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As a freelance motion designer I get to work on a whole host of projects. It really is a mix of direct to client projects and working third-party for agencies to help out with their motion design workloads.

I love both kinds of work equally, but as a freelancer... Read more →

I’ve been a freelancer for 13 years or so now, initially working as a web designer and then, for the past 10 years or so, as a freelance motion designer.

Like so many other freelancers before me, I made the leap into freelancing without truly knowing what would be... Read more →

If you’re wondering how to create tilt shift blur in After Effects then you’re not alone, it’s a lovely effect that can bring a really cool aesthetic to your projects.

In this post I’ll show you how to create a tilt shift effect manually, and then we’ll take a look... Read more →

My latest project for Loop is an online course to help motion designers with the business side of motion design.

The new course: business processes for motion designers, is basically everything I’ve learned over the past 14 years or so of freelance life, and it’s everything I wish I’d... Read more →

As part of my freelance motion design business, I often have to create proposals for prospective clients. Over the years I’ve tried to perfect the proposal process, and I’ve found that a simple professional approach often works best when trying to win... Read more →

Creating a custom logo animation for your business is a great way to enhance your brand image and make your logo more memorable, especially when it’s being used in video content, and on your website.

Take this custom animation for Dropkick Jonnys, it now serves as a great animated... Read more →

Before starting a new motion design project you should absolutely be putting together a statement of work: a simple document that puts down in writing exactly what is going to be done throughout the project and the deliverables to be produced along the way.

Having a written log of... Read more →

Animating your logo is a great way to present your company online and in film. When done correctly, logo animation can actually enhance your logo, adding interest and intrigue through motion.

So, how much does it cost to animate a logo? Well, to answer that... Read more →

I’ve just launched my latest project for made by loop called Spoke! It’s a radial layer repeater script for After Effects that provides a quick and simple way to repeat any layer, not just shaper layers, around a circle in After Effects.

Let’s say you wanted 10 copies of... Read more →

As a professional motion designer it’s my job to create wonderful animations for my clients and help them get their message out to their audience. It’s a job I love doing, and it’s a job that takes time to get right.

Sometimes though, time is of the essence and budgets... Read more →

Creating a glitch transition or adding some digital distortion in After Effects can take time to get right, there’s multiple layers and effects involved and even with something like the glitch presets for After Effects I made for Loop, it can be a bit of an effort to... Read more →

A few years ago a client of mine needed a voiceover for a motion design project we’d been working on. With a limited timeframe and budget to play with, I decided to invest in a home studio setup and record the voiceover myself, which I’m happy to say, the... Read more →

I’d love to be able to give a single figure answer to the this question, but the truth is; costs vary from project to project depending on client needs and style considerations.

As a very rough ballpark figure, projects tend to start from around £6000. This sort of budget allows... Read more →

Update: The Numero Script has now been updated to include a Beta version which includes the ability to add commas and decimals!

The first version of the Numero script was designed to take a lot of the legwork out of creating a... Read more →

* Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer and this post is not legal advice. This post is advisory, please do your homework and consult an actual lawyer before making legal decisions. *

I’ve made a new addition to the Freelance checklist, an item which should... Read more →

On the last day of my week long takeover of the Motion Hatch podcast Instagram account, I had an idea to post my latest motion design reel alongside the first ever reel/promo I did… all the way back from 2010!

For those of you that weren’t following here... Read more →

A couple of weeks ago, Hayley Akins from the motion hatch podcast got in touch to see if I’d be a guest on the show and I just had to jump at the opportunity.

For those of you who haven’t heard it before, the motion hatch... Read more →

Throughout my motion design work I’ve animated a fair few paragraphs for explainer and social media videos - much like the example you see here for trivago:

Although simple on the surface, the technique to... Read more →

UPDATE: The script has now been updated to make it easier than ever to create a sliding number counter in After Effects

My latest project for Loop is a brand new script for creating odometers or sliding number counters in After Effects like the one below:

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Yep, it’s that time again! I’ve managed to put together a brand new motion design showreel for 2018, featuring projects from the past year and beyond.

Take a look:

I really enjoyed putting this reel together, it really made me stop and... Read more →

2017 was a great year, I’ve been lucky enough to work on some wonderful projects with some ace clients and agencies, if 2018 is as good then I’ll be a happy motion designer!

