Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign remain my professional choice across print production, and I have taught these Adobe applications at several colleges and at Solent university. I am also exploring Canva + Affinity as contenders and Krita.
In my role as Digital Resources Developer at the University of Southampton 2019 – 2026 most of my design work consisted of infographics created using Illustrator, including these interactive ThingLink graphics.
Annual reports, pull up banners, conference marketing items and teaching aids were also created and artworked for print production as meticulously proofread press-ready PDFs.
First day on the job at Swift Graphics: this BBC Wildlife Magazine front cover while Artworker (later promoted to Night Manager). Client requested that I make the fox’s eyes and whiskers sharper, colour more saturated, and add bleed to the top of masthead. From left to right – final printed cover, CMYK film separations, Chromalin proof prior to amendments.
CenterParcs brochure cover, while Night Manager at Fairway Reprographics. My main responsibility was to retouch and colour-correct our drum-scanned images in Adobe Photoshop and then to add them to layouts created in QuarkXPress.
Client requested that I make this CenterParcs spread ‘less formal’ by removing a dark jacket worn by the man second in from left on main image. Working under the pressure of the looming presence of the motorbike dispatch rider waiting to take the film to the printers in St Ives…
I was Artwork Manager at Medicom Healthcare and Team Leader at Rexam Pharmaceutical Packaging. For more information about my pharmaceutical packaging experience see this page.
