About me

.Graphic Designer & Illustrator with 4 years industry experience at different levels of the industry mainly in print and web - from typesetting to ad setting and even copy editing to brand identity and creative & art directorship: for magazines, marketing, merchandise, publicity, corporate, artistic, branding, logos and stationery.

My ongoing portfolio is available at *

I can work right from the initial brief and concept design, producing options & proofs, through to realisation, and importantly I have extensive print sourcing & printer liaison experience and thus can put jobs to bed. I have worked as part of large teams and also taken complete responsibility and have managed projects, budgets and teams. I thrive under impossible deadlines and can adapt to a wide range of styles and media to please diverse client needs.

I am based in London.

Skills

Operating Systems: OSX & XP

DTP: Adobe InDesign, Quark, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Xara Xtreme Pro

Photo-editing: Adobe Photoshop

Illustration: Adobe Illustrator, Xara Xtreme Pro

Web Authoring: Dreamweaver

Other Relevant Skills

- Hand-drawn illustration

- Digital SLR photography

- Studio Photography

- Advanced skill with a Wacom pen tablet

- General CSS & HTML

- Basic Javascript

- Great awareness & use of Web 2.0 and online communities

- Print sourcing & print liaison

- Budgeting & accounting

- Copy Editing & Proofing