Narinder Singh

Graphic Designer

Aug 2020 - Present • 5 yrs 11 mos

As a Senior Graphic Designer and Prepress Specialist at GPW Printing Press, I manage the critical transition between creative graphic concepts and flawless physical print production. Operating in this production-heavy environment, my daily responsibilities revolve around designing high-precision commercial layouts and ensuring absolute technical accuracy before jobs hit the press. I specialize in structuring executive business cards, heavy-duty commercial bill books, custom invoice books, receipt books, letterheads, and complex self-ink stamp layouts. A major part of my role involves managing advanced prepress operations. This includes strict color profile calibration (translating RGB digital art into perfect CMYK print-ready formats), setting accurate bleed margins, registration marks, and trim lines to eliminate cutting errors. I am highly proficient in handling modern digital and heavy offset printing machines' layout demands. I regularly conduct multi-language typesetting and composing in English, Punjabi, and Hindi, ensuring flawless typography and layout balance for diverse corporate and industrial sectors. Key Achievements & Project Highlights: * Successfully optimized the pre-flight and prepress verification workflow, which drastically reduced file-rejection rates and material wastage by over 20%. * Designed, formatted, and approved over 2,000+ custom commercial stationery projects for corporate clients, manufacturing units, and local retail brands with a zero-error record. * Developed an incredibly fast turnaround system for high-volume self-ink stamp layouts and commercial bill books, directly improving client satisfaction and retention rates for the press."

Graphic Designer

Jun 2018 - Jul 2020 • 2 yrs 1 mo

During my full-time tenure at Dhoonda Press, I served as a core Graphic Designer, handling end-to-end creative and structural layout setups for high-volume commercial printing orders. This role demanded deep versatility, a fast workflow, and an eye for clean, executive visual aesthetics. I was responsible for transforming rough customer concepts into highly polished corporate brochures, marketing posters, promotional flyers, multi-page booklets, and complete commercial stationery packages. Working closely with offset press technicians and production managers, I mastered the art of plate-making setups and understood how different paper stocks and GSM weights affect final color outputs. I routinely managed complex typography challenges, especially in regional and multilingual composing (English, Punjabi, and Hindi), ensuring that fonts, line spacing, and character alignment remained perfectly intact across various print materials. Key Achievements & Project Highlights: * Spearheaded the design and structural formatting of large-scale corporate publicity campaigns and promotional poster materials for prominent local businesses and industries. * Successfully managed tight, high-pressure deadlines during peak commercial seasons, consistently delivering 100% print-ready vector graphics without compromising layout quality. * Praised by management for exceptional vector recreation skills—manually converting low-resolution, blurry client logos into razor-sharp, high-resolution vector assets suitable for large-scale offset printing."

Graphic Designer

Apr 2012 - May 2018 • 6 yrs 1 mo

"I spent six foundational years as a full-time Graphic Designer at Jiya’s Creative World, where I built my extensive expertise in professional brand identity creation and commercial advertisement layouts. This role allowed me to work directly with clients from various business sectors, helping them develop their visual presence from scratch. My primary responsibilities included designing modern corporate logos, professional visiting cards, company letterheads and retail advertisements. This position is where I mastered my advanced, expert-level skills in industry-standard software like CorelDRAW, and Adobe Photoshop. I developed a sharp eye for clean, modern, and high-impact design styles—frequently utilizing powerful color schemes like red & black or premium black & gold to create sophisticated corporate looks. I learned how to balance creative design elements with technical constraints, ensuring that every layout looked stunning on a computer monitor and equally perfect when physically printed. Key Achievements & Project Highlights: *Dedicated 6 years of consistent, high-quality service, single-handedly helping over 500+ local businesses, startups, and commercial stores establish and launch their visual brand identities * Built an extensive digital library of reusable commercial stationery templates and vector assets, which significantly improved the design studio’s daily production speed. * Earned a reputation for exceptional client communication, translating complex, abstract customer ideas into precise, high-end graphic assets with a near 100% client satisfaction rate."