Gizem U

Senior Creative Designer at Diam International

Retail ABC • Temps plein

May 2016 - Jul 2024 • 8 yrs 2 mos

I was employed in Diam Group, Istanbul, as Creative Designer (06/2016 - 12/2022) and Senior Creative Designer (12/2022 - 07/2024). In this position, my job description included designing retail display units, in-store furniture and shop in shops, according to client’s need, market expectations and production restrictions, creating all the presentation materials and renders for communicating with clients and technical designers. I was working reciprocally with Key Account Managers and Technical Designers in my daily jobs. I was responsible for designing gondolas and various retail displays, animation areas for Sephora; Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Too Faced, Rare Beauty, Clinique, Givenchy, Loreal Group and on. Having been a creative designer in Diam Group, a French company group with more than 20 branches around the world, I had the chance to work with design teams in France, the United States, the United Kingdom and China. In 2018, I participated in a project for Maybelline NY in the UK. I spent more than 1 month in Leicester, UK to work closely with UK design team to create new line of retail display units, creating prototypes and presenting it at a Worldwide meeting of Loreal Group in Paris. In 2020, I had worked on a project with the US and China design teams of Diam Group for Fenty Skin, which, then was a new brand in the market. I was chosen to work on this project from the Turkish design team. The purpose of the project was to create a common brand identity and design elements for the brand and apply it to our own region’s marketing needs which are different in the US, EMEA and Asia. I was responsible for designing the unit for EMEA. In 2019 & 2020, my designs for Fenty Beauty and KVD Beauty took place in Sephora Champs-Elysees store.