The showcase of designer Richard Brown - specialises in web design, Interactive design, graphic design, 3D Studio Max, After Effects, Illustration

I'm Richard Brown and you are looking at my credentials. I specialise in interactive design, motion graphics, graphic design, animation and illustration.


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Mission: Find A Senior Creative Position In Graphic Design

Hi! My name is Richard Brown, welcome to my site. I've been working in design fulltime for 4 ½ years in which I have worked for a broad range of companies. I also have studied in design for 6 years before starting full time work.

I am flexible to work individually or as part of a larger team on a wide range of projects and client solutions. I have presentation abilities and client facing skills gained through working as a freelancer and within agency environments.

I am a Senior Graphic Designer with excellent level of knowledge and experience in designing for various media platforms including Internet, CD-Rom, Kiosk, 3d, Animation, Print and Television graphics. I am flexible, hard working and enthusiastic.


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	Professional Projects:

	Johnny Bravo Live Microste (opens a popup window)
	Grey Interactive 3D man - Movie 1 - Movie2 - Movie 3 - Picture (all opens popup windows)
	Grey Interactive Christmas Card - (opens a new window)
	Grey Interactive Floor Numbers - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Picture 4 (all opens popup windows)
	www.emporium-online.co.uk (opens a new window)
	The Professional Corp - Professional Emails - Professional Web Designers - Professional Documents(all opens new windows)
	Vodafone Demos - Demo Example 1 - Demo Example 2 - Demo Example 3 - Demo Example 4 (all opens popup windows)
	Equisys Zetafax Presentation - (opens a popup window)
	University Of The First Age Video - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Picture 4 - Movie (all opens popup windows)
	Preparation-H Flash Quiz (opens a popup window)
	KandiBASE Microsite (opens a new window)
	Symbian Mobile Games Video - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Movie (all opens popup windows)

	Pitch Work:

	Kool Factory - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Picture 4 (all opens popup windows)
	PWC POPI Site - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Picture 4 (all opens popup windows)
	Pearsons ITV Quiz - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - >Picture 3 - Picture 4 (all opens popup windows)

	Team Projects:

	www.vodafone.co.uk (opens a new window)
	Vodafone in-store Kiosk - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Picture 4 (all opens popup windows)
	Childrens BBC Online Re-design (opens a new window)
	Cartoon Network WAP service (opens a popup window)
	mediacomuk.com (opens a new window)
	Oenotheque.co.uk (opens a new window)
	Music Choice ITV (opens a popup window)

	Personal Projects:

	www.peterbrown.net (opens a new window)
	Illustrator Kevin Mullins Website (opens a new window)
	Moon Rocket 3D animation - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Movie (opens popup windows)
	Ravenstorm Films Movie Sting (opens a new window)
	Typography Conference Poster (opens a popup window)
	Time Foam Party Poster (opens a popup window)
	E20 Flyer (opens a popup window)
	My Sisters Wedding Website (opens a new window)
	3D Mapping and Navigation - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Movie (opens popup windows)

	Experimental Work:

	Vector Drawings - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Picture 4 (all opens popup windows)
	Sketches - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Picture 4 - Picture 5 (all opens popup windows)
	Pioneer Movie - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Movie (opens popup windows)
	3D Experimental Movies - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Picture 4 - Movie1 - Movie2 (opens popup windows)
	The Centre Of Attention (opens a popup window)

	Illustration Work:
	www.richard-brown.co.uk - Picture 1 - Picture 2 - Picture 3 - Picture 4 - Picture 5 - Picture 6 (all opens popup windows)


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	Creative:

	A high degree of skill and experience in conceptual and idea generation, excellent visualisation abilities across a wide range of software, methodology and platforms coupled with an in-depth knowledge of usability design and its practical implementations. Creative Concepts from Brief through to production and using Design skills to ensure the highest of standards of creative for a variety of projects including: Ad Campaigns, Websites, Corporate Identities, Branding Exercises.

	Design:

	As Senior Designer my main responsibilities are the development of usability, concepts, and design solutions for print and screen based projects and creating complete visual marketing solutions for a wide variety of high profile clients. I am also responsible for the design, navigation and the production of creative assets including animations, 3d design and all graphical elements. I have a high level of knowledge and experience in designing for various media platforms including Internet, Film, 3d, Animation and Presentations.

