Design.
During my time at college I started getting into design; multimedia specifically, through a web based project. My initial start at html coding sparked an interest in the more back-end side of the internet, getting into sites & seeing how they worked.

I took on a Ba (hons) afterwards studying Multimedia graphics, looking more into front & back-end design for the web, as well as developing an interest in graphics. My favoured mediums of notepad & photoshop soon developed; as well as a taste for the occasional asp binge.

But time changes & so does coding; having tried my hands at coldfusion, asp, php, html & css, I eventually settled on a favoured back-end code of html & css during my final year at university. Preferring the endless possibilities style sheets can provide & the easily accessible design needs that can come out on the front-end of the finished site.

Whilst preparing my final projects at university I then sparked the rather potentially mad idea of carrying one of my projects on after my degree, & expanding it even further to create a magazine; Alt fashion. Building on my graphics & design for print skills along the way with each issue.

Each issue being a labour of love (& caffienated photoshop sessions) my design skills & my knowledge of print work flourished with each & every 3 month period on each issue. Having slaved away for 2 years now on my non-profit creation my print skills have reached a new level of understanding & ease working within my preferred programme of photoshop for each page.

Since my first flurry of design work in late 2001 my skills have developed along the way & my knowledge of designing for not just my own visions but clients needs have grown vastly.

Inspired by the graphical layouts in independant publications such as Disorder & larger magazines such as The face, & Dazed & confused. As well as the kawaii but functional layouts on sites such as Lady luck rules ok & the penmanship of artists Jamie McKelvie & Mark Ellerby.