As it was a busy one, I’ve only now had the chance to update my portfolio with... Read more →

Spurred on by some eye-opening documentaries like: Chasing Ice, Chasing Coral, and A Plastic Ocean (all of which I cannot recommend highly enough) I’ve been looking at ways I can change my daily habits to help reduce the impact I... Read more →

I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading recently, first up was: Thinking, fast and slow; a wonderful insight into how people think, and how humans make decisions in everyday life. The second was: The checklist manifesto - a fascinating read about the power of the humble checklist... Read more →

According to the Internet Advertising Bureau UK, Video was the fastest growing format in 2016, Up 56% on a like-for-like basis since 2015. With statistics like that it’s not hard to see why companies are turning to motion design and animation to... Read more →

I’ve always loved sci-fi, it’s my favourite genre by far. The world building, the rules, the foresight, just the wonderful creativity involved in creating something out of this world is what fascinates me the most.

As a motion designer, I’ve always wanted to have a go at creating a futuristic... Read more →

Fragment is the latest project I’ve made for Loop - a set of 15 glitchy transitions and presets for After Effects.

Had a lot of fun making the promo for this one too:

Making the... Read more →

Following on from the ever popular Instagram style Skylights filters I made a while back, I decided to make a pro version - 30 brand new filters, plus an additional 15 noise and grain overlays to... Read more →

Following on from my post about starting voice over work as part of my motion design projects I thought I’d do a quick run down of the setup I use:

Before I started I did quite a bit of... Read more →

After trying out freelancing from Berlin and Lisbon, I was searching for a new place to explore and freelance from. Then a couple of months ago, in one of those strange serendipitous moments life throws up every now and then: I discovered NomadHouse.

The... Read more →

Throughout a lot of my motion design work I find myself needing different hand icons; perhaps a hand pointing to something, or swiping on a phone screen.

That’s why I’ve made Handicons! A set of 30 different hand icons, perfect for all sorts of projects.

Here’s a quick look at... Read more →

If you take a look at a couple of my most recent motion design projects, you may notice the voice is actually the same:

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

It... Read more →

Following on from my freelance adventure in Berlin I decided to check out Lisbon back at the beginning of May, again taking a week and working from out there while exploring the city.

I decided to repeat what I’d done in Berlin and get an Airbnb, at the... Read more →

As a freelancer I’m always saying to people I can theoretically work from anywhere; all I need is a decent internet connection and I’m sorted.

Up until now I’d never properly tried it though, so I decided to book a trip to Berlin and give it a try. A bit... Read more →

Update:
I now operate on the following basis: in order to confirm a booking the client agrees to pay for the specified number of days in full.

Confirming a booking means potentially turning other work down, as a result that time should be paid for in full.

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My... Read more →

Well it’s more of a design refresh than anything else! If you haven’t visited the site for a while you may notice some slight design changes here and there, I thought I’d write a quick post to run through the changes.

Let’s start with the portfolio design - there’s... Read more →

Over the past couple of weeks I swapped Manchester for a freelance motion design contract at The Guardian in London.

I had a great time working there, as you can imagine the projects are pretty varied. In the first week I worked on this from the 99 seconds series:

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been down in London working freelance on some more motion design projects at The Guardian.

This time I worked on a couple of different projects, the first of which was a video detailing what the Ebola virus is, how it’s transferred, and what... Read more →

Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on a new motion graphics promotional video for my own website (something similar to my old motion graphics promo).

In this new promo I’ve used plenty of shape layers, halfway through animating I ran into a slight problem though: I’d... Read more →

Following on from freelance tip #1 - here’s the second tip I thought I’d share:

Consider getting some office space

When I first started freelancing I did what most freelancers do: I worked from home. It was great at first, no more commuting! I could jump into work straight... Read more →

I’ve been freelancing full-time for a couple of years now (I freelanced part-time while at Uni so I’ve actually been doing it for quite a while!) and in that time there’s been a fair few ups and downs. As a result I’ve decided to put together a couple of blog... Read more →

Ever since Adobe added Cinema 4D to After Effects I’ve been trying to use it more and more in my motion graphics work. Every now and then I’ll discover something cool & I just can’t help experimenting with it!

The most recent thing I’ve found is the ‘Cel Render’ effect... Read more →

I had a random idea the other day while I was looking at my current business card design - why not create a business card with a bit of a difference? Something which showcases the motion graphics work I do, something which could act as a little introduction to... Read more →

After creating a few different motion design gif experiments, I decided to incorporate one into my site to help advertise what I do.

