Web Media Design | Microsites | Intranet Design
I am a creative web media designer currently living Hertfordshire. At present, I work for Europe's largest interdisciplinary practice of architects, designers and engineers in central London.
The nature of my work spans from web and intranet design to graphic design and illustration.
This site is a showcase to demonstrate the breadth of my work, transferable design skills and artistic input.
A wider portfolio of digital design, graphic design and illustrative work can be presented.
A selection of intranet based work is shown here with screenshots but can also be presented on cd as xhtml/css web pages.
Coming soon, a website for The Wacky Barber
Graphic Design | Design for Print | Visualisations
Much of my graphic work over recent years has been included in:
Drawing | Illustration
From early childhood, I have have had a passion for drawing. From this I developed keen interests in painting, watercolours, graphic design, typography, web media, hand and digital illustration.
I followed a natural path from drawing as a childhood hobby to studying graphic design and visual communication design to postgraduate level and then into working practice. When the opportunities arise, I like to take time to draw as I it often underpins much of my design work and reinforces observation skills, the understanding of light, form and composition.
Design Case Study | Freccia Rossa Shopping Center, Brescia, Italy
The brief for the Freccia Rossa project was to create a theme encapsulating the spirit of the Mille Miglia 1000km race that started in Brescia back in 1927.
A combination of hand drawn work and Photoshop was used to generate ideas that would be a consistent theme alongside the centre branding and wayfinding graphics. Some of the artwork used was the very early conceptual work that I’d never intended for use. However, the client liked the raw hand drawn feel and decided to implement it. I had initially produced more informed, better developed and appropriate artwork for this project but since having visited the complex and seen the work throughout, overall I'm pleased with the outcome.
Photographs by David Barbour
About
Visual Communication Design is a life long passion of mine. In addition to web media design, I particularly enjoy creating diagramatic visuals, hand drawn/ rendered visualisations, watercolour visuals, presentation techniques, magic marker drawing, perspective drawing, large scale wall graphics, graphic/ brochure design, information hierarchies and typography.
Over the last 8 years I've worked in eCommerce, content management, intranets and general website design. My focus has been on front end web design paying particular attention to information hierarchies, integrating high quality design with xhtml and CSS based wireframes. In equal measure, I have worked creating visualisations utilising hand drawn skills and integrating these with Photoshop and Illustrator.