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2008

Moved back to Brighton UK, working as freelancer and looking to get back into full time work so I can sink my teeth into some big challenging projects and work in a team again.

2006-2007

I lived in Melbourne and various places around New Zealands' beautiful South Island. Worked on several websites and traveled extensively.

2005-2006

I made my first film, called ‘Sphercular Vision’. It’s a self invested solo project which aims to document some of the worlds finest poi and staff spinners. I filmed, edited and produced it all myself, and also managed the year long project. In this time I learnt a great deal about film production.

2005

I worked as a freelance Flash coder, mainly on banners and one large site for a well respected global advertising agency.

2003-now

I have created and managed spherculism.net. It’s a cutting edge community site which aims to accelerate learning and fuel understanding of Poi and other related art forms.

2002-2005

I worked as a graphic designer for a massive body jewellery company called ‘The Wildcat Collection’ in Brighton, UK. I made graphics everyday, including a 196 page full color A4 catalogue, which was a year long project for two of us. I also designed full page magazine adverts for print all over the world. We designed many postcards, in several languages, to send out to promote our new product ranges. I also designed the graphics for two ranges of body jewellery called Ikon Plugs and Picturebells. Both ranges are very successful. I did a
lot of photography using a Nikon D100 and image manipulation using Photoshop. I also helped manage a large webshop and community site and made flash advertising pages.

1997-2001

I studied Industrial Design BSc at Brunel University in West London. It was a 4 year ‘thin sandwich’ course which included 2 semesters working in design companies. The course was hugely varied, including: Product Design, Graphics, Web Design, Metalwork, Woodworking, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering,
Maths, Physics and Material Science. Brunel is a very well respected Design School.

2000

I moved to San Francisco and spent my second placement semester living at SFSU university. It was the first time I had lived outside the UK and I did a lot of growing up. After my semester finished I worked down town as a Model Maker, making very precise foam models of computer peripherals. I love this type of model making ‘sculpture’ and have a fine eye for aesthetic three dimensional form.

1997

I did my A-levels in Maths, Physics and Design at a good school in the UK.