Helka H.Hi! My name is Helka, and I'm a graphic designer living in Finland.
Drawing has been my passion since elementary school and on my freetime I enjoy creating different illustrations either with digital or traditional media. I have been working as graphic designer for a few years now in different companies and also as a freelancer. It brings me a lot of joy when I can help others using my creative skills and creating different artwork materials and illustrations! |
Work experience:
- 11/2021-> : Graphic designer at Airam.
- 03/2021-> : Graphic designer/Illustrator at EM Music & Entertainment Oy (freelance).
- 2018-2021 : Marketing assistant/graphic designer at Orthex.
- 2017: Graphic designer internship at Semio advertising agency (Tampere).
- 2014-2022: Part of the core organizer team of anime and cosplay convention Hypecon (Hyvinkää).
- 2014-2015: Club leader in Hyvinkää. Club meetings were twice a week, and the club members were 10-17 years old.
- 2014: Practical training in Hyvinkää's Visual Art School for Children. I was assisting the teachers and also hold classes by myself for the students.
- 2008-2013: I was a leader of 4H-club in Orivesi for several years. In our club I taught the 9-13 year old children to draw comics using japanese manga-style.
Education:
- 2019: Graduated as graphic designer from XAMK, Kouvola.
- 2017-2018: Exchange studies at Southampton Solent University, UK (6 months).
- 2015: Graduated as a visual artisan from Hyria art school, Hyvinkää.
- 2013: Graduated from Upper Secondary School of Orivesi.
Customer commissions:
- 2021: Created the first official logo for EM Music & Entertainment Oy
- 2019: As a thesis work for my XAMK studies, I created sustainability report summary and information graphics for GastroMax™ product packages at Orthex.
- 2018-2020 & 2022: I drew Finnish cosplay convention Hypecon's mascot Rieku for business cards and T-shirts, and made the layout+cover for Hypecon's program leaflets.
- 2014-2017: I drew Finnish cosplay convention Hypecon's mascot Rieku for business cards and T-shirts, and illustrated the cover of Hypecon's program leaflets.
- 2015: As my diploma work in Hyria art school, I created a mascot for Hyria. Mascot is used on school's website in a popup livechat box.
- 2013 & 2014: Daycare center Kädenjälki asked me to paint two big wall paintings. I did the first painting on summer 2013 and second next summer 2014.