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. This example is set in Bridge, which keeps a split header and a firm baseline inside a single column. The portfolio is where the longer design argument belongs, and its address sits in the contact row as plain text.

What did the checker score it

97 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 4 points short and readable volume 4 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 92 × 40% for content, on fifteen action-led lines and 403 readable words. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied to it.

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

Bridge, one of the 24 ATS-safe layouts out of 37, and one of the eight chosen on 2026-09-14 from a measurement of every layout's own PDF export.

Example · Design

A free 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 · updated 2026-09-25

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

The graphic designer example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Bridge design: name, summary, three dated roles with five bullet lines each, education and a skills row — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Bridge 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.

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 ten years in packaging and identity, working across artwork, print production and the written guidelines a client's own team has to apply after the studio hands the work over.

Experience

Senior Designer · Harrowgate Studio, Copenhagen · 2021 to present

Built the identity system for a food brand across 240 packaging units in 3 languages, and held it through 5 market launches.
Cut artwork turnaround from 9 days to 4 by writing a component library the whole studio still works from every week.
Directed 14 photo shoots in 2 years and delivered 1 800 finished assets into the client's own asset library on schedule.
Ran the weekly design review for 6 designers and 2 freelancers, and kept all 31 jobs of the year on their print dates.
Wrote the 24-page brand guideline the client's marketing team now applies on its own, without the studio in the room.

Designer · Petrichor Brand Works, Aarhus · 2018 to 2021

Designed 31 packaging ranges for retail clients over 3 years, of which 9 went on to a national listing.
Reduced repeat artwork errors by 38% by rebuilding the studio file structure and writing its naming rules down.
Produced print-ready files for 5 markets across 2 years with no reprint charged to a client in that time.
Negotiated the photography brief with 3 suppliers and cut the cost of a shoot day by 24% without losing a shot.
Prepared 96 point-of-sale units for a Christmas range that shipped into 410 stores on its promised date.

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

Prepared 400 artwork files a year to press specification and held them to 2 rounds of amends or fewer.
Rebuilt 60 legacy logos as vectors and gave the studio archive one usable master file for each of them.
Established the colour proofing routine that took press approvals from 3 rounds down to 1 on every job.
Checked 1 200 bar codes and legal panels a year against each client's own compliance sheet before release.
Supported 4 new business pitches a year with layout and mock-ups, and the studio won 2 of them outright.

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

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

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

Production figures are the part nobody writes

Fifteen achievement lines, five under each of three dated roles, 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; an identity system held across 240 packaging units in three languages and five market launches 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 changed design

This page used to be set in Editorial and used to argue for it. The argument ran that a designer sends a PDF to a human being who opens it and forms an opinion in two seconds, so extraction risk mattered less here than anywhere else. The argument was reasonable and the page has changed anyway. On 2026-09-14 we measured all 37 layouts against their own exports, and Editorial is one of the few that still prints two columns into the text layer of the PDF it produces.

The example is now set in Bridge, one of eight layouts chosen out of that measurement. Each of the eight exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in a single column, with the reading order kept and no graphics. That is a statement about our renderer and our checker and nothing else: no employer system was consulted and none of it predicts a hiring decision. Bridge keeps a split header and a strong baseline, so the page is still set rather than typed, and the portfolio address carries the rest of the argument.

Skills for a graphic designer résumé, grouped

Sunniva's skills split cleanly into craft and tools, and a studio lead reads them in that order. Craft: brand identity, packaging artwork, typography, design systems, art direction, print production. Tools: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Figma. Grouping them this way stops the software names from crowding out the work itself, which is the thing a creative director is hiring.

If you do motion or 3D, give it its own group instead of adding four more tools to the list. The free résumé builder lets you switch Skills to In groups, name each group and move skills between them; the skills section guide explains which skills to drop first when the row gets long.

From junior to senior designer

A junior designer's résumé proves reliable output: artwork delivered to spec, files that went to print without a reprint, a volume of assets turned around each month. The Petrichor junior role reads that way. A senior line moves from producing to deciding: the identity you led, the packaging range you set the system for, the juniors whose work you reviewed.

The portfolio carries more weight as seniority rises, so the link stays in the contact row at every level. What changes is the words around it: a senior résumé names two or three projects the portfolio opens on, so the reader arrives knowing what to look for. The guide to linking a portfolio covers where the address goes.

How it reads and scores

The import review reads 3 roles, 1 degree, 3 languages and 10 skills before anything reaches the editor. The ATS checker scored it 97 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 4 points short and readable volume 4 points short: parseability 100 × 30% + completeness 100 × 30% + content 92 × 40%, laid out in the article on the score . The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied, and the five it did not award are one rule: bullet tense. How the reading and the score are produced is set out in the note on how these examples are made.

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 — Sunniva Kalloway's graphic designer résumé read into fields, each field beside the line it came from.

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — Sunniva Kalloway's graphic designer résumé in the same review on a 390 px phone.

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 Bridge design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.

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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. This example is set in Bridge, which keeps a split header and a firm baseline inside a single column. The portfolio is where the longer design argument belongs, and its address sits in the contact row as plain text.
What did the checker score it: 97 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 4 points short and readable volume 4 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 92 × 40% for content, on fifteen action-led lines and 403 readable words. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied to it.
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: Bridge, one of the 24 ATS-safe layouts out of 37, and one of the eight chosen on 2026-09-14 from a measurement of every layout's own PDF export.

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 22 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.