Portfolio
Clients
I have worked with numerous leading agencies as a sub-contractor, including:
Here are some selected examples of my work:
Business and small organisations
pli design
pli design, who specialize in eco-friendly home and office furniture, approached me to help revamp their company website. I got them up and running with WordPress, enabling them to blog and edit their copy themselves, turned their new designs into a clean, valid XHTML/CSS WordPress theme, and did a lot of custom PHP programming to help them easily manage their online products catalogue and downloads area.
Hive
This healthcare communications startup contracted me to build their company website in a simple, engaging, blog-centric style. WordPress was the natural choice, and Hive were delighted with how simple it became for them to post ideas, encourage discussion, and include media such as YouTube videos.
emagine
Wyndeham Masterpiece, one of London’s leading creative production studios, needed an easy-to-use small-scale CMS solution for a site showcasing emagine—their online magazine publishing system. WordPress fit the bill, and I helped transform their design into a fully working WordPress’s theme.
Ysanne Spevack
I know Ysanne through my work on her OrganicFoodee.com site. Besides her expertise in organic food, Ysanne is also an acclaimed violinist, composer and string arranger. She’s worked with such luminaries as Michael Stipe, Billy Corgan, Jane’s Addiction and Asian Dub Foundation. I revamped her website to run on WordPress.
The International Arts Pestival
I’m very proud to have revamped the website for the Internation Arts Pestival, which saw its first incarnation in 2006. In 2007, their mission of “celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect” has relocated to the presitgious Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank. Based on their print design work, I created a new look-and-feel for the website, and installed WordPress to run their news updates.
Fulgur Limited
Fulgur specialise in producing very high quality editions of metaphysical works by such noted modern esotericists as Austin Osman Spare, Kenneth Grant and Michael Bertiaux. I’ve redesigned their site, giving it a clean, elegant style and enabling them to manage their own content with WordPress.
OrganicFoodee.com
Formerly OrganicFood.co.uk, this online organic food and lifestyle magazine is now aiming for a more global audience. Although debate continues about the health benefits of organic food, and how much it’s a middle class lifestyle fad, I maintain a belief in promoting organic food on the unshakable basis of our need to diversify away from excessive reliance on fossil fuels. I work closely with the editor, the leading organic writer and broadcaster Ysanne Spevack, to keep this very popular site growing and thriving.
Creeping Toad
I’m a great admirer of Gordon MacLellan’s work, creating environmental art and celebrations as a way of helping children and communities learn more about, and foster their appreciation of their immediate natural environment. I’m proud to have designed his site (thought the code is a little outdated now!), and to manage it on an ongoing basis.
Public sector and charities
John Grooms
Awarded the Charity & Public Service Website of the Year award in 2005
With the revamp of the website for this housing association for disabled people, Public Life wanted to show that fully accessible websites can be slick and good-looking, too. From the layouts created by their designer, and informed by Public Life’s own careful user testing, I developed the working XHTML and CSS.
NC3Rs
Another successful integration of carefully constructed XHTML and CSS with a third-party Content Management System, carried out with Synergy Communications for The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research.
Royal Medical Benevolent Fund
For the RMBF, which supports doctors in need, I worked closely with Synergy Communications as the Technical Project Manager to ensure that the RMBF’s requirements were clearly scoped and understood, and communicated effectively to the technology supplier, TNL. As well as producing documents and managing communications in this process, I produced the XHTML/CSS templates for TNL to integrate.
Personal projects
Dreamflesh
Dreamflesh is the umbrella for most of my personal projects dealing with consciousness, psychology, ecology, mythology and related topics. My blog is here, as well as details of the current flagship project, Dreamflesh Journal—a print format publication of essays, interviews and art hailed by The Guardian as a “bastion of the esoteric”—and my book of essays, Archaeologies of Consciousness.
Kirsty Hall
Kirsty Hall is an artist based in Bristol, and a friend. I put together this small WordPress site to showcase her work and let her blog about her art. It’s been hugely gratifying to see her dive into blogging with aplomb, and she’s richly deserved her place on EmptyEasel.com’s list of 8 Must-read Art Blogs for 2008…
Also…
Here’s a list of most of my other work, getting older further down the list (with notes on my involvement in brackets):
- Baz Ratner (design & code)
- Charities Evaluation Services (ColdFusion CMS)
- Bay Area Hyperbarics (code)
- Guinness Trust Group (code)
- Gin Sen Chinese Medicine (design & code)
- Footsteps Holistic Treatments (design & code)
- Head Over Heels (design & code)
- Ace of Discs (design & code)
- Phil Hine (design & code)
- Strawberry Switchblade (design & code)
- Nigel Roberson Associates (design & code)
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