Profile

I am a freelance designer with over 10 years experience within the graphic design industry.

Awesomely Simple

I call myself a graphic designer first and foremost, if only to impress the girls, yet I have skills and passions in many areas of computing, internet, programming, design, usability and troubleshooting. Okay, I lied a little. I'm not passionate about troubleshooting but I seem to have a mind that's tuned to that sort of thing. The bit about impressing girls is true though. It happened once.

I have been called a pragmatist and while that might sound boring, I like to make all my designs as simple, practical and logical as possible and if I manage to make them look great too then I feel I've succeeded. I'm really not a 'wow' kinda guy, but I do create stuff that works nicely and looks good. To quote Charles Mingus, "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity".

When I'm not working

I'll be honest here, I love computers and the internet. I spend a good portion of my day in front of the screen, designing, researching and sometimes just mucking about. Ever since I was 11 and I was given an Atari 2600 gaming machine I've been glued to the screen. Dick Smith VZ-200 > Commodore 64 > various Amiga's > various PCs (Windows) > MacBook Pro. Oh mighty MacBook Pro, how I fancy thee.

But, aside from the geek stuff I do allow myself to get out and about too. I like walking around, exploring and taking photos. I'm definitely just an enthusiast photographer as you can see from my photos on Flickr. Music, hanging out with my mates, drinking and eating, watching movies, learning Chinese and traveling pretty much sums up the remainder of my time. However, that might all change when I get my paws on a Nintendo Wii.