About

Studied…

Studied Graphic Design at Salford University College, Finalist in the Royal Society of Arts Awards, Member of Manchester’s Student Creative Circle.

Worked…

First hands on experience in various Manchester Agencies including BDH, The Chase and Flying Colours, Graphic Designer at Trace Design, then Senior Designer at Telewest Communications.

Freelanced…

Set up as Menagerie in 1997. Since then, have built up a direct client list, learnt more things, learnt what not to do, welcomed and embraced the internet, designed, maintained and hosted websites, directed and animated music videos for broadcast, worked as freelancer for Code Computerlove, Love Creative, Epigram and others, met lots of good people, composed and recorded soundtracks for animation and video, learnt how to code in actionscript and xhtml, produced motion graphics sequences and 3d scenarios, perfected my tea making abilities.

KEY SKILLS

  • Art Direction
  • Graphic Design
  • Corporate Identity Design
  • Web & Email Design
  • Motion Graphics
  • Flash Animation
  • 3D Visuals
  • Video Editing
  • Music Composition
  • Sound Engineering
  • Illustration

SOFTWARE SKILLS

  • After Effects
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Cinema 4D
  • Vue Stream
  • Poser
  • Realflow
  • Flash AS2
  • InDesign
  • Cubase

WORKED ON JOBS FOR SEVERAL BRANDS INCLUDING…

  • HMV
  • Next
  • EMI Records
  • MBNA
  • Musicians’ Union
  • Surestart
  • Freedom Travel Group
  • Coop Travel Group
  • Waterstones
  • Sharwoods
  • Plumbs Furniture
  • Littlewoods
  • Celltalk
  • Mobile Shop
  • Hillarys Blinds Anchor Trust
  • Freeway Cars
  • Key Retirement
  • Morris Homes
  • Huggies
  • Tesco
  • Transpennine Express
  • Bruntwood
  • Kimberly Clark
  • 4imprint
  • Manchester University
  • Dr Martens Boots
  • Traveltek
  • Barclaycard
  • Telewest
  • Jerkin Crocus Promotions
  • Armstrong Learning

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