Graphic Designer resume example
Your portfolio shows your style; your resume should show your impact and reliability. Name the brands and formats you design for, the volume you deliver and results your work contributed to.
This is a fictional, illustrative example -- not a real person or a promised result. Replace every detail with your own.
Full example resume
Sample content, for illustration -- not a real person.
Graphic designer with 6 years of experience in brand and campaign design for consumer brands. Designed a packaging refresh credited with a 12% sales lift in its first season.
- •Designed a packaging refresh for 14 products, credited with a 12% sales lift in the first season.
- •Produce 80+ social, email and web assets a month within brand guidelines.
- •Built a Figma and InDesign template library that cut campaign production time by 40%.
- •Art-directed 6 product photo shoots with external photographers.
- •Created brand identities for 9 small businesses, from logo to signage.
- •Designed trade show booths and print collateral for 3 clients.
- •Prepared print-ready files for 200+ jobs with zero reprints due to file errors.
Summary: weak vs. improved
Creative graphic designer with an eye for detail and a passion for visual storytelling.
Graphic designer for consumer brands. Designed a packaging refresh credited with a 12% sales lift in its first season.
The portfolio shows your eye. The resume should show the business result of your design.
Skills to include
- ✓Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
- ✓Figma
- ✓Brand identity and typography
- ✓Layout for print and digital
- ✓Motion basics (After Effects)
- ✓Working to brand guidelines
Only list skills you actually have -- the AI review in the editor will flag a skill that doesn't appear anywhere else in your resume.
Bullet examples: weak vs. improved
Designed product packaging.
Designed a packaging refresh for 14 products, credited with a 12% sales lift in the first season.
Scope and a commercial result show design that sells.
Created social media graphics.
Produce 80+ social, email and web assets a month within brand guidelines.
Volume and consistency show you are dependable under a real workload.
Made design templates.
Built a template library that cut campaign production time by 40%.
Time saved shows you improve how the team works, not just what it looks like.
How this changes by experience level
Lead with a strong portfolio link and 2–3 projects with clients or real briefs.
Created brand identities for 9 small businesses, from logo to signage.
Show volume, brands and a result your work contributed to, like the full example above.
See the full example above.
Show creative direction, teams and campaign-level outcomes.
Led creative for a national campaign across TV, social and retail with a team of 4 designers.
Section order
- Contact and portfolio link
- Short summary
- Skills and tools
- Experience
- Selected work
- Education
Common mistakes to avoid
- !A heavily designed resume that applicant tracking systems cannot read
- !No portfolio link
- !Listing software without showing output
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