freelance InDesigner available for hire Brighton

Hire Sarahjane by the hour for any print and design Adobe InDesign artworking in Brighton East Sussex. She is a very flexible freelancer, highly organised and can be called on at short notice or booked in advanced. Sarahjane is only 20 minutes walk from the centre of town. She also works remotely using the latest Adobe Creative Cloud. See Sarahjane’s skills on her Artworker page.

“I love the jobs Designers hate… e.g. long and repetitive!”

says Sarahjane Jackson

Please contact me using the email form an immediate response.

Door 22, Freelance Artworker Sarahjane Jackson

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Excel tables quickly branded in InDesign by Freelance Artworker in Brighton

This Artworker loves tables designers hate

Microsoft Excel is limited for creativity and design but InDesign can create company branded tables from your Excel tables. By importing and setting up table styles Sarahjane can quickly change many tables to look the consistent e.g. the same colour and fonts. They can also flow neatly from page to page. Tables are a fantastic way to layout lots of data neatly.

RSG Consulting Freelance Artworker, Brighton

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Hotel desktop publishing artwork layout

An Artworker is a desktop publisher (DTP)

From hotels, golf courses, Spa’s to restaurants requiring literature to be artworked for print or web. Designers in Brighton agencies create beautiful branding, a company’s bespoke style and look. 

Sometimes they require an Artworker to help during these busy times, to recreate artwork in all shapes and sizes. This is the stuff designers don’t have time for and it needs an well organised Artworkers full attention.

The Ideas House, Freelance Artworker is Sarahjane Jackson

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Remote Freelance Artworker in Brighton

Stock Catalogue created by Artworker

Home office Adobe InDesign and Photoshop

Working remotely I was asked to design a staff stock catalogue using existing website branding (colours, logo and fonts). A simple and quick layout of 26 pages. This lead to me creating two more catalogues, two order forms and a stock leaflet. Using the latest Adobe InDesign to create the layout and PDF’s for amends and comments.

Display Centre Artworker

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Graphic Designer Assistant is an Freelance Artworker

Graphic Design Assistant Artworker
Wired Sussex Job Fair Paper, Artworker by Sarahjane Jackson, Brighton

Populate 8 printed page local newspaper

Sarahjane used Brian previous artwork and recreated the new updated Wired Sussex Job Fair paper. Working in-house in the Brighton studio with the latest InDesign. Copy sent approved and added to layout. Creating a new map from scratch using Illustrator, keeping everything print ready for the tight deadline.

Brian Kidd Graphic Designer, Artworker

Creating a branded Microsoft Word template

Microsoft Word can be tamed!

I enjoy a challenge and Fruit asked if I would create Microsoft Word templates for University of Cambridge to help standardise their paperwork. The designer had created the rebrand and I copied this style into Microsoft Word. Using headers, footers and styles to create a variety of templates.

Microsoft Word styles are easy to use once you know how. I am also available to teach.

Fruit Design Artworker

Assistant to other Artworker’s, Freelancers working together in Sussex

Assistant to other Artworker's, Freelancers working together in Sussex
Assistant to other Artworker’s

Freelance Artworker assisting other Freelance Designers

Sarahjane is very happy helping out other fellow freelancers, Designers and Artworkers, in-house or remotely. Urgent projects with tight deadlines can crop up unexpectedly and or all at once. A picture heavy layout, updated with many different languages. Communication is key to have the correct text on the correct page.

Contact Sarahjane using the email form to discuss any potential project you may have.

Justin Ross Artworker working for Babel

Resource booklet recreate and rebrand artwork

Recreate print ready artwork

Whether it is a an old quark file, PDF, printed version or even just from a photo. I can recreate and rebrand your artwork ready for printing.

Future amends are made quickly using PDF comments / sticky note and they are very easy to do.

Catalogue design layout by Freelance Artworker in Brighton

Catalogue design layout Freelance Artworker in Brighton
Catalogue design layout Freelance Artworker in Brighton

Sarahjane Jackson Freelancer InDesigner Brighton

This Artworker enjoys working alongside Senior Designers, to create consistent layouts and to a very tight deadline. With a basic InDsign template, text and images sourced and artwork to fit these catalogue pages.

Sarahjane Jackson Artworking for DJH Advertising Artworker

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Quark layout converted into a InDesign layout

A InDesign files can be made from Quark on the internet

Converting Quark to InDesign on the internet will give you the basic’s. Colours, images and lots and lots of text boxes. The layout will still require artworking and proofing. The file can be polished, as an Artworker I would still start a layout from scratch as you don’t know what nasties lie within. Giving you a clean and tidy file for print.

Data tables imported from Microsoft Word to Adobe InDesign by Freelance Artworker

InDesign data tables in a A5 ring binder document
InDesign data tables in a A5 ring binder document

Table design is quick when you know how

Table design is neat and tidy and can be achieved with Adobe InDesign styles for a consistent look and feel. A colour of font change can be made with one click instead of multi page amends. Using InDesign, the tables flow nicely from page to page the same a Microsoft Word and can be easily imported. There is more control in InDesign to Word and will look more professional.

UK Power Networks Artworker at Image Data Group

Point of sale shop posters ready for print by Freelance Artworker Brighton

Point of sale shop posters print ready artwork by Freelance Artworker Sarahjane Jackson
Point of sale shop posters print ready artwork by Freelance Artworker Sarahjane Jackson

Quick and organised InDesign Artworker

It is great to work at a printers to see where the print ready artwork goes. Creating posters from huge spreadsheets, quickly collating images, prices and T&Cs. Working with great images ready for printing on these POS poster. Branding is simple, using styles for consistency.

BB Printing, Freelance Artworker, Sarahjane Jackson

Strict design brand guidelines for product learning guides

Keeping the layout to very strict brand guidelines

Sarahjane rebranded hundreds of product learning guides leaflets into new templates for John Lewis Partnership, one for each item they sell. They have there own in-house team but required someone who could follow strict guidelines and steam through the rebrand.  Sarahjane used her advanced skills in InDesign to keep the brand consistent Please see Sarahjane’s references from Image Data Group.

John Lewis Partnership, Freelance Artworker at Image Data Group

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Text heavy craft manuals InDesign layout

Using Designer corporate branding and guidelines

Sarahjane took on the mammoth text heavy layout project in InDesign of EDF’s craft manuals. Eight manuals in total with around 600 pages long each. The original 1970’s manuals where scanned into word files then Sarahjane imported them into InDesign. Using styles she made from the corporate branding and guidelines to create a consistent document. This also links to automated contents pages for each section. Please see Sarahjane’s references.

Image Data Group, Freelance Artworker, Sarahjane Jackson

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What is an Artworker?

An Artworker is the designer’s mechanic

A car designer will never build or maintain a car, the mechanic does.

A professional Artworker uses InDesign to its full potential (e.g. master pages, styles, keyboard shortcuts, TOC’s etc.). Creating a clean and tidy print ready layout and will be quicker than a designer. This is excellent for large page documents / catalogues / brochures / reports and tenders, keeping consistencies and to corporate branding. An Artworker will also predict future amends and create the layout accordingly. We also have to be highly organised with studio files e.g. images, word files, amends and each office has its own filing structure. This also helps other colleagues pick up a project quickly.

Artworker’s enables the designer do what they are good at – DESIGNING!