About me
I’m Jeff, a graphic designer from Cornwall who has lived in Lancashire, Berlin and London. I’ve got fifteen years’ experience now in the print and design industry and work freelance as Mulberry Design. I’ve worked on brochures, leaflets, mugs, badges, stickers, corporate identity, business cards, product packaging, newspapers, postcards, roller-banners, websites… you name it. My ambition is that everything I produce should meet the client’s needs, be aesthetically pleasing and accessible. I’m always improving my skills, and trying to do better…
Over the years I’ve worked with a broad range of clients both local and national, including Friends of the Earth, Sue Ryder Care, CND, trade unions and the respected Liberty campaign.
My German’s pretty good, too.
I draw in my spare time, mostly cartoons with ink pens. I use pencils too, but there's something about the crisp black line of an ink drawing that gets me excited. In summer 2011, I completed a part-time Art Foundation course to try and further my creative expression.
Key skills
Vector and bitmap graphics — Photoshop and Illustrator
Document design and layout — InDesign and Quark Xpress
Preflight — Acrobat, proofing, creating and checking print-ready PDFs
Microsoft Office
Understanding of the print and reproduction process, both offset and web press
Website design and graphics — Dreamweaver, Joomla, HTML, CSS
Strong drawing skills
Proof-reading and typography
Production management — organising work, calm under pressure, respecting deadlines, managing colleagues
Favourite things
Favourite writers: John Fante, Brian Moore, Kate Chopin, Patrick Hamilton, Lev Tolstoy, Beryl Bainbridge, J. G. Farrell, Charles Bukowski, Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Nelson Algren, Ivan Turgenev, Mervyn Peake
Favourite films: Wild Strawberries, Paper Moon, Last Picture Show, Seven Samurai, Summer with Monika
Favourite artists: Samuel Palmer, George Grosz, Suzanne Valadon, Robert Crumb, Sebastião Salgado, Käthe Kollwitz, Van Gogh (of course), Honoré Daumier, Heinrich Zille, John Heartfield
Favourite music: Beethoven, Prokofiev, Schumann, Shostakovich, Radiohead, The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las, (yes, OK, sixties girl groups in general)
Favourite TV theme: Black Beauty [link]
About this site
I coded this site to validate as XHTML Strict 1.0. And acknowledgements to Lokesh Dhakar, whose Lightbox script graces half the sites on the web — including this one.
