This is my CV
Sofia Jahn.
Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Passionate about storytelling, illustration, social media content creation, and graphic designing for the music industry
Italian, raised in Latin America, who recently decided to move to London and experience what happens outside the box. Excited and eager to learn from talented people and to embrace new professional and personal challenges.
Experience:
March 2022- currently - Working as a Junior Graphic Designer for Dock and Bay Design Department (Based in London).
2021- Audio Network Freelancing. Had the opportunity to work as a graphic designer working on different album art covers for a well known music distributor/Music Library in London.
2018- currently - Freelancer: book illustrator, social media content creator, graphic designer and stop motion producer
2018 to 2019 Grupo Diseño República (Dominican Republic): Junior Illustrator and animator in Social Media department. Creating social media posts and stop motion production for big brands (Nestlé, The Macallan, KitKat, Maggi, etc).
2018 - Serravalle Studio: Stop Motion course teacher. Giving a small stop motion basics course to teenagers and young adults.
2018 - Nomad SDQ: Graphic Design Internship. Creating social media posts for local brands (Kopca, Maka drops, Mujer y Salud, Pretty busy Club).
2017 - Grupo Diseño República: Internship. I had the opportunity to assist in the studio. Learning about photoshoot productions, art direction, and photography.
2017 - Little Monsters Summer Camp: Art and craft teacher. Giving art and craft classes. I was in charge of groups of 10 children ( from 3 to 14 years old) during art activities and clay classes. I had the responsibility to set up and preparation of each activity.
Hightlights
2021 - Todo Lo Que Aprendí: My own children’s book co-written with Thony Da Silva and Andrew Duncan.
2021 - REC MAGAZINE: Article interview feature. “Living in the clouds” by Jennifer Marrugo
2020 - Editorial Grupo SM (Dominicana): One of two winners for the illustrator competition “1’ CONCURSO SM de ILUSTRACIÓN EDITORIAL”
2020 - El Mayor De Mis Tesoros, children’s book illustrations (written by Pilar Cifuentes and Maria Milagros Suarez)
2018 - CHAVÓN, La escuela de diseño (Dominican Republic): graduated in fine arts with honors
2018 - CHAVÓN, La escuela de diseño (Dominican Republic) collective art exposition
Brands
Working in Grupo Diseño Repúbilica y Nomad SDQ I had the opportunity to work with big brands like:
-The Macallan
-Kit-Kat (Nestle)
-Café Dolce Gusto (Nestle)
-La Lechera (Nestle)
-Carnation (Nestle)
-Fitness (Nestle)
-Cerelac (Nestle)
-NAN (Nestle)
-Andrew Duncan Music
Features
Interviews, magazine and newspapers publications around the world.
2021 - ALETEIA MAGAZINE, Digital Spanish Magazine with more than 100k followers on social media: published an article talking about my recent book project “el mayor de mis tesoros” where I had the opportunity to work as an illustrator for this beautiful children’s activity book written by Pilar Cifuentes and Maria Milagros Suarez encouraging people to support our crowdfunding.
2021 - QMAYOR MAGAZINE, Digital Spanish Magazine: published an article talking about my recent book project “el mayor de mis tesoros” where I had the opportunity to work as an illustrator for this beautiful children’s activity book written by Pilar Cifuentes and Maria Milagros Suarez.
2021 - REC MAGAZINE, Digital Peruvian Magazine: published illustration as part of article
2021 - @Buho_gram, Digital Spanish Magazine: published a digital article called “Wonders of the sky” about my recent illustration project “living in the clouds”
2020 - Diario Libre, newspaper at Dominican Republic: published illustration as part of article.
Education:
2021(currently): Art Direction Masters Degree- Trazos (Madrid)
2021: Project Management Private Course Imparted by Elena Del Conte
2021: Profitable Artist Plan - Online Course imparted by Marisa Anne Cummings
2020: Grupo SM (Dominican Republic): Editorial illustration for educational projects
2020: Online Course at Domestika, of Instagram strategies for brand development
2016-2018: CHAVÓN - La escuela de diseño (Dominican Republic): Fine Arts and Illustration degree
2016: CHAVÓN - La escuela de diseño (Dominican Republic): Advanced Drawing Anatomy course
2015: CHAVÓN - La escuela de diseño (Dominican Republic): Basic tools for Graphic design in advertising