Graphic designer cover letter example
A graphic designer's cover letter points the reader at the right work. Say what you design, describe one project and what changed because of it, name the portfolio pages to open first, and say why this studio or brand. The design manager reads the portfolio next, so the letter stays short.
Read the letter as text
Tasha Blake
Bristol · [email protected] · 07700 900233
12 October 2026
Ms Nina Castell
Design Manager
Fieldfare Studio
3 Wapping Wharf
Bristol BS1 4RW
Dear Ms Castell
Application for Mid-weight Designer
I am applying for the Mid-weight Designer role at Fieldfare Studio. I am a graphic designer with five years in a studio and an in-house brand team, working mostly on packaging, print and social for food and drink brands.
At Harbourside Foods I design packaging and point-of-sale for 46 product lines. When the range kept growing, I rebuilt our packaging templates in InDesign and Illustrator so that each new flavour starts from a checked master file. Artwork set-up for a new flavour now takes half a day instead of two days, and the last nine launches went to print with no reprints.
Pages 2 to 5 of my portfolio show that packaging work, and pages 8 and 9 the event branding I produced for studio clients at Kite & Compass. Your recent work for independent drinks makers is the kind of brief I would like to take from first sketches to print.
My CV is attached, and my portfolio link is in it. I can start after one month's notice and would be glad to talk through the work in person. Thank you for considering my application.
Yours sincerely
Tasha Blake
Fictional letter from Tasha Blake, the applicant in the graphic designer CV example. Every person and employer in it is invented.
Why each paragraph is there
I am applying for the Mid-weight Designer role at Fieldfare Studio. I am a graphic designer with five years in a studio and an in-house brand team, working mostly on packaging, print and social for food and drink brands.
The job, your level and the work you do most.
At Harbourside Foods I design packaging and point-of-sale for 46 product lines. When the range kept growing, I rebuilt our packaging templates in InDesign and Illustrator so that each new flavour starts from a checked master file. Artwork set-up for a new flavour now takes half a day instead of two days, and the last nine launches went to print with no reprints.
One project, what you did and a result a design manager can check.
Pages 2 to 5 of my portfolio show that packaging work, and pages 8 and 9 the event branding I produced for studio clients at Kite & Compass. Your recent work for independent drinks makers is the kind of brief I would like to take from first sketches to print.
Which portfolio pages to open, then why this studio.
My CV is attached, and my portfolio link is in it. I can start after one month's notice and would be glad to talk through the work in person. Thank you for considering my application.
Notice period and an offer to talk through the work.