What I do at my desk

Who employs me:

  • Individuals who want a website
  • Print Designers who want their ideas to work on the internet
  • Small Businesses that want their existing website updated or maintained.
  • Design Studios and Agencies who want me to work in-house
  • Blue Chip international conglomerates who need my help
  • Manufacturers who need illustrations for their manuals

 

I’m an extremely efficient worker. I don’t miss deadlines.

Here’s some examples of my work

HTML email: True

A simple HTML email.

Print: WMS Catalogue

This was my first job in print, back in 1998. Before the interview, I read the Quark Xpress manual from cover to cover.

Website: Pure Fudge

This website is for a new mum who wants to sell fudge in her spare time between changing nappies (you couldn’t make this stuff up).

Website: Gentect Homes

Gentect Homes is an innovative partnership of leading specialists who plan, design and build quality homes…

Website: OUP English Medium Education

Design and build for Oxford University Press

Website: Sector

iTransact contracted me to build this WordPress website

Website: Aerosol Society

It’s hard to explain how outdated this website was without showing it..

Website: Good Morning

Good Morning are a distributor to the catering industry.

Illustration: Fellows binders

I still don’t know what these machines actually do.

Illustration: Rexel binders

Bound to please!

Website: JAB group

JAB Group provide a bespoke recruitment service for sales and marketing appointments within the building industry and allied sectors.

Illustration: Britax

Technical illustration for a Britax child car seat manual.

Website: Therapy For You

1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem.

Flash: Zurich, The Edge

This was for a huge TV screen at a trade show.

HTML email: True Digital

A complex html email build.

Print: Soil Association

A pleasantly down to earth piece of work

Website: English Weather

English Weather are a very very posh knitwear company.

Website: Flavour magazine

A website for foodies.

Website: Ben DJ Art

I had long wanted to create the most simple site possible..

Website Maintenance: Complete Coherence

Achieve exceptional performance, even under extreme pressure…

HTML email: LT Studio

A MailChimp responsive email template for LT Studio.

Website: iTransact

This website presented a number of technical problems that seemed impossible to solve…

HTML email: Zurich template

This is a template file used for internal emails.

Website: OUP Brasil

Website build for Oxford University Press

Flash: Animated banners

A campaign of over 200 banners!

Website: Whisk

Whisk! is a Bristol based catering and cafe company.

Website: BC Photography

This is basically a fairly simple and robust HTML site.

Website: Edwards

An exciting opportunity to learn a new API to create an Estate Agents website

Website: Prevailing Analysis

Prevailing is a leading provider of engineering and analysis services to the wind farm industry.

Flash: Nigel’s Pension

Kinetic text for Zurich Plc.

Illustration: Flying School

A very small selection of the 5,000 images I have redrawn for BGS.

Website: Backhouse

Backhouse specialises in small-medium sized housing developments primarily across the South West of England.

Website: New Horizon Energy

A website for an oil company

Website: Milk Publicity

Milk wanted something ‘different’, and the designers really took that idea and ran with it.

Website Somerset FMT Clinic

A quick and easy WordPress site.

Website: Disc Golf UK

I recently started playing Disc Golf and came across a site selling discs in the UK.

Drupal website: Cloth magazine

A swanky new website for the sewing aficionado.

Website: Ethernet Ltd

The client needed a website in a hurry. I designed and built this website in two days.

Website: Brodie Press

I had this design idea for ages, but was unable to persuade any business to go with it. Then Brodie Press came along and loved it.

Flash: Cargo Risk Academy

Flash animation for Zurich plc.

Illustration: Security items

Various items for a company that made security cameras and lighting.

Silver Lining

A very simple e-commerce website selling homemade jewellery.

Website: LT Studio

Minimal – you haven’t seen anything yet!

Flash: Zurich4Protection Banners

Animated banner campaign for the zurich4protection website.

Website: Cogent

This website uses Drupal CMS. I would always choose WordPress, but sometimes the client knows best!

Website: Walkabout Bars

Situated in most city centres throughout the country, Walkabout (Aussie theme bar) now boasts 49 pubs… and counting!

Illustration: Parts of car engines

Line drawings of complicated lumps of metal.

Website: Zurich Intranet microsite

To be honest Jack, you are the key person in getting this project to be where it is and you have been brilliant to deal with…

HTML email: Jongleurs

This is an email for Jongleurs Comedy Clubs.

