My life’s work
I’ve always been told that “If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well…” I prefer to go one further and create something that I’m proud enough to shout about!
University of Reading
2013–14 • Design & front-end • Custom CMS
I started work in the Digital Development team at the University of Reading in early June 2013, and just over seven months, a lot of hard work, and a few too many coffees later we launched the new, and improved reading.ac.uk.
Hotspur Related
2014 • Design & front-end • Wordpress
As a life-long Tottenham fan, when Ross approached me about creating a website to accompany his Twitter account – of which I was a avid follower – it was an insta-yes!
St George’s JCR 2014
2014 • Design & front-end • Static Gulp build
As the 2013 team moved on, the 2014 team came in; Joe – a first year when I was president – now president himself came to me about updating the website for the new team.
Fueled Press page
2015 • Front-end • Middleman build
At Fueled, we get talked about a lot, whether people are reviewing our latest kick-ass app, singing praise about the Fueled Collective, or just waxing lyrical about Rameet’s beard… having a repository for all of those articles was a must!
Lion and Lamb Lodge
2014 • Branding, design & front-end • Anchor CMS
I’m always down for taking on projects that fascinate me, and the Lion and Lamb Lodge of Freemasons did just that. I built a simple, type-focused site to help promote their lodge digitally.
St George’s JCR 2013
2013–14 • Design & front-end • Static Grunt build
Having built the previous two sites for the committee while I was a member, and then a president, the new team got me back in to revamp, and refresh it for the new year.
Middleplate
2015 • Design & front-end • Middleman & ruby
At Fueled and on my site, Middleman is the workhorse that makes it all possible. Middleplate is a Middleman boilerplate with extra features and blogging ready out of the box.
Other work
This is a range of work from small freelance work, to university briefs, to side projects for a laugh, and anything in between.
Oxford Times
2013 • Design & front-end • PHP
News can, and is regularly accessed across a wide range of devices. This project focused on how to best display modular, dynamic information across a range of screen sizes, and was my most, and least favourite brief from my entire degree. It kept me up at night, but I poured my heart and soul into it; and ultimately earning an Examiners’ Award for the project.
Although this was only ever a university project, you can still have a play with the semi-functional prototype or look over the faux-launch poster.
LEGO not Legos
2013 • Design & front-end • Static Gulp build
legonotlegos.com was an idea born out of a simple domain sale from (mt) and a personal hatred for the incorrect pluralisation of LEGO. Legos is not a thing, 99% of the time people mean LEGO bricks – “Ouch. I stepped on the LEGOs bricks!”.
This was purely for fun, but now and again I take to Twitter armed with the #LEGOnotLegos hashtag and the everlasting pain of standing on the damn bricks as a kid!
Monica Rossi
2014 • Design & front-end • Anchor CMS
Monica Rossi – my cousin – came to me about sorting out a few out of date images on her site that she couldn’t change, but the site was visually outdated and I took it as an opportunity to practice a few JS bits and create site’s image lightbox from scratch.
She’s a fantastic freelance make-up artist so be sure to give her a shout if you’re in need of one!
The Boston Project
On going • Typeface design
TY3TYP – Typeface Design – was one of my favourite modules I studied at University. Tutored by Gerry Leonidas, we each designed a thin-on-the-ground typeface.
When I graduated, I wanted to carry on doing it so I kicked off the Boston Project. Currently the only look at it is on Dribbble, but creating a case-study for this is on my to do list!
Priory Park Dentalcare
2010 and 2014 • Design & front-end • Static HTML
This was one of my first site’s that I built in a professional capacity, and was for my then-girlfriend’s dad who owns a private dental practice in St. Albans.
This site is soon to change to a static Middleman build, so until then we’ll keep the link under wraps; although Google will show you the way if my SEO work went to plan!