Employment & Experience
Freelance Graphic & Web Designer (2004-present)
Clients include Transdev Blazefield, Nottingham City Transport, Ash K. Design, Lucy Wilhelm Design, Onega Soundsystem.
New College Nottingham (2008-to present)
Graphic Designer; working in team to provide design and marketing services to entire college.
Guest Lecturer (October 2007)
Invited to lecture at Nottingham Trent University's School of Art and Design as part of the “Preconceptions” series.
Transdev Plc (2006-08)
Graphic & Web Designer for various subsidiaries (Transdev Yellow Buses, Transdev Blazefield) on a consultancy basis through Nottingham Tram Consortium.
Nottingham Tram Consortium (2004-08)
Graphic & Web Designer; sole designer with responsibility for all graphic and web design, including photography, copywriting and organising print.
Leicester College (2001-04)
- Web & Intranet Developer (2002-04); worked to redevelop college website and staff intranet.
- Web & Intranet Assistant (2001-02); supporting Web Developer and E-Learning Developer.
Qualifications
MA Graphic Design
Nottingham Trent University (2006—07) [View MA work]
PDC Computer Generated Text & Imagery
Leicester College (2002—04)
BA (hons) English & Media Studies (2:1)
De Montfort University, Leicester (1998—2001)
Secondary Education
The Ashcombe School, Dorking (1992-98)
4 'A' Levels, A-C grade, 10 GCSEs, A-B grade
Skills
- Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign)
- Quark Xpress
- Dreamweaver
- Designing and building XHTML/CSS compliant websites
- Database driven websites using ASP/MySQL
- Working knowledge of PHP and software (PHPList, WordPress)
- Experience of using Flash for animation and video
- Basic video editing using Premiere and Avid
- Confident using both Mac and PC
- Photography— including black & white processing