Freelance Designer / 2017 - Current

Working with a client database including The Beano, Griffon Hovercraft Company, Cornish Seaview Cottages and A&I Interiors.

Allso-Print / 2016 - 2017

Returned to help with aspects of design and print, data sheets, exhibition stands and web production. Working with a team and independently, covering all types of marketing design work and Indesign brochures using data merge.

The Binsted Group / 2002 - 2016

Marketing & publications company offering PR, exhibition, design and print. They also produce three trade magazines for the beverage, food and pharmaceutical industry, all written and designed in house. From the initial production, I created layouts or gallies then produced finished proofs for checking. Also designing brochures and exhibition stands and pull ups banners.

Allso-Print / 1999 - 2002

All aspects of creative design and print, from stationary, data sheets, newspaper advertisements, vehicle design, display panels and web production.

Colourgraphic Arts / 1993 - 1998

Colourgraphic Arts are a print company and finishing specialists with their own design team. I produced design and packaging to bureau separated print work. From leaflets to brochure work straight to colour proofs and plates to Crosfield and Agfa output devices so gaining experience in all aspects of print production. Projects included interactive cd programme using Macromedia Director.

Two Heads Design / 1991 - 1993

A Hampshire based advertising company in Odiham. Designing various types of work for a range of clients including Renault Sport UK race days and Lush products.

PDP Communications  / 1998 - 1991

Moved to Hampshire to continue to work on production of Slide presentations for Basingstoke clients including Thomas De La Rue, IBM Basingstoke, The Mercantile Insurance Co. But the creation of design and print was a very big part also of my responsibilities.

Mills & Allen International  / 1985 - 1988

Trained for outdoor advertising media (Avnet) systems. These were big outdoor advertising animation boards situated on the Cromwell Road and Piccadilly Circus. Working with London agencies to advertise products and campaigns onto this new form of outdoor advertising, including Eddie Shah's The Today Newspaper, Terry Wogan’s Six o’clock chat show and the release of Queen’s It’s a kind of Magic. As well as Ford, Motorola and WEA Records. I then moved to a subsidiary of Mills & Allen, Pearl & Dean cinema group to invest in computer graphics systems for the production of the cinema advertising end titles and outdoor advertising posters.

IBM Warwick / 1983 - 1985

Graphic Designer / Demonstrator in a contract capacity creating brochures and slide presentations to regional management and sales staff. This was the start of graphic design on computers therefore demonstrated to IBM’s computer aided publishing system to blue chip companies and exhibition shows at Wembley Conference centre.