Gareth Wild

Gareth is a highly successful and creative designer and illustrator.  He is rapidly gaining an international reputation as an art director and graphical design style leader.  In client facing roles he is personable and demonstrates empathy whilst maintaining the professional no-nonsense stance of a skilled project manager.

Web Design

Gareth is an art / graphics designer / director.  The visual style, content, typeface and layout he defines during consultation with a client is documented as a ‘visual language’ prior to being passed to a technical developer to realise as HTML based pages.  An example of his work can be found at www.guardianunlimited.co.uk (The Guardian web site) and The Internet Consortium (URL currently being changed).

Further examples of work can be found at our sub-site     http://www.apropos-site.com/

Traditional media assignments

·        Channel 4

·        Guardian Newspapers

·        SKY Magazine

·        Express Newspapers

·        Management Today Magazine

·        Dorling Kindersley

·        Oxford University Press

·        Churchill Livingstone

·        MultiMedia Corporation

·        LAPOT (Smith Kline Nephew)

·        English Heritage

Career

His career started after completing a foundation course in art and design.

This was followed by full-time employee status experience at Addenbrookes Hospital (Medical & Surgical Illustration Dept) where he undertook private commissions for several of the consultancy and surgical staff.  His work has been published and recognised in several professional papers.

He then undertook 4 year BA Honours Degree in Scientific Illustration at Middlesex University.

His first full-time role was as the medical / surgical illustrator at Barts Hospital in London.  On leaving this position -

He completed 2 further years study at the Royal College of Art resulting in a Masters Degree in Information & Technical Illustration.

He has recently been appointed as the external lecturer in graphical design with the University of East Anglia.

Experience

He worked under contract to Neville Brody of Research Studios (please ask for further info if you are not familiar with his work or reputation) for three years where he was involved in:

·        Guardian WEB site structure, specification and design

·        Salomen equipment catalogue design and production management

·        Salomen/Adidas snow board / blade graphics design

·        Printemps sports shops promotional material design

·        Taylor Made golf equipment graphics

·        ICON corporate image design

He has held the following exhibitions:

·        New Designers - Business Design Centre Islington

·        Folio Society - RCA Kensington

·        D&AD Student Expo - Royal Geographical Society Kensington

·        Royal College of Art - Design, Communication & Humanities Show

Computer Skills:

Design Applications

·        Photoshop

·        Dreamweaver

·        Fireworks

·        Adobe Photoshop

·        Freehand

·        Illustrator

·        Quark Xpress

·        + other less generic packages

Mulimedia/Moving Image Applications

·        DeBabelizer

·        Macromedia Director

·        Powerpoint

·        Premiere

·        Sound Edit

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