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

Website: Wings Alliance

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

Website: Edwards

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

Website: American Energy

An American oil company

Flash: Cargo Risk Academy

Flash animation for Zurich plc.

Website: OUP English Medium Education

Design and build for Oxford University Press

Website: Crazy Cow

The client wanted a ‘fun yet professional’ design.

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: Disc Golf UK

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

Website: Therapy For You

1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem.

Website: Harwood

Brief: Generic pictures of business people doing fantastic deals

HTML email: Examples from Zone

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

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: England Green

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

Flash: GI Kinetic Text

An internal promotional animation for Zurich

Website: Milk Publicity

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

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…

Website: New Horizon Energy

A website for an oil company

Illustration: Kell

A Soundproof ‘Server Room in a Box’

Website: Prevailing Analysis

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

Website: Zenith Optimedia

Website build for True.

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: 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!

Flash: David’s Pension

Kinetic text for Zurich Plc.

HTML email: LT Studio

A MailChimp responsive email template for LT Studio.

Flash: Zurich, The Edge

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

Illustration: Flying School

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

Website: Ethernet Ltd

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

Website: Gentect Homes

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

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: Somerset Crimbeat

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

Flash: Zurich4Protection Banners

Animated banner campaign for the zurich4protection website.

Website: Good Morning

Good Morning are a distributor to the catering industry.

Website: OUP Brasil

Website build for Oxford University Press

Website: English Weather

English Weather are a very very posh knitwear company.

Flash: Nigel’s Pension

Kinetic text for Zurich Plc.

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!

Website: Merganser Consulting

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

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.

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.

Drupal website: Cloth magazine

A swanky new website for the sewing aficionado.

Website: Labels Zoo

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

Website: The Raceway, Birmingham

This website came with one of my favorite briefs eve…

Website: Car Wizard

A rare opportunity to use a graffiti style font

Website: LT Studio

Minimal – you haven’t seen anything yet!

Website: Whisk

Whisk! is a Bristol based catering and cafe company.

Website: Merganser support for schools

A nice simple WordPress website.

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.

Illustration: Security items

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

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.

Illustration: Binatone phones

The old dog n bone…

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: 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: Zurich CommzKit

I translated this website into nine languages.

Website: OUP Mexico

Website build for Oxford University Press

Website: Sector

iTransact contracted me to build this WordPress website

Flash: E-learning module

Built in flash with SCORM functionality.

Illustration: Parts of car engines

Line drawings of complicated lumps of metal.

Print: Soil Association

A pleasantly down to earth piece of work

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…

Flash: Dubai showreel

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

Website: Cambridge IT

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

Website: JAB group

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

Website: Backhouse

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

HTML email: Jongleurs

This is an email for Jongleurs Comedy Clubs.

Website: BC Photography

This is basically a fairly simple and robust HTML site.

HTML email: Naturebotts

A complex html email build.

HTML email: True

A simple HTML email.

HTML email: English Heritage

A complex HTML email build.

Website: Walkabout Bars

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

Flash: Animated banners

A campaign of over 200 banners!

Illustration: Rexel binders

Bound to please!

Illustration: Fellows binders

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

Website: Cogent

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

Website: Flavour magazine

A website for foodies.

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: Ben DJ Art

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

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.

Illustration: Britax

Technical illustration for a Britax child car seat manual.

Website: Alternative Capital

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

Website: Kelston Sparkes

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

Print: Waterlily bath company

Posh baths for posh people.

Website: OUP US Higher Education

Website build for Oxford University Press

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!

Website: Aerosol Society

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

Website: Jongleurs

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

Website: Zurich 4 Protection

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

Silver Lining

A very simple e-commerce website selling homemade jewellery.

HTML email: True Digital

A complex html email build.

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 FMT Clinic

A quick and easy WordPress site.

Illustration: Aeroplanes.

Lovely pictures of a jumbo jet and a DC3.

Website Maintenance: Complete Coherence

Achieve exceptional performance, even under extreme pressure…

Website: Surge Bikes

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

Website: Nagaland

I designed and built this website for a Danish company.