Sounds good project
A full project for the Sounds good project - 2007 - design, layout, proofreading and sub-editing of this 136 page book for child advocacy, an outstanding project funded by the Princess Diana foundation.
About Me
Hi, My name is Pete Simpson and up till around two years ago (2010) I was the person behind the well known and well respected Blackdogsquare Studios. What happened about two years ago you ask? Well, I had an (early) mid life crisis and decided to see what the 'other life' was like, you know, the one where you do not work 85 hours a week to get a site finished on time, or end up doing 95 design variations for an extremely tricky client. So, what did I do? Well I went into retail - essentially a pharmacy role with retail tacked on, it's a great job with great people do not get me wrong, but it is not where my passions lie - hence the reason I am looking to get back into my 'old life' of Web and Graphic design! My old life went something like this (juicy bits only) . .. .I started Blackdogsquare in 1998 shortly after a serious bike accident (Vauxhall Corsa enema) that left me partially paralysed for six or so months, I had not much else to do so I decided to learn some HTML and build me a website.....which I did, and it was awful, but I got better with time, I also called my design skills into play (I previously worked freelance 3D level design for Epic Megagames in 1998 on the Game of the year version of Unreal Tournament - me, Mark Rein and Cliffy B were like this ( strangely, a vision of crossed fingers now enters your mind)), I was all set for a glittering career with DMA design (now Rockstar) until I decided I did not want to move to Edinburgh (IDIOT just flashed into your brainbox, I know), but everything happens for a reason so I decided to put my time to good use and started Blackdogsquare Studios instead. I had to suddenly, overnight, become a designer/coder/marketer/PR/receptionist/accountant (not so good at that one though), it was hard, hard work but over the years (I also worked full time most of this period as I liked the security of regular income) things got better, I got a great reputation and some great clients - one who I worked with for almost eleven years, things were great and the one time I actually remembered to enter a competion I came joint second (the Yorkshire Internet Awards 2006 no less), after that I got contacted by various yorkshire design agencies to handle their overflow print and web work which was brilliant but also meant I could not show as much work on my site as most of it was under an NDA or four! Then, as mentioned, sometime in 2010 I got a short circuit in the brain and quit it all, closed the business and decided to try my hand in the big bad world. My brain is now fixed and I am looking to get back into the industry I loved...
$ 14 USD/hr
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