A little about me...

I have been a design professional for 8 years now. I have fulfilled many roles, from web design, print and reprographics to creative graphic design. Design is a passion with me, no detail is overlooked and I take pride in my work. To date I have provided design for Renault, The Rank Group, Hardys and Hansons, The WJS Group, Rittal Ltd, Hard Rock Casino and many others.

To date I am employed by PHD, a leading Sheffield based design agency. During my 4 years at PHD, I have been responsible for point of sale and membership promotions for the Rank Group Gaming divison, catalogues and marketing for Rittal Ltd as well as any other creative project that crosses my desk. In addition to this I do alot of work on the marketing and advertising for Ideasbynet.com, a business gift company also run by PHD.

Prior to that I worked for Page Whelan Design & Print where I was responsible for the design output of the studio and soon I was put in charge of the reprographics side of the studio too. I learned alot about design for print and the correct way to set-up jobs for optimum printing quality

I started my career with Johnson Consultancy in Grenoside, Sheffield. I was employed designing and programming websites for the company as this had been my speciality at HND. In 2002 I was made redundant from Johnson's and decided to make a change and move to the more fast paced environment of the professional print studio.

Professional Skills...

Creative concepts
Illustrations and visuals
Artworking and print
Packaging design and branding
Layout and editorial design
Photographic retouching
Corporate identity & Branding
Web site design
HTML/XHTML/CSS
W3C and DDA compliance
Makes good tea!

Software Skills...

QuarkXpress 7
Photoshop CS3
Illustrator CS3
InDesign CS3
Dreamweaver CS3
Freehand MX
Fireworks CS3
Acrobat Professional CS3
Flash CS3
Mac OS X 10.5
Windows XP

Contact Information

Telephone: 07972 853 808
Email: nik@nikworld.co.uk
Address: Available on request

You can also find me on MSN, add nick@phdi.co.uk to your contact list.

With regard to unsolicited contact, please don't add me to your mailing lists or try and sell me things... pretