About
I am a highly motivated and driven senior designer with over 10 years experience delivering high end design and animation. I am extremely versatile, can adapt to stay ahead of trends, and keep up to date with the latest techniques and technological advancements. I have many transferable skills across all areas of design; from making pitch documents, to leading presentations; creating thumb-stopping social content, to branding, typography and creative for both digital and print.My personal passion is creating my own comics which I sell online and at conventions. I started exhibiting my work at MCM Comic Con in 2023, and have since appeared at notable conventions such as Thought Bubble Comic Convention, and UK Games Expo. I also volunteer with the online community Roll for Good, who raise money for charity by streaming Tabletop Roleplaying Games.
Skills
Typography
Illustration
Ideation
Presenting
Branding
Character Animation
Keying
AE Expressions
Compositing
Rotoscoping
Storyboarding
Layout
Essential Graphics
Tracking
VFX
Software
After Effects
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Cinema 4D
Premiere
Figma
Brand Guidelines
Helping to shape brands is one of the best parts of being a designer. To illustrate this, I have made my own brand guidelines, to show off my expertise. You can find the full guidelines here.
Infographics
Deep Green
Explaining a new idea can be a challenge. I was tasked by Deep Green to visualise their new technology and make it more understandable. I created two infographics - one to show how a traditional data centre uses energy, and another displaying Deep Green technology.
Character Design
British Paralympics
The British Paralympic Association wanted a video explaining their Classification process, while representing athletes true to life. I worked directly with the client to create characters representative of each sport, who all feature in the film, to show the array of events and people in Para-sport. The video currently sits on ParalympicsGB’s youtube channel with over 16K views, which is considerably higher than the rest of their content.
International Tennis Federation
After my work with the Paralympic Association, I went on to make another explainer for the ITF: International Tennis Federation. Not wanting to reuse the same art style, I created these cute, simple characters to help make the topic of Classification more approachable, and made sure that the sports wheelchairs looked correct, and true to life.
Background Character Generator
During a project which involved drawing a lot of extras in a short amount of time, I created an Adobe Illustrator script which allowed me to cycle through body parts I drew, and various colours, in order to generate unique looking characters. By creating different facial expressions and arm poses, these characters could be used to populate a scene without seeming repetitive. This saved an immense amount of time, and allowed the art style of the project to stay consistent, while also still remaining editable for client feedback. For an in depth technical explanation of how I did this, you can read my blog post about it here.
Social Posts
TalkTalk
During the covid lockdown, TalkTalk wanted to provide easy, quick tips for their customers to stay connected, in a time where connectivity had become vital. I created a series of posts to help illustrate these tips.
Betfair
After new regulations had come in, Betfair needed a social template they could use in lieu of photography of football players. I helped to develop their template, recreating football shirts for the Premier League and World Cup.
Stoke + Dagger
Excited about the Paralympics and accessibility, with Stoke + Dagger I created these handy reference sheets explaining classification for each Para-sport. These posts came in 3 sizes, portrait, landscape, and square.