Is Sunniva Kalloway a real designer

No. She is invented for this page, and so are Harrowgate Studio and Petrichor Brand Works. The figures show a shape and describe nobody's career.

Should a designer's résumé be designed

It should be set well and it should still be one readable column. Editorial is one of the layouts not marked ATS-safe, which is a deliberate choice on this page and explained below. The portfolio is where the design argument is made.

What did the checker score it

100 out of 100. Nine action-led lines, five with measurable evidence, twelve lines of depth and 258 readable words. Editorial scores well because its structure is a single column with generous type, and the extraction is clean.

Where does the portfolio link go

In the contact row, as a plain address. The example carries it there so it survives extraction as text. A link buried in a graphic does not exist as far as any parser is concerned.

Do I need print production on the page

If you have it, yes. Press approvals, reprint charges and proofing rounds are the part of studio work a studio manager is actually worried about, and almost nobody writes them down.

Which design is this rendered in

Editorial, one of the 37 layouts. 21 of them are marked ATS-safe; Editorial is not, and the section below explains when that trade is reasonable.

Example · Design

A graphic designer résumé example, beside the portfolio it points at

One complete graphic designer résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13

— the résumé gets you looked up. the portfolio decides.

The graphic designer example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Editorial design: name, summary, the roles with their bullet lines, education and a skills row — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Editorial design. The picture was taken by pressing this page's own Use this example door and photographing what the editor rendered.

A designer's résumé has an awkward job. It has to be well made, because it will be judged as work, and it has to survive being read by software that ignores every decision in it. This example is written out in full so you can read the lines, then run through the tools here to see what comes back. The candidate is invented. Sunniva Kalloway does not exist, neither studio exists, and every figure was chosen to demonstrate a shape.

The example, in full

An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.

Sunniva Kalloway
Graphic Designer
Copenhagen, Denmark · [email protected] · +45 32 55 01 84

Summary
Graphic designer with seven years in packaging and identity. Works on systems that other people can use after the handover.

Experience

Senior Designer · Harrowgate Studio, Copenhagen · 2021 to present

Built the identity system for a food brand across 240 packaging lines and 3 languages.
Cut artwork turnaround from 9 days to 4 by writing a component library the studio still uses.
Art directed 14 photo shoots and delivered 1 800 assets to the client's own library.
Ran design reviews for 6 designers and 2 freelancers each week.
Wrote the 24-page brand guideline the client's own team now uses without the studio.

Designer · Petrichor Brand Works, Aarhus · 2018 to 2021

Designed 31 packaging ranges for retail clients, 9 of which went to national listing.
Rebuilt the studio's file structure and reduced repeat artwork errors by 38%.
Produced print-ready files for 5 markets with no reprint charged in 2 years.
Ran the studio's photography brief with 3 suppliers and reduced the cost of a shoot day by 24%.

Junior Designer · Petrichor Brand Works, Aarhus · 2016 to 2018

Prepared 400 artwork files a year to press specification.
Redrew 60 legacy logos as vectors for the archive.
Set up the colour proofing routine that cut press approvals from 3 rounds to 1.

Education
BA Visual Communication · Sundby Design School, Copenhagen · 2012 to 2016

Skills
brand identity, packaging artwork, typography, design systems, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Figma, print production, art direction, retouching

Languages
Danish · native · English · C1 · German · B1

Production figures are the part nobody writes

Twelve achievement lines, and the ones a studio manager will stop on are the unglamorous ones: artwork turnaround from nine days to four, repeat artwork errors down 38%, press approvals from three rounds to one, no reprint charged in two years. Those say the candidate can be left alone with a deadline and a printer.

Identity and art direction lines are there too, because they are the work. The example simply refuses to let them stand alone. A line that says "developed brand identities" tells a reader nothing they cannot assume from the job title; 240 packaging lines across three languages tells them the scale of the machine that was running.

The portfolio link belongs in the contact row

One line, plain text, beside the email address. That is the whole trick. A portfolio address set as a graphic, or hidden behind the word "here", disappears the moment the page is extracted into fields, and the address is the single most valuable string on a designer's résumé.

Conxfolio publishes a portfolio page of its own from the same material, which is covered in the guide on linking a portfolio. Whatever you use, the rule is the same: an address a person can read aloud and a parser can store.

Why this one is not on an ATS-safe design

Of the 37 designs here, 21 are marked ATS-safe. Editorial is not one of them, and it was still the right choice for this page. The mark is about extraction risk in a layout, and a designer applying to a studio is usually sending a PDF to a human being who opens it, looks at it, and forms an opinion in two seconds.

The trade only works if you know you are making it. For a large employer with an application portal, use one of the ATS-safe layouts and put the design argument in the portfolio. For a studio of nine people, send the page you would be happy to have on the wall.

What the reading found

The door on this page hands the document above to the résumé builder as plain text, through the same import an uploaded file goes through, and the review shows every field beside the line it came from. Here the completeness pass found four readable sections, 187 words of experience evidence, ten distinct skills and three languages.

The Conxfolio import review after the door opened, showing Sunniva Kalloway's example read into fields beside the rendered page, with the line saying it is an example — The real import review, opened by this page's own door. It names Sunniva Kalloway as invented before anything is saved, and it shows every field beside the line it came from.

There is no language model in that path. Every string a reader emits is checked in code to be a span of the document it read, and a field that fails that check is dropped and counted rather than kept.

What the checker scored it

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — The same door on a phone. Nothing is withheld on the small screen: the notice, the reading and the accept button are all there.

One hundred out of 100, with nothing open. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% + 100 × 30% + 100 × 40%, laid out in the article on the score. One thing to be exact about: that score is measured on the document's text, which is what the checker reads. It says nothing about how the Editorial layout exports. The ATS-safe mark is a warning about columns, tables and decorative characters in a layout, and the way to settle it for your own page is to export the PDF and run the export back through the checker.

Run your own through the ATS checker before you decide a layout is unsafe. A measurement on your actual document is worth more than a rule of thumb about designers. For neighbouring shapes, the marketing manager example and the accountant example carry the same structure, and the student example shows it before a career starts.

What to change for your own

Put your own volumes in: ranges, SKUs, shoots, assets, markets, press rounds. Name the software in the skills row and name the outcome in the lines. Keep the junior role short, because it is there to show the ladder. Then open the design gallery and pick the paper last, once the words are finished.

Write yours beside it

Opens the builder with Sunniva's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Editorial design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.

Use this example Check a résumé instead

Questions

Is Sunniva Kalloway a real designer: No. She is invented for this page, and so are Harrowgate Studio and Petrichor Brand Works. The figures show a shape and describe nobody's career.
Should a designer's résumé be designed: It should be set well and it should still be one readable column. Editorial is one of the layouts not marked ATS-safe, which is a deliberate choice on this page and explained below. The portfolio is where the design argument is made.
What did the checker score it: 100 out of 100. Nine action-led lines, five with measurable evidence, twelve lines of depth and 258 readable words. Editorial scores well because its structure is a single column with generous type, and the extraction is clean.
Where does the portfolio link go: In the contact row, as a plain address. The example carries it there so it survives extraction as text. A link buried in a graphic does not exist as far as any parser is concerned.
Do I need print production on the page: If you have it, yes. Press approvals, reprint charges and proofing rounds are the part of studio work a studio manager is actually worried about, and almost nobody writes them down.
Which design is this rendered in: Editorial, one of the 37 layouts. 21 of them are marked ATS-safe; Editorial is not, and the section below explains when that trade is reasonable.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 20 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.