Graphics and web
Beetle Evolution
British 1951
I'm an established web and graphic designer with wide experience. Loved my work always. Graphics, typography, corporate style or the web - its all the same creative process.
I love it when a plan comes together - to make a good infographic needs thorough research, inspiration and vision. A picture being worth a 1000 words is exactly it.
How I got here and selected previous work.
SD Lifestream.
 
SenFocusSenFocus Identity.
The brief: to create a logo for a new business providing support and assistance to the elderly within social care institutions. It should attempt to feature key areas identified as necessary physically and mentally for senior citizens residing in care homes.
First thoughts: to try to visually embody all areas into one image, however...link
Access TVACCESS MyTV icon set.
The brief: design a custom icon set for an international Social Video project that allows customers to create, watch and share personal video channels on any connected device. The GUI was already under development and this required me to work closely with the project director and designers. To build some identity into them I used the spheres from their logo as a background to each one thereby creating colourways for each subset...link
Infographics. The UK judo belt grading system is at best confusing. The system must allow for the same grade being taken at different ages and the tradition adjusted for modern physical and mental health requirements. Junior Mon's are equivalent to the Senior Kyu's after 6th. The graphic is an attempt to tie it all together with the path to black belt and beyond made clear. The 360 'circle of life' concept assisted this greatly. -Illustrator-
Belt Grades
Beetle Evolution
My first car was a Volkswagen Beetle and when the bug bit it was hard to ever recover. One of 2 shapes known the world over, originally an almost perfect unity of art and machine - '...it is like a puzzle, every piece tells you which one comes next. There is a system, a language, that takes shape and relates one to the other, and one piece is never fully independent from the next...' - Damian Ortega, Mexican sculptor and installation artist. -Illustrator-
About. I have wide experience in graphics being originally print trained. After gaining my degree at Cambridge Art School I worked in central London with design agencies, various publishing, magazine, PR and marketing companies. After working with NEC (Japan), in the marketing roll-out here for the first 3G mobile networks, a recent spell in the USA expanded my knowledge of sales and marketing techniques. Please contact me for the full CV.
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Skills
I grew up fascinated with the printed document (perhaps it began with Eagle, TV21 comics) wanting to communicate well by incorporating images and words in the most captivating way I could. Layout and typography were my early strengths and as I gained more experience art direction.
I was very happy to embrace the full control that desktop publishing brought to designers and the new media opportunity provided by the web. I was always excited by technology... forever something new to learn and enjoy.
Key skills: Adobe CS Suite, php, MySQL, CMS, developer strengths primarily front-end.
Accent
Budget Blinds
Guide Association
Manx Project
MotorCycle Funerals
NEC
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