HNC Graphic Design, all 10 units at Distinction Level
Experience: Almost 7 years print experience at a local newspaper, working in compositing, page layout, print origination, minor web design, illustration, photo manipulation and teaching other staff on programs such as InDesign.

Experienced in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Ventura, CSS and HTML, both in usage and teaching other people.

I have a passion for all things design related. When I'm not at work I can be found reading design and typography books, keeping up with the latest design news on the internet, or dabbling with new ideas.

I also like to go airsofting (it's like paintball), playing video games, dabbling in photography and trying various arts and crafts.

For the past six years I've worked in the production side of a local newspaper, creating advertisements and page layouts. In this time I've constantly pushed myself to learn new things, enabling me to partake in an HNC in Graphic Design. I passed at Distinction level, as well as gaining an outstanding achievement award from Totton College for my work.

However this doesn't mean I have stopped learning. The nature of design and new technology means it is something that is always evolving, and thus as a designer I enjoy learning new things and pushing myself. They say you learn something new everyday, and I'd like to hope that's true!

What about my work?

As you can see from my portfolio I can work to a variety of briefs. If you'd like a simple website design, some beautifully crafted flyers or a unique, eye-catching logo I may be able to help you.

Part of a project to create a portfolio for my work. Rather than using my own name I opted to create a design name to work under.

Mocked up in Photoshop and created using HTML and CSS.

A layout project for my HNC Design course using a stories written by a students at the college. Done using Photoshop (to create the main background images) and InDesign to layout. The main body text style is uniform across the rest of the magazine pages (set up by other students).

Part of my final HNC Project. I had to create an advertising campaign and materials for a fictitious Channel 4 show called 'Design Odyssey'. The project comprised of Billboard, and bus stop posters. DVD cases, promotional postcards, a website and a magazine spread.

Part of my employment at a local newspaper entails creating composite and some display advertisements for clients. shown below are a few examples of these works. All created in Adobe InDesign with recolouring and contrasting in Photoshop to be suitable for black & white printing, as well as custom illustrations and logo re-creation in Illustrator.

The project was to redesign a magazine for a local business partnership. The stories and photographs were supplied by NFBP. Layouts were created in Adobe InDesign, with elements (story headers) created in Illustrator.

5 designs were produced, one by each student, and the winning design was chosen to be printed and distributed to around 4,000 people/companies in the local area.