The world of creative design offers endless possibilities so I am always looking for the next evolutionary step in graphic design.
Having worked in education, creative design and club industries, I have had years of valuable experience working on customer campaigns and internal communications. In that time I’ve developed a keen commercial acumen and an ability to deliver work to a high professional standard which is on brief and to client satisfaction.
Each new brief presents a welcome challenge and I enjoy nothing more than producing innovative campaigns that combine creative visuals, animated media, witty typography and interior design.
I often take a ‘hands on’ approach in the design process, working closely with numerous printers and manufacturers in the creative industry to oversee jobs in their entirety, from concept to delivery and installation. Nothing ever phases me!
A creative muse is anything that inspires your imagination toward creativity: people, music, movies, books, ideas, creative works produced by someone else, or even animals. A muse can come in a variety of ways.*
Majestically always in motion the Moon Jellyfish is the perfect muse for our creativity. We are lucky to have five of these wonderful creatures in our Studio.
Moon Jellyfish consist of 95% water and have no brain, blood or heart, yet is always on the move with determination and purpose as they propel themselves around their environment with minimal effort.
Because of their translucent nature, the Moon Jellyfish can reflect and take on characteristics of their surroundings, such as coloured light and shape from currents generated within their aquarium.
In a similar way every creative task can be seen to reflect characteristics from the surrounding world of graphic communication.
*Extract from: What is a creative muse? © 2020.
This handsonflair website was created using a collaboration of HTML 5, Bootstrap 4, CSS and Java script to deliver a responsive, visual showcase of engaging content.
The self motivated brief was one of interactive discovery to demonstrate competence and technical ability for creativity across a multitude of platforms.
The creation of handsonflair was an enjoyable journey of personal development through numerous instructional videos resulting in rewarding productivity.
Using an amalgamation of visually engaging Adobe Flash / Animate animations including responsive icons. To increase SEO a dual HTML navigation and body text was created in a twin column layout.
With the introduction of a complicit CSS styling the two elements were able to be stich together seamlessly. The Staff portal was accomplished using a pairing of JavaScript, PHP and MySQL to manage administration and login.
Using HTML 5 and Dreamweaver to construct the framework, paired with JavaScript to deliver stylish and exploratory navigation of the site, from page to page. Multiple web galleries were stitched together to create a flawless marriage of visual promotion of services and portfolio of previous creative work.
Using PHP a small script was added to the site to enable enquirers to be processed via the server and redirected to the main enquiries inbox.
Using Adobe Flash/Animate to create animated image carousel to duplicate to effect of a camera view finder and shutter, multiple images were able to be displayed without the need for the user to scroll down and navigate the website.
Core frame work and layout was created using HTML 5 in conjunction with CSS to deliver a nautical themed website targeted at both possible applicates and parents/guardians of possible applicates.
