about-me

I am both a Graphic Designer and a Front-end Web Designer. I design in my sketchbook, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Flash. I design and build beautiful standards compliant websites in (mostly )Valid XHTML and CSS within Textmate using tools such as Microformats, JQuery, WordPress and Flex. I have a background working in JAVA, Ruby on Rails and PHP environments using Agile methods and source control within small and large design teams. My design work has appeared in reviews and features online and in magazines, including over thirty Web Design galleries, Web Designer Magazine and Knowledge Magazine has twice recognised my work and once ran a two-page article on me, including an interview and gallery of my work.

About this site

This site was built on WordPress 2.8. It is using a blank theme with custom PHP functions created to allow me to update my portfolio and a regular base for ease of use. The front-end is all designed and built by me in valid XHTML and CSS.

Some more about me

My other loves outside of design are music and sport. My musical influences come from all over, but started after hearing a lot of hip-hop when I was younger. I purchased my first pair of turntables when I was 16 and inspired me to DJ. Cue a ridiculous amount of record buying and late nights perfecting it, some terrible gigs when I first started out and a huge learning curve.

After meeting with some like-minded friends who had already started a night, I came onboard as lead designer and DJ of Repercussion, an agency promoting drum and bass, hip-hop, house, breaks, dub-step, soul, funk and everything in-between. We hosted club night’s for the next 4 years, from Nottingham to Woking, then to London, culminating in two huge nights working with Goldie and Metalheadz, amongst others. Through these connections I was able to play in Europe and America, as well as across the UK. It’s still something I love doing and will be pushing myself back out there this year. Check out my music page for my latest mixes.