ANANYA
DUNN



I am a multidisciplinary designer predominantly interested in editorial graphic design and tactile making with a keen interest in environmental topics. 


Raised in Warrington, I am currently living and working in South-East London.



CONTACT

email ︎︎︎
ananyadunn@gmail.com



Designer
Pink Trolley Magazine
(January 2020 - Ongoing)

Pink Trolley is a arts and culture magazine created to support and promote Northern artists. I joined in the January of 2020 as the Designer and Co-Editor, to work alongside the Editor and support the magazine. The role consists of working to format, edit and design the magazine with the use of various Adobe software and other creative mediums whilst assisting the curation of events.



Design Intern
Graphic Thought Facility
(April 2022 and February till March 2024)

During a 3 week placement at Graphic Thought Facility in 2022,  I supported designers in a brief creating new branding for the V&A Childhood Museum. In 2024, I joined them again during February and March to support a project reworking the space inside the V&A Theatre and Performance collection. I worked on Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, testing various typographic styles and sizes and creating imagined visuals for the physical sites.



Junior Designer
Wildfarmed
(4 month placement from May 2022 to November 2022)

I joined Wildfarmed on a 4 month placement during the summer of 2022, with additional work made over the autumn months. During this time, I was asked to curate and design Soil, a zine promoting the living being of soil and inspire more people to care about it. I held interviews, edited text, gathered content, designed and created the graphics. 

(Assistant at Hackney School of Food) 
As part of my placement, I helped out with the  Hackney School of Food during various cooking and gardening classes for children. I supported the head chef Tom through the classes while taking photos and videos to be used by the school and Wildfarmed for media content.  



Customer Service Assitant 
The Royal Academy of Art 
(September 2021 - May 2022)

Customer service role with main responsibilities of working on the tills, providing informed knowledge about exhibitions and artworks, helping with gallery inquires, organising and displaying stock, and welcoming people to the gallery



Studio Assistant
3rd Rail Limited
(August 2021 - September 2022)

For this role, I helped out at the print studio 3rd Rail Limited by organising and bagging clothing which would then be delivered to the customers. I was requried to use a heat press to print labels into the clothes and sort clothing into correct piles. 



Editor
Pigeon Pie Zine
(November 2019 - August 2022


A personal project started just before the lockdown of 2020. I wanted to start making zine work and decided to start this zine with the aim of showcasing the mundane things in life, the small things that make people happy. 



Volunteering 

- The Library Garden 
- Hackney School of Food
- Northern Roots