About me

25 years in creative digital space. Government and major corporate clients with London agency Domarn Group. Fonts design with Linotype, London. /WEB /SEO, SOCIAL /DESIGN /PHOTOGRAPHY /RESEARCH ADAM BARNES is a creative agency. We create work people care about across all channels. These days it’s easy for people to avoid things that don’t matter to them. Creating work that people care about has never been more important. Whether it’s brands, websites, ads or images, we strive to produce distinctive, engaging touch points that people want to interact with. Why do we take more notice of something when it challenges our views and sharply contrasts with our expectations? Perhaps it’s because a different perspective can turn a conventional idea into something more powerful. Something extraordinary. This is the choice. To deliver what people expect or present them with something they never would have expected. The challenge is to create great ideas and craft them to evoke an emotional response. Ideas wrapped in intelligence and wit to engage with and stir the audience. You don’t do better until you do different. And creating difference is what we do best.

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Projects

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  sunriseAn early start just to capture the sunrise, for a new project. https://steller.co/s/8dtdGdg824F
• THE GOOD FOOD CHARTThis is a collaboration between Sarah Waterhouse and myself to produce an accompanying app to a fantastic piece of artwork, â??The Good Food Chartâ? its now live in the app store. Designed in Photoshop and Xcode
• Delicious DessertsThe Swan House app was designed to show the best of traditional desserts with maybe a twist, using fantastic photography and humours editing giving the viewer aspirational menus, with more apps on the way and all sorts of fantastic food!
• ROYAL PARKSTo Design front-end graphic design of the site using a responsive grid-based system Designing the UX/UI (user experience and user interface) for all the Royal Parks sites, liaising with their internal digital team to produce a clean site, for desktop and mobile, all done in photoshop in a moderfide bootstrap style, Bootstrap was chosen as it’s the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile projects on the web. The brief was a complete refresh of all their sites, bringing in modern Internet technologies such as responsive grids, bootstrap, TTML5, GPS Google maps and hidden content on slow bandwidth devices. Content page templates: Landing page template for each park The Royal Parks homepage design latest news upcoming events blog posts promotion of The Royal Parks Foundation contact details park features – e.g. cafes restaurants, gardens or sporting activities. use of Google maps for navigation/location E-newsletter template Mobile Web app (version of there full site, with button to full site) Smallest to start from 320/480 pixels wide, this should have an almost app feel, for ease of use and usability, with clean UI and a strong UX across a group of mobile devices. The amount of content will almost be the same; maybe content and images can be hidden until user requests them for speed of download. Use of geolocation was used to identify monuments/sculptures to coffee shops, trees and so on.
• Platform TicketConstantly updating, changing, speeding, improving our website, including usability UX and UI, all with a Wordpress backend, a CDN and hopefully great content and work!
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  Suffolk countrysideDog walking and it ended up being an amazing night, the light was beautiful, all shot on my iPhone.

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Work history

MD
Oct 2014Full Time
I'm addicted to technology and love good design and solving technical problems - from websites through to app's, user experience & user interface, social marketing and all the way up to large publishing systems. I enjoy the challenges that are presented, I own and run Platform Ticket Ltd dealing with some fabulous clients ranging from small, independant business's through to Government Departments and Corporate organisations; working on small to large projects. Platform Ticket has helped our clients in the ever-changing sea of modern publishing, we use advanced MS Office templates, to make life far more easy and efficient, producing some beautifully designed ready for publication documents, we also design a workflow to import and map those templates into Adobe Indesign ready for print, HTML, XML, iPad/iPhone, Android phones and tablets apps, any number outputs needed in today modern life. Photography is now a big part of my creative output, from architecture to street photography, and can often be found walking through London with my camera kit.
Technician Director
Jul 2002 - Oct 2014Full Time
Worked on many government departments and publications from the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, NAO, DFT and the Civil Aviation Authority to name a few, creating a workflow for editors to get to a designed product quicker using bespoke multi channel publishing systems, using XML, XSL, through to Indesign, the output being Print, HTML, XML ready for a CMS. Am tasked with keeping the company up-to date with technology and design processes, through to doff rent medias from apps to ePubs.

Skills

• Web Development
• Websites
• CSS
• Design
• Wordpress
• Creative Direction
• Interactive Design
• Web Production
• Web Page Design
• Photoshop

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Graphic Design, 2/1
Sep 1991 - Sep 1995
Specialised in typography, and interactive design.