	Illustration:

	I have gained a lot of respect as an illustrator over the past few years mainly for developing and applying my own unique style. I believe illustration gives me a great advantage when designing as it really helps me to visualise what I want to do. I have done lots of freelance projects as an illustrator and have had people buy prints of my work on my illustration website. I have also had plenty of people acknowledge the work I have done and one of the best examples of this was my interview for creative magazine Creative Behaviour.

	Flash:

	I have been working with Flash for 4 years. It is something I seriously got into when I was at university. I am interested in its animation capabilities and the fact it is very creative to design with. I have done many successful a project with this tool. My skills within Flash include 2D and 3D animation, intermediate scripting and editing, and producing some very cool designs. In the past I have had the opportunity of working with some very skilful designers / developers, which has help me to harness and push boundaries of design and animation for the web.

	3D Studio Max:

	Using this package has given me a good understanding of animation. I have done still artwork and animations both personally as well as commercially. Skills include: Model Making, Animation, and texturing, as well as Character Animation using Character Studio.

	Photoshop:

	I have done a couple of major projects in After Effects, which were both video presentations for Exhibitions. This is a programme I really enjoy being experimental with and I have used it many times to aid my animations and designs. I have used it as a general frame-grabbing tool many times to capture segments of movie to be either traced or used as gifs. It might be more convenient for me to say that I use this programme more as the Photoshop of dynamic media.

	Illustrator and Freehand:

	I started to use Illustrator 7 years ago when I was at college. Since then I have done plenty of illustration and design work using this package. I use Freehand as well but I mainly use it for print work as I like the layout features it has. One good moment when using these packages was producing illustrations and backgrounds for cartoon character Johnny Bravo's web site. Another good moment was getting plenty of recognition through my illustration website. I am a keen illustrator and often use these packages for this personally and professionally.

	After Effects:

	I have done a couple of major projects in After Effects, which were both video presentations for Exhibitions. This is a programme I really enjoy being experimental with and I have used it many times to aid my animations and designs. I have used it as a general frame-grabbing tool many times to capture segments of movie to be either traced or used as gifs. It might be more convenient for me to say that I use this programme more as the Photoshop of dynamic media.

	Dreamweaver:

	I know HTML as a language quite well but I do like to use Dreamweaver as the preferred tool to put together my websites. I always try and use Dreamweaver because it is for me the most creative HTML program on the market. More recently created a shopping cart system using Dreamweaver called Emporium Online.

	Premiere:

	I usually like to use Premiere in conjunction with After Effects. Digital video offers so many options like maybe spicing up a website with some footage or perhaps a multi-media production. Something I am looking to do is to explore the hugely exciting, if daunting, possibility of creating my own short film on my very own desktop pc at home. The thing I use mostly is its ability to quickly edit video.


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	In the past I have enjoyed working with computers both Apple Mac's and PC's and I do most of my work on them. Programs I currently enjoy using are 3D Studio Max, Flash, Illustrator, Freehand and Photoshop. I enjoy surfing the Internet because it is a very good way to communicate and get information from. Apart from computers I enjoy Football and like watching matches. I also like sketching and doing photography.

Work Experience

	The Hub - February 2002 - present day

	I am currently employed as an Interactive Designer here. I am very pleased to be working with this company as they are one of the best. I originally started as a freelancer and after successful projects stayed on permanently. My role involves design, strategy, Flash development, HTML development, video presentations and 3D animation. So far at The Hub the main client I have worked for is Vodafone. I have recently helped work on an award winning touch screen kiosk and many interactive flash demos for them.

	Freelance Work - August 2001 - February 2002

	In this time I did major Freelance projects for Hotrod Creations, Children's BBC, Kandibase and The Hub. I also briefly freelanced with DIGITAS and Blue Marble. For Hotrod I created a video intro for an exhibition at Millenium Point in Birmingham. At Childrens BBC I was responsible for the redesign of their website. With Kandibase I worked on a pitch for an online casting company and also redesigned the Kandibase website. More recently at the Hub I helped work on an award winning touch screen kiosk for Vodafone Experience stores. This project was a huge success and helped land me a permanent role with The Hub.