This is the result:

It’s now helping to liven up the services page, I think it... Read more →

With Cinema 4D Lite now included in After Effects I’ve been getting back into producing more 3D motion graphics work. As a little side experiment I wanted to test out some texturing within Cinema 4D to see what is and isn’t possible.

I created the text and textures in cinema... Read more →

Following on from my previous motion graphics gif project I decided to create a new experiment, this time with shape layers!

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I was recently asked to create a short tutorial for the new Computer Arts Photoshop Studio Training magazine.

The tutorial aims to provide a basic overview of the video timeline feature in Photoshop. As well as covering how to import and work with video... Read more →

I recently upgraded to the Adobe Creative Cloud & one feature I was really looking forward to trying out was the Cinema 4D Lite package within After Effects. I’ve experimented with Cinema 4D before, mainly just creating a couple of random objects here and there, but only ever with the... Read more →

Update: The Deluxe pack is now no longer available, however, a new version: Skylights Pro is now available from Made by Loop

Introducing Skylights Deluxe! A set of 25 new filter presets for After Effects.

Following on from the original Skylights filters I created, I’ve decided to put... Read more →

When I released Skylights a few months ago, I wanted to track how many people actually clicked the download link to give me a rough idea of how many people were trying them out.

Luckily, Google Analytics lets you track particular interactions on your site using ‘Events’. Setting up... Read more →

I was looking through some of the pictures on my phone from last summer and decided to have a go at creating a short animation from a still photograph. Here’s the result:

Here’s the original photograph:

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I wanted to create an Instagram style filter using the standard tools within After Effects to help liven up some old footage I was working with. After creating a few different styles I ended up... Read more →

I’ve been working on a motion graphics project recently that involved creating an animated gif version of a client logo in After Effects.

Before taking on the project, I decided to experiment slightly and put some trial animations together to help get a feel for the gif making process:

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If you’ve ever developed your own Drupal theme then you may have noticed that Drupal & other contrib modules provide their own stylesheets for you to contend with. Of course you could just override the CSS rules with your own, however the files are still being included on every single... Read more →

A couple of years ago I wrote a short post on how to create an iPhone bookmark icon for your website which would appear if someone were to add your site to their homescreen. That post is getting on a bit now (the screenshot alone shows just how... Read more →

I’ve always loved watching video tutorials on the web, I find having someone talk you through how to do something and being able to watch them do it is far more engaging than simply following a blog post with some screenshots.

So I’ve decided to have a go myself! I’ve... Read more →

The BBC revealed the ‘Stadium UK’ trailer/ident for their coverage of the Olympic games during the Euro 2012 final last night - if you haven’t already seen it, take a look:

Personally I think it’s a great concept and... Read more →

Another short motion graphics test, this time experimenting with motion tracking in After Effects to ‘parent’ some visuals to the movement of my eye:

I’m pretty pleased with the results, using motion tracking like this can be a great way... Read more →

Another little motion graphics piece I’ve created, this time to experiment with a couple of different techniques when animating 2D shapes in After Effects.

The music was again created by Andy Hudson and the full track ‘Fear Of’ is... Read more →

I wanted to have a go at animating the futuristic Assassin’s creed logo in After Effects:

Whenever I see an animation I like, I’m always curious as to how it’s actually done and what techniques have been used to create... Read more →

To go along with my website redesign I thought it was time for a brand new promotional video as well. Here’s the finished video:

Once again the music was provided by my good friend Andy - http://andyhudsonmusic.com

When I... Read more →

As a little experiment into mixing live action footage with motion graphics I created the short sample videos below. The process involved tracking the motion of the video in After Effects and linking the position of the graphics to the tracked keyframes - this basically helps to keep the titles... Read more →

Social sharing widgets are everywhere these days and on a growing number of sites they even follow you down the page just so you’re blatantly aware of where they are at all times.

As well as just being visual pollution on a webpage, these widgets are resource heavy too, chocked... Read more →

Today I submitted my first Tumblr theme: ‘Block’ for review. (I named it ‘block’ because the main navigation is quite block-like as is the general structure of the overall theme.)

The theme has now been accepted into the theme garden - and should be available to install... Read more →

In an effort to learn a bit more about the Twitter API I decided to set myself a little weekend project to try and create something with the data available.

