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Email
mikela.burnham@live.com.au

Location
Australia
Remote + Syd

Senior creative driven to make complex things simple. Always grounded in user, technology, and business needs. Adept at switching between big-picture strategy and pixel-perfect execution.

Creative Strategy • UI • User-Centered Design • Art Direction • Print Production

Diverse experience across Media (Nine Media, News Corp), Retail (Sainsbury’s, Estée Lauder), and Government (Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet). Proven management experience, with a track record of leading teams and delivering high-impact creative work for brands, including Amazon, AMEX, Coles, Toyota, Starbucks, Uber and Unilever.

Throughout my career, I’ve been lucky enough to win a few awards:
🏆 Native Global Advertising Awards 2025 - Bronze
🏆 Mediaweek Advertising Creative 2025 - Finalist (1 of 5 Nationally)
🏆 Creative Services Team of the Year at the PANPA Awards
🏆 Best Special Publication at Nine Media

Spill the dirt, what do people say about me? 👀
“Mikela expertly filled the role of sole in-house designer at the British Retail Consortium (BRC). Professional, efficient, creative, knowledgeable about all aspects of design and a wonderful colleague. An asset to any team that values design.” - G Trodd, BRC

“While at Fairfax, I worked with Mikela in the Advertising department for over 2 years. Over that period, she was extremely hard working and dedicated herself to always producing high-quality projects, be it a 60-page magazine, iPad designs or a new banner for an internal email. As a senior designer, she was integral for mentoring and organising workflow for the other designers while also managing her workflow. The nature of print media is that there are extremely short turnaround times as well as strict deadlines, and I was responsible for creating many of these short turnaround times. Even so, Mikela would always ensure these were met without compromising the end result. I would happily recommend Mikela and look forward to once again working with her.” J Ortner-Kemp, Nine Media/Fairfax