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ABOUT Me
I'm a designer based in South London. I am enthusiastic about all things design, typography and code and love learning about new trends in web development. My passion outside of work is music whether discovering new bands or going to live gigs and festivals.
I love reading about science, technology, psychology, and design amongst other things.
Work Experience
I have 20yrs studio experience working on global and national brands. My experience includes print, typography, retouching, layout, web design and build, scripting languages, POS, packaging, 3D, Social Media, and branding. I integrate a large array of software to take rough briefs through to finished designs/artwork in a very short time and love problem solving.
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Hardware:
27" iMac 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 8GB SDRAM, 2TB hard drive
Mac Book Pro
Main Software I use:
All things Adobe (CS5): Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Premier, After Effects, Fireworks.
All things Microsoft (Office 2011): Word, Powerpoint, Excel and only because I have to!!
3D: Lightwave 9.6
Social: Tweetie, Rockmelt
Music: Audio Hijack Pro, Soundedit
Listening: iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud, Last.fm
Others worth mentioning: Final Cut Pro, Quicktime Pro, Adobe Media Encoder, Vectoraster, CuteFTP Pro, Fontographer, Art Text 2
Programming Languages:
I use these, but am in no way a programmer, just a designer who loves and understands code.
Actionscript, HTML(5), CSS(3), jQuery, PHP, mySQL. I also rent a hosted server running LAMP so have experience with Server configuration.
Favourite utilities:
Dropbox: Cloud based file synching, backup and sharing with desktop/web and iPhone apps. Couldn't live without it now!
Evernote: If you are as disorganised as me, this is a lifesaver. It stores notes whether text, audio, video, files, webpagesvia the cloud so available to me everywhere I go on web/desktop and iPhone.
Codebox: Just found this via The App store. Great little code repository. File all your Actionscript, PHP, jQuery, CSS etc and if you store the data file within Dropbox, that code is available to me everywhere :)
Kaleidoscope: Cool litlle App for comparing text files and images. Very useful to see were code has been changed without having to scan through it all manually or where a client has changed copy in only a couple of places and you don't want to import it all again and reformat.
My Favourite Design Websites
What I'm CURRENTLY listening to:
Spotify playlists
FAVOURITE Films
Withnail & I, Crash, Inside Job, The Smartest Men in the Room, The Room (Tommy Wiseau... the worst/best film in the world!), Anything by the Coen brothers, Mike Leigh, Quentin Tarrantino
FAVOURITE Books
Freakonomics, Bad Science, A Brief History of Nearly Everything, 100 years of Solitude, On Chesil Beach
Gigs 2011
The Joy Formidable, British Sea Power, Irrepressibles, Airborne Toxic Event, Yuk, Elbow, The Veils, Iron & Wine, Decembersists, Does it Offend you Yeah!, The Kills, AVI Buffalo, These New Puritan, Glastonbury, Pink Floyd, Skindred, Trail of Dead, Jessie J, Vaccines, Anna Calvi, Death from above 1979, Sufjan Stevens, Darwin Deez, Cage The Elephant.
Gigs 2010
And so I watch you from Afar, Evelyn Evelyn, Bombay Bycicle Club, 65 Days of Static, Japandroids, Tubelord, Holy Fuck, Goldhreart Assembly, Rage Against the Machine, Band of Skulls, Darwin Deez, Ozzie Osbourne, Florence and the Machine, Fools Gold, The Walkmen, Minus the Bear, Wintersleep, Iron & Wine, Finn Andrews, Irrepressibles, 65 Days of Static, Mumford & Sons, Talons, Alice Cooper