About me

I'm an interactive designer with a love of all things cutting edge. I pride myself on my ability to back up my design concepts with the technical know how to build them. Over the past few years I have had the privilege of working on some great projects for some great agencies but now I'm on the hunt for my next big opportunity.

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Projects

• Sport Relief 2018Sport Relief 2018 social media campaign
• The Sun Dream Team World CupEmail designs for The Sun dream team World Cup news letter
• Omega anti-magneticThe brief from Omega was to showcase the anti-magnetic properties of their new Co-Axial watch movement. The idea that we came up with was to use iron filings and magnets to show magnetic forces at work. The filings and the watch are pulled by the magnets but the watch keeps perfect time. In order to create the best effect possible I created a custom particle system using action script and tweenlite, in combination with bit masking this allowed me to make the text completely dynamic allowing for
• PM PhonicsPM Phonics is a series of books aimed at teaching primary school children correct pronunciation. For the latest set of books Cengage wanted to create an interactive whiteboard teaching application to be used in the classroom alongside the books. Using animation and sound, the application enhances the book content to create an engaging and fun learning experience.
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  Agent Oso: Special Alert!Special Agent Oso is one of the flagship programs of the Disney Junior channel. To coincide with the half-term school holidays Disney Channel Online commissioned this interactive mini site with a range of games and activities that would unlock each day throughout the week.
• Christmas tweetsFWA award winning self-promotional website for TwentySix Leeds that I helped create. Using Flash, Papervision and Twitter we created a sort of Holiday Spirit Barometer. Each of the four characters racing around the globe represents a different Christmas theme and is linked to a corresponding set of keywords in twitter. The progress of each character was mapped on an interactive graph, the more tweets the character got, the faster their progress. Credit for this project is due to all the other h

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Work history

Digital designerKing
Oct 2020London, United KingdomFreelance
Digital DesignerAmazon
May 2019London, United KingdomFull Time
Digital designer for the internal Amazon EU creative and design team

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Skills

• Art Direction
• CSS
• Javascript
• Creative Direction
• Interactive Design
• After Effects
• Photoshop
• Html5
• Digital Design
• UI Design
• Social Media Advertising

Education

BA New MediaUniversity of Leeds
Sep 2005 - Jun 2008Leeds, United Kingdom
Design and communications

Awards

FWA Site of the dayFWA
As part of the interactive team at Twentysix I helped design and build this interactive site that pulled live data from twitter to discover the true meaning of Christmas. http://thefwa.com/cases/christmas-tweets