I’m used to working with PHP and found this pretty solid PHP library which gave me a good base... Read more →

A few weeks ago I blogged about archiving tweets by sending them to another web service using ifttt. In my case that web service was Google Calendar since I never really use it.

I just thought I would share a weekly snapshot of my tweets in calendar format:

As a little side project I decided it might be pretty cool to create an online word clock which shows the time as you might speak it.

So, I created: GrammarTime.

I’m pretty pleased with the result, looks pretty nice in full screen mode too.

I took the photograph below by lining up my iPhone to the eyepiece of a telescope. It was slightly tricky to get lined up but I think the end result was pretty great:

Pretty cool huh?

I’m still... Read more →

Another design I thought would make a pretty cool poster, although that could just be because I’m a pretty big fan of Star Wars.

This one was created for the ‘light’ brief over on GotBrief and started out as just a design of a lightsaber which then turned into... Read more →

UPDATE: unfortunately due to recent changes in the Twitter API it seems IFTTT has to remove the Twitter triggers which means the following technique will no longer work. Thanks Twitter.

I’ve been seeing quite a few tweets about not being able to search back through your own tweets, with some... Read more →

That’s right they’re back!

As I was sifting through my old blog posts I found the apostrophaces design I did just over a year ago and decided it was high time for a comeback!

The collection:

Font: Chiller

Font:... Read more →

This post talks about the latest iteration of my site design and the steps I took in order to produce it. It’s not really about the code I used to create the theme but more the rationale behind the various decisions made, the thoughts running through my head and some... Read more →

Mat Heinl gave a great talk at the Northern Digitals BLAB event yesterday in which he showcased some of the various projects Moving Brands have worked on recently.

Refreshingly, Mat talked about the creative processes behind the projects rather than showing the finished projects themselves. This approach... Read more →

Back in November I attended Build 2011.

Without a doubt the talk which stood out the most to me (and I’m sure a lot of others at the conference too) was this one by @WilsonMiner:

I was filled with inspiration... Read more →

Today I have yet again been faced with this:

Personally, I think something needs to change with regards to domain name registrations. Perhaps if a domain isn’t put to good use within 6 months it should be put up for sale again?

Over the past couple of months I’ve been working on a self initiated project: GotBrief.

After attending Build 2011 I was inspired, truly inspired by the various talks and events which took place over the course of the conference. So inspired infact I decided to actually go out... Read more →

Twitter has today launched a major new design of their apps across the board.

Interestingly the announcement on http://fly.twitter.com came with a call to download the official mobile apps in order to get access to the new design on your computer, was this to reinforce a mobile first approach?

Perhaps... Read more →

Two blog posts in one day? Surely not!

I’ve been hard at work finishing some designs off and thought I would post both today. Much like the Level Up design I posted earlier today, I think the following design would make a pretty cool poster:

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DrupalCon London is almost over, the sessions have all been wrapped up and all that remains tomorrow is the code sprints to try and put some of the awesome ideas from the week straight into action. This was actually my first ever DrupalCon, unfortunately I could only attend one... Read more →

If you’re trying to find a decent to-do list app then you really need to checkout the task management tool: Wunderlist. As well as a web app, wunderlist is also available for a wide variety of devices and perhaps the best thing about it: it’s absolutely free. Incredible really... Read more →

Detecting the width of a browser window can be very useful when designing a website, it allows you to create a more responsive design which is suited to the current browser dimensions.

Using the small chunk of jQuery below, you can easily detect the current width of a web browser... Read more →

Over the weekend I needed to resize an entire folder full of photos from my brothers graduation so I could upload them to the web without it taking 100 years to complete. I could have simply opened up each image in Photoshop, resized & re-saved them however that would have... Read more →

A little design piece I’ve been working on today, it’s called ‘fading chances’.

I don’t think it’s quite there yet & perhaps needs something else but I thought I would post it anyway. I find it’s quite good to just stop... Read more →

I thought I would share one of my favourite apostrophaces. I found it makes a pretty good background or wallpaper so feel free to save it & try it for yourself!

If you would like to alter/re-post this image... Read more →

Last week I released the latest version of designedbythomas.co.uk. If you ever visited the old site then you will see there has been quite a drastic change to the overall theme and structure.