Website: Harwood

Brief: Generic pictures of business people doing fantastic deals

Website: OUP US Higher Education

Website build for Oxford University Press

Website: OUP Mexico

Website build for Oxford University Press

Print: Ultimatum

Ultimatum is an annual magazine which is sent to people who play Ultimate frisbee in the UK. For ten years I have been the designer of Ultimatum.

Website: Wings Alliance

Bristol Ground School asked me to rethink their Wings Alliance site.

Website: Car Wizard

A rare opportunity to use a graffiti style font

Print: Waterlily bath company

Posh baths for posh people.

Print: Rugby programmes

I got to meet quite a few of the team. Well, I didn’t actually meet them, but we all had breakfast in the same café at the same time.

Website: Nagaland

I designed and built this website for a Danish company.

Website: Surge Bikes

Surge Bikes needed a dynamic e-commerce website to showcase their exciting range of electric bikes.

Website: Ferguson Mann Architects

I’ve had the honour of working for quite a few architects, and it’s fair tom say that they share a few things in common…

Website: Jongleurs

We built and maintained the Jongleurs website from 2001 – 2009.

Website: Crazy Cow

The client wanted a ‘fun yet professional’ design.

Flash: GI Kinetic Text

An internal promotional animation for Zurich

Website: Zurich 4 Protection

Sometimes it’s nice to be a very small cog in a very big machine.

Flash: E-learning module

Built in flash with SCORM functionality.

Illustration: Binatone phones

The old dog n bone…

Website: Kelston Sparkes

Operating over 200 items of earthmoving, crushing and land remediation plant.

Website: Bristol Ground School

This is a complex website; not only does it sell courses (£216,538.00 turnover), it also enables students to book cramming courses from a list of scheduled events.

Website: Merganser Consulting

To be honest, I still don’t fully understand what it is this company does!

Website: American Energy

An American oil company

Website: Joel Bugg

Joel understand the value of professional photography and so we had the joy of working with some really excellent images for this project.

Website: Zenith Optimedia

Website build for True.

Website: The Raceway, Birmingham

This website came with one of my favorite briefs eve…

Website: OUP Education

I suggested that with minimal code changes I could make the current website responsive, thereby eradicating the need to run two websites with the same information.

HTML email: Naturebotts

A complex html email build.

Website: Alternative Capital

This was a turnkey solution website which took only 10 working days to deliver.

Website: Legend Events

This site was build in Joomla CMS (an inferior predecessor to Wordpress), and is huge! There are around 300 pages of content!

Illustration: Aeroplanes.

Lovely pictures of a jumbo jet and a DC3.

Website: Noisy Little Monkey

The website needed to be big, brash, colourful and most importantly responsive. These guys are also really on updating, and add new blogs to their website on a daily basis.

Website: Merganser support for schools

A nice simple WordPress website.

Website: Labels Zoo

An e-commerce website, selling integrated labels, which achieved £250,000 turnover in its first year of trading.

Website: Barney Cokeliss

Barney was about to head off to the Toronto International Film Festival, where he had a short film premiering when he realised that his website was very out of date…

Website: Somerset Crimbeat

Somerset Crimbeat is a charity that give out money to projects aimed at improving local environments.

Website: Jamie McPherson

One of the the cameraman behind amazing wildlife-documentary productions such as Attenborough’s ‘Our Planet’ and ‘The Hunt’, needed a new website.

Website: Zurich CommzKit

I translated this website into nine languages.

HTML email: English Heritage

A complex HTML email build.

Flash: Dubai showreel

This is a showreel to ‘pump up’ Zurich’s agents in Dubai…

Website: Aspen Concepts

This website offers them a simple CMS that does a lot of complex stuff in the background to make their website look great.

Website: England Green

England Green wanted something completely unique, with usability coming way down the list of priorities, and concept being at the top.

Website: The Lockout

I got to listen to new music from upcoming bands before anybody else had heard of them. Some of them never had a more enthusiastic audience than me!

HTML email: Examples from Zone

I did a load of html emails for Zone Digital, here’s a small sample of them.

Illustration: Kell

A Soundproof ‘Server Room in a Box’

Flash: David’s Pension

Kinetic text for Zurich Plc.

Website: Interflow UK

Interflow UK are a the UK suppliers of various high end stainless steel products to the building industry, for example kitchen drainage ducts and air ventilation systems. Their products are installed in the kitchens at both Buckingham Palace and the House of Commons!

Website: Cambridge IT

These guys offer great IT support, rescue and advice in the Cambridge area.