Evelyn is a vastly skilled and adept designer with whom I have worked for two years at St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill as her line manager.
Evelyn ably navigates the myriad relationships and aesthetic desires of stakeholders in the school and affiliated community. She produces high quality design solutions and creative works across print, digital, out of home, large format and social media. I’ve no reservations about her quality of, and ability to deliver, exceptional work.
Personally, I have found Evelyn to be greatly supportive of me in my position. Her awareness of and insight to the College brand has assisted in my holistic operational management of the Marketing and Communications team.
Sebastian Wattam – Marketing and Communications Manager, St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill
Evelyn displays great humility, expertise and care in all that she does in the graphic and digital design space. Her presence at Joeys over the past 5 years has been critical to the development of outstanding bespoke design materials for internal and external stakeholders. It has been in my role as Director of Teaching and Learning where I have worked most closely with Evelyn. Her outstanding work, while vast, is exemplified by the exceptional Off-Site Learning Plan produced across 2020 and 2021; both were lauded within our learning community and by educators from other schools. Evelyn’s patience and expertise in collaborating on this important, COVID led, project was evident throughout the process. Furthermore, the STRIVE learning materials, which light up classrooms, presentations and online resources are both visually engaging and highly informative. I have many other similar examples I could use to illustrate her professionalism! Most importantly, it has been a pleasure to work with Evelyn and, while a significant loss to the College, she will be a wonderful asset in her next role at the Fred Hollows Foundation and beyond
Matt Bookallil, former Director of Teaching and Learning, St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill
From the get go Evelyn worked close to the clients brief and the style of our titles to create beautiful advertorials that looked luxurious and high quality. Evelyn sourced imagery for the advertorials, as the client didn’t have any to supply, the imagery on the advertorials took the page to the next level, making the page look and feel native to marie claire which in turn helped increase the level of engagement with the advertisement. There was the perfect balance of information to imagery on the page, Evelyn’s eye for detail with design and layouts added to the success of the campaign. The client was very happy with every page that was put forward for approval, so much so that everything was approved instantly with only minor changes – a testament to Evelyn’s talent.”
philosophy National Awareness Campaign
Elizabeth Kane, former Campaign Project Manager, Pacific Magazines
Evelyn was the designer of this project, and fulfilled this with the upmost attention to detail and sophisticated flair. The look and feel of the gatefold aesthetic was workshopped with both the client, the marie claire editorial team and Evelyn herself. Evelyn gave her recommendations on what images, colours, layout and fonts would be beneficial to use, to ensure we delivered Lexus with an amazing advertisement that projected a sleek, innovative and high fashion feel, as well as ensuring to keep within the marie claire brand and style guidelines. Throughout the process were production obstacles arose as far as how this would logistically sit amongst the editorial pages, and also logistics of how this would open (right or left), Evelyn provided great advice and problem solving skills to the client and ensured a product was produced that the client was happy with – always keeping with our campaign timeline and adhering to every deadline. Evelyn is such a talented designer with a very unique eye and style. She is an absolute pleasure to work with, and I would highly recommend her to work with any luxury clients that may come her way!
Lexus Australia – Principal Sponsor of the 2017 Prix de marie claire Awards
Bianca Decandia, former Campaign Project Manager, Pacific Magazines
Evelyn was the art director across both the head & shoulders and Venus campaigns. As the creative lead across both campaigns, Evelyn’s main responsibility was to liaise with a number of different stakeholders in the business – including all editorial teams, brand teams, project management team, media agency and P&G client. Having to often adhere to urgent material deadlines, Evelyn was able to prioritise and ensure all P&G activity ran smoothly and as planned. Evelyn’s calm and positive demeanour was something not only noticed by the internal team at Pacific but from the client itself. Overall, Evelyn was a pleasure to work with, always with a smile on her face!
head & shoulders and Venus campaigns
Yianni Vivliotis, former Campaign Project Manager, Pacific Magazines
I have worked alongside Evelyn for roughly eight years where I have been an editor at two companies in which she has been a senior graphic designer and then art director. I have always found Evelyn to be a gifted designer who has a very professional approach to her work. She’s creative, consistent, has a sharp eye for detail, listens to the brief and client’s needs and does it all with a smile. She’s cool under pressure and is respectful of deadlines. She balances with ease the needs of her editorial peers as well as those of advertisers. She takes constructive criticism and directional change in her stride. She takes great pride in her work, is a team player and effective manager of more junior design staff or freelancers. I recommend Evelyn for your design needs, without any hesitation.
Katrina Holden – former managing editor, Drinks Trade; former editor National Liquor News
Working with Evelyn was very beneficial, her knowledge, guidance and patience instilled in me skills that helped me advance in graphic design.
Evelyn made an excellent creative director, she is extremely organised. Her hard work and dedication was admirable. Her friendly nature made her easy to communicate with, making the work place an enjoyable learning experience.
She always had great pride in her work and set high standards, her finished work always impeccable.
Evelyn was a great leader and a great role model.
Helen Abdallah – former production assistant/mac operator, NPG
Evelyn is an extremely talented art director who brings copy to life using her own brand of skill and patience. Her ability to understand and implement even the most intricate of briefs has ensured client satisfaction time and time again, making working with her on various editorial projects for six years an absolute pleasure. I would not hesitate in recommending her work to anyone seeking a professional, friendly art director who not only gets the job done, but enjoys it too!
Sarah Davey – former editor Premier magazine, Hip Media
Evelyn was employed for 11 months as a senior designer at the Independent Liquor Group whilst I was Studio manager. Having worked with over 30 designers in the past 10 years, I understand that it is rare to find a designer with all of the professional qualities that Evelyn possess. Apart from her enormous talent and ability to interpret a brief with maximum creative flare, she is unfailingly amicable, is able to take criticism of her work and use it constructively, follows art direction and works well under the extreme pressure we were often faced with in a busy studio. She has a thorough understanding of processes and an ability to take on and learn new tasks easily.
Evelyn undertook a number of project management roles during her time at ILG and she was able to handle them with ease, working well with other designers, senior management and the ILG Board of Directors.
Her eye for detail, her commitment to design and her expertise with industry software made Evelyn a star in our team, I would not hesitate to recommend her for a senior design or management position.
Sharon Brien – former studio manager, ILG
I have worked together with Evelyn across a wide range of publications where she has been the Art Director, and I have the utmost respect for her both professionally and personally. Her bubbly personality shines through to her work and she will do everything in her power to make sure every detail is complete to the highest quality. Her dedication to her work is unlike anyone I have ever worked with, as she will put the extra time in to ensure the project is complete within deadlines. I have absolutely no qualms about recommending Evelyn for any Art Director role, as she can bring her unique personal touch to the design process.
Eoghan Hennessy – former Account manager, Hip Media
I have known Evelyn in two working capacities over the past five years. The first as her client and the second as her colleague. In both, Evelyn has always proved herself to be consistent, hardworking, courteous, resilient and always creative. Evelyn’s professionalism is well known to all that have the pleasure to work with her. She remains calm under fire and seems to always present a fresh approach no matter how difficult the brief.
Hope McMurdy – former Services Manager, the drinks association
Evelyn has worked on our publications drinks trade, drinks guide and drinks year book , on behalf of Hip Media, since inception back in 2007. She has been key in setting the style for our very successful publications.
Evelyn has a calm and pleasant nature, which has made her a pleasure for my team to work with.
She is cool under pressure, hard working, courteous and passionate about her work.
Evelyn is well respected in our office, any company would be lucky to have her in their team.
Sandra Przibilla – former CEO, the drinks association
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