I decided the time had come to upgrade from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 and as... Read more →

I’ve recently been using the Views nivo slider module for a Drupal project which needed a nice neat javascript slider. After installing the module & getting the slider in place I suddenly came up against a slight problem in that I needed to dynamically change the starting slide... Read more →

The only tools you’ll need for a social media campaign:

You don’t have to look too far to see that the major social networking sites are littered with these so called ‘campaigns’.

If you are planning a social media... Read more →

On Saturday I, like many other web designers and developers, woke up to some rather pleasing news: Microsoft has started a campaign to finally say goodbye to Internet Explorer 6 (IE6).

The campaign site: ie6countdown.com shows a worldwide map and statistics of the current usage count IE6 is... Read more →

I’ve been playing about with the idea of a design involving the outline of a person, much like the style of the Mad Men opening titles, however I have been a bit too busy lately to actually design anything!

I managed to play around with some of the ideas today... Read more →

The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) unveiled their new logo for HTML5 on Tuesday, along with a rather fancy website & a clear brand message on what HTML5 represents.

Along with the main logo, the website also provides a set of icons which showcase a list of features that are... Read more →

Recently, I was lucky enough to receive a Forrst invite from Jim Ramsden of designfridge.co.uk and over the past couple of months I have been actively contributing to the site whenever I get chance.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Forrst: it is an online... Read more →

A couple of months ago I discovered Qwiki.com, a site which aims to transform the way in which people consume information on web by offering ‘information experiences’. The site aims to do this by allowing users to search for information on a particular topic, much like conventional sites although;... Read more →

A few months back I discovered the brilliant fontstache/typestache poster which seems to show the personality of each font used through the style of the curly bracket.

Inspired by this I had a bit of fun putting together some ‘apostrophaces’ - by using the apostrophe of a font... Read more →

Captains log, star date December 31st 2010.

I find myself writing a blog post looking back on the year that has seemingly flown by and I can’t help but smile.

At the start of 2010 I was heading into the second term of my final year at Lancaster University and... Read more →

The CSS3 property: box-shadow allows you to create simple drop-shadows on block level elements within a webpage. The box below shows this effect in action:

.selector{ box-shadow: x-direction y-direction blur-amount colour; }

The box-shadow property also allows you to place the shadow within the element using the inset... Read more →

With the phase 1 changes to my site now live, I finally had the chance to work on some motion design work.

To get back into the swing of using After Effects I created the video below, it showcases some ‘kinetic titles’ as well as some other cool visuals,... Read more →

A few weeks ago I decided my website content pages needed a bit of a spruce up, less of a ‘redesign’ more of a ‘refactoring’ really.

Whilst designing the new content pages I also decided to make some changes to the backend too; moving away from the ZEN base theme... Read more →

On the 22nd June 2010 : I received the results of my four year degree. I am absolutely delighted to reveal: I achieved a first class Msci degree in I.T & Media Communications and as an added bonus I have also been nominated by the board of examiners to receive... Read more →

Whenever an ‘enter password’ message box pops up on my iPhone I immediately enter my iTunes password, it’s pretty much a an immediate action and I don’t tend to look at what the message is saying once I see the word: ‘Password’ I just zone out and enter it.

So... Read more →

A couple of months ago I came across Greyscale Gorilla - a blog dedicated to all manner of motion graphics and 3D design.

Whilst traversing the wealth of posts over there I found out about the ‘5 second projects’ - basically they provide you with a theme and... Read more →

Over the past couple of months I’ve been busy working on my final year project & dissertation and as a result the blog has suffered slightly!

Fear not my faithful reader(s), I am back!

As an initial post I would like to showcase my new business card designs I had... Read more →

Just a quick note, I have now added a new domain to my site: http://designedbythomas.co.uk - you will see exactly the same thing as if you were visiting the site from: http://thomasedavis.co.uk so there is no massive change going on with the working of the site.

designedbythomas.co.uk provides a slightly... Read more →

I think we all need a bit of inspiration once in a while, regardless of the field you work in! It is always useful to find a consistent source of inspiration which you can admire whenever a creative block forms over your head.

Not long ago I came across Read more →

I am very pleased to announce a brand new website design project: andyhudsonmusic.com has just gone live!

The website is part of a complete redesign & rebranding project which aims to increase Andys online presence as well as giving him a more professional and refined brand image to... Read more →

I recently wrote about the visual design within games and how I am inspired by the visual aesthetics of certain game environments & landscapes.

