Experience
November 2008 - Freelance Design

I have worked on the following:

  • Designing a new portfolio site - www.joolsdesign.me.uk (work in progress - unfinished)
  • Designing a website for Courtyard Cottage – a guesthouse in Derbyshire - www.chinahouseyard.co.uk.
  • Designing a new logo for the Charity organisation Upward Mobility - involved in bringing communities together. Here is the first draft submitted to the client.
  • Designed a logo for Green Seeds - a volentary sector organisation involved in health, life-style and the environment for people in the community.
  • Finished the construction of a site I designed for Lily Rose Jewellery after designing a logo.
  • Updated the content for the BurchellConsultingLimited website.
May 2008 - October 2008 Graphic/Web Designer

Fasbet, 116 Elderslie Street, Glasgow G3.

Re-branded Fasbet from designing a new company logo to an exchange website; to the design of promotional material such as a Flash demonstration movie; promotional leaflets and print adverts; and the graphic design for the Fasbet stand at The Betting Show, Birmingham NEC. I also designed an exchange site for company client Purple Lounge as well as a new logo and website mock-up for associate company Wray & Entwistle.

Adobe CS3 Design Suite used to design the following:

February 2008 - April 2008 Freelance Design

I have worked on the following:

  • Business cards for Charmel Hair salon.
  • Updated and search engine optmimised website for BurchellConsultingLimited. The client was very happy as it significantly increased traffic to the site.
  • Designed the logo and started work on a website for Lily Rose Jewellery Design business.
September 2007 - December 2007 Interactive Web Designer

Party Gaming, King William Street, London EC4

Design and development of HTML e-mail newsletters for Party Poker as well as for a new contract with ITV - Emmerdale and Friends Reunited. Image editing and creation of banners/logos/animations and graphic design for campiagns. Creating and editing HTML pages on CMS and hand-coding for a number of international company websites - adding relevant askii code. Updating all Newsletters each month in e-mails and online.

Technology used: Photoshop, HTML, CSS, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Firefox Web Developer.

June 2007 - July 2007 Web Designer

Digital Look, Leadenhall Street, London EC3

Assisting in the front-end development of a new website for swapits.com as well as for Charles Stanley financial consultants. Development of page xhtml/css templates. Design of small site icons and graphics using Photoshop and Illustrator. Browser debugging in IE using development tool and Firefox using Firebug. Code developed in Crimson Editor and Dreamweaver.

Other tasks involved converting a financial forecast website from fixed width into a full screen css liquid template as well as IE de-bugging.

I also designed a mock-up in Photoshop for IFS - School of Finance. This was designed for 14 - 18 year olds.

August 2006 - March 2007 Web & Graphic Designer

Betfred, Benson Road, Birchwood, Warrington WA3

Position within Internet Marketing team designing for various projects. Design work included web and print design to promote Betfred.

Design of print adverts for Manchester Evening News & Racing Post.

I designed the look, feel and graphics for the www.betfredBingo.com website.

I have designed the following HTML/CSS e-mail templates:

Re-designed Bingo Game Interface

Click Here to view web image collection used in e-mail campaigns and for websites.

Other projects also include the design of Betfred Presspack brochure, a shop survey leaflet, promotional posters and screen designs as well as banner adverts and shop screens for betting events.

Print design samples

Print design samples 2

Scratch card and animated banners

Packages used: Photoshop CS2, Dreamweaver MX 2004, Flash MX, Illustrator, In Design.

September 2005 - May 2006 i4dsign.co.uk

Set up web and graphic design company targeting local new businesses. Specialise in design packages which include web, logo, stationary and advertising design.

Previous clients include…

i4dsign Websites… November 2004 - September 2005 E-Commerce Campaign Designer

RS Components, International Management Centre, Oxford OX4

Designing campaigns for a number of international websites as well as carrying out website maintenance and designing html emails. Used Photoshop 7 to carry out graphic design and Homesite 5.5 for coding with HTML, CSS, JSPs & Javascript links. Worked using UTF8 charset. Work also included preparing word format versions of campaign products and use of excel to record campaign product details.

Worked within E-Commerce team liasing with internationally based clients.

Sites designed on include…

Holland Denmark Ireland South Africa Norway Sweden Austria Belgium

Examples of campaign & advert designs:

English speaking   Non English speaking

[Website Winner of ECMOD & Orange business awards]

March 2004 - September 2004Temp. Typesetter / Graphic Designer

Vardis, Burscough Street, Ormskirk

Created adverts for a Magazine using Quark Express and Photoshop software on a Mac computer.

Printed examples of work

November 2002 - February 2003 Web Design work placement

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Designed and developed websites for the Education and Further Education Departments.

Website designed for Education Department…

MSc Proposal

February 2002 - September 2002 Assistant Web Designer

Virtual Designers, Dumbarton Road, Glasgow

Design and creation of websites for various companies.

Sites assisted designing include…

November 2001 - February 2002 Web Design work placement (E-commerce)

Smindex Ltd., Glenwood Place, Glasgow

Responsible for developing and maintaining sections of the company website as well as designing adverts for the website homepage. Used ASPs and SQL to create marketing html e-mails with forms. These enabled client information to be passed to and from the Smindex database.