About me

20 years experience working as a designer/senior designer for one of the UK's biggest toy companies. I've worked on a number of major TV & film properties & a wide ranging portfolio of other licensed & generic products.

Whilst at Character my main responsibilities included:

Design, concept visualisation & development of product, packaging, branding, illustration & graphic elements for a wide range of licensed and generic toy, game & gift ranges. The company holds (or held) the master toy license for many brands and I worked on a variety of them including Doctor Who, Peppa Pig, Fireman Sam and HM Armed Forces. I also supplied product visuals and rendered images for use on packaging for many other branded, 3rd party and in-house developed product ranges.

Providing creative guidance and technical support to a small team of junior designers on graphic, packaging & other design projects.

Liaising with external design agencies, freelance artists & licensing agents on product, packaging & graphic design projects.

Preparation of 3D models for 3D print output.

My background, in the dim and distant past, is in hand rendered illustration but I've developed excellent Photoshop, Illustrator, layout, 3D, & other digital skills over the last 20 or so years. I'm a creative thinker, versatile, dedicated, love to find solutions to creative and technical problems, always keen to learn new skills, passionate about my work and looking to be stretched.

Skills

3D Modeling, Graphic Design, Illustration, Image Retouching, instructional diagrams, logo design, Packaging Design, Photo Editing, Product Design, Product Visualisation, Rendering

Sector Experience

3D artwork, Illustration, Packaging, toys, visuals