Following the post, I decided to have a play around with some of the aesthetic elements seen in one of the games I mentioned: Read more →

Phew! The past couple of weeks have been properly busy for me; finishing various projects, revising for exams and finishing coursework. Today however: I am finished. At precisely 11.19am today I finished the last exam of my Msc and quite possibly the last exam of my academic career!

If you... Read more →

I recently came across the site: behance.net - the site showcases creative portfolios and work from various people all over the world.

At the moment you cannot simply signup to the site, I am not sure whether or not this will change in the future but at the moment... Read more →

I am very pleased to reveal the new logo for my client: Mr. Andy Hudson.

The new logo is part of a larger rebrand project for Andys professional portfolio.

Andy is currently working as a freelance music producer and did some fantastic work for me on my promotional... Read more →

For those of you who follow me on twitter - you may have read that I recently became the owner of an Apple iPhone. I must admit that it was quite a hard decision, the lack of a camera above 3 megapixels being the main reason I didn’t really... Read more →

I recently completed a new promotional motion graphics piece to advertise my services in a fun and exciting way. The music used in the video was produced by my good friend Andy Hudson.

The video makes use of the new Video Copilot Sure Target 2 plugin.

The video... Read more →

After months of speculation and a plethora of ‘is this the new Apple Tablet?’ images, Apple finally revealed to the world: The iPad.

The anticipation behind the iPad release was monumental, something which is now common place with all Apple announcements; day after day there was another blog post... Read more →

In my previous blog post on website design & cross-browser support , I brought up the issue of cross-browser support and the main challenges for website designers trying to acheive the same site in all browsers - most notable Internet Explorer 6. Now, it seems that problem may... Read more →

A major aspect of website design & development is cross-browser support: making sure your website looks and feels ‘roughly’ the same in different web browsers running on different operating systems.

At the moment there are 7 main browsers in popular use: Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 & 8; Firefox; Chrome;... Read more →

In my blog post on the nabaztags, I talked about the RFID rabbits known as nano:ztags bringing a relatively new and emerging technology to the public in an aesthetically pleasing manner.

I then remembered a site which I had come across a couple of months ago: nearfield.org... Read more →

OK, now you may look at the title of this post and think that I have lost it but keep with me!

I am infact talking about this little critter:

He is the afore mentioned Nabaztag and is a very cool little device created by Violet.... Read more →

As 2009 draws to a close I find myself looking ahead to the future, making plans and setting myself personal and professional goals.

2009 brought many changes to my website; the most notable change is the design of the site, the new design fit into the new direction of... Read more →

Google have just released a video of their real-time search function.

So what does this mean? Well, if someone was searching for an article on the new realtime search function in Google at around 8pm on the 7th of December 2009 then my blog post and all the related... Read more →

Now this is how you attack a castle in the 21st Century!

The effect was achieved by mapping out the castle and then creating the various animations to fit the map - it was then projected onto the castle using a very high intensity projecter: the Christie 25K projector.

The... Read more →

Just a quick announcement: I recently changed the base URL for my blog from ‘blogs’ to ‘blog’ - this shouldn’t really affect anything too much but if you have come across a page not found error when trying to reach the blog from an external link then this is why.

I finally handed over the Lancaster Award site last week just in time for freshers week.

The whole project has been a really good experience right from the word go! The Lancaster Award team were a really friendly bunch of people to work with and I would gladly work... Read more →

Yes I have now increased my portfolio section to include my previous graphic design work.

This section will contain all graphics work (not website design) and will be updated very soon with all my previous work.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy checking out the: awesome new graphic design portfolio

I have had a such a good experience with this site that I thought it deserved a blog post:

About a year ago I was introduced to a wonderful site: studentgems.com - a brilliant site for all students looking for part time work.

The site is so good because... Read more →

As a freelancer I am currently not fixed in any one location for work.

For the past 3 years I have been primarily working in Lancaster as I worked towards my degree.

(I recently received my results for the third year and was very very pleased to have acheived a... Read more →

The great thing about Drupal is that it comes with a variety of themes available to download. If, like me however, you want to carve out your own theme then there is an incredibly useful way of doing this: the Zen theme.

Zen is a perfect starting point for... Read more →

Welcome to the new site design!

I recently updated my site from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 and to go with it I created the new theme you see before you.

Instead of upgrading from D5 to D6 I decided to make a fresh start. My old site had... Read more →