	Grey Interactive UK - June 1999 - August 2001

	Grey Interactive UK, 65-66 Frith Street, London. W1V 5TA Telephone: 020 7439 2686 Position: Interactive Screen Designer Duties: Screen Design, Visualisation, Idea finding, Flash Design, 3D design Contact: Helen Weddell

	Case is Altered Public House - June 1997 - June 1999

	Case is Altered Public House, Old Redding, Harrow Weald, Middlesex Telephone: 020 8954 1002 Position: Barman (part-time) Duties: Serving Drinks, Serving Food, Customer Service, Stock taking, Cleaning, Creative Chalk board design, Poster design, and business cards. Contact: Yasmin Carr

	Peterhurst Limited - June 1997 - June 1999

	Peterhurst Limited, 273 Abbeydale Road, Wembley, Middlesex. HA0 1PZ Telephone: 020 8566 7354 Position: Temporary DTP Operator (full-time) Duties: Designing business cards, letterheads, leaflets, Posters. Contact: Mark Saggs

	Glaze UK - August 1995 - April 1997

	Glaze UK, 112 Station Rd, Edgware, Middlesex Position: Telesales Canverser (part-time) Duties: Booking appointments with potential customers to have a sales representative come and show them a range of double glazing. Reason for Leaving: to concentrate on my Exams Contact: Mark Kramer

Educational History

	University of Westminster - September 1997 - June 2000

	University of Westminster, Northwick Park, Harrow, Middlesex. HA1 3TP UK Telephone: 020 7911 5000 Studied: Graphic Information Design BA Hons

	Weald College- September 1995 - July 1997

	Weald College, Harrow Weald, Middlesex. HA3 6RR Telephone: 020 8420 8888 Studied: Art & Design GNVQ Advanced Level & Image Derivation City & Guilds

	Salvatorian College - September 1991 - July 1995

	Salvatorian College, Harrow Weald, Middlesex. HA3 3DB UK 7 GCSEs at A - C grade


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Contact me on my mobile or by email
Email: richard.brown@graphicequation.co.uk
Mobile: +44 (0)7949 943677

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A selection of links from others that I admire

Creative Links
Linkdup - You will always find great creative links here (opens a new window)
Creative Behaviour - This is a creative magazine who have also interviewed me
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Peter Brown Plumbing - This is probably the coolest plumbers website on the internet and its my Dads! (opens a new window)
Nooflat - Really cool creative flash techniques (opens a new window)
Emporium Online - This is a friends e-commerce business. Buy something from it!
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Andy Foulds - A really inspiring portfolio (opens a new window)
Design Museum - One of my favourite museums.Nice site too! (opens a new window)
Surfstation - Very cool creatvie magazine (opens a new window)
Rustboy - Amazing 3D character artwork. Takes you through the process in creating the story and the character (opens a new window)
Kevin Mullins - My friends website. He is a traditional artist (opens a new window)
Fontfreak - Some really cool and usefull free fonts! (opens a new window)
123 Klan - I think this site is very funky and interesting in design (opens a new window)
richard-brown.co.uk - My website of just my illustration work (opens a new window)

Entertainment Links
Bilbanan - I like this game because it lets you build your own track to race on
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Artificial Intelligence - I love the way you can have a conversation with the computer on this
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Electrotank Minigolf - 18 very addictive holes! (opens a new window)
Shockwave 3D Pool - I love this game. Its great! (opens a new window)
Jotto - Really cute character. Very unique in style (opens a new window)
Huihui - Cool looking site. The games are just ok (opens a new window)
Joe Cartoon - Hillarious Characters! Cracks me up!. (opens a new window)
Urban Chillers - Horror community. Great use of video. (opens a new window)
Heavy - Very fun site and very mad (opens a new window)
Guinness World Records - Great site. Explains all the records too. (opens a new window)
Atom Films - I love some of the movies on here. Lots of them too! (opens a new window)
Gorillaz - Visually the best band in the world and the website doen't dissapoint either!
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Steppenwolf - This is a really well made online adventure game (opens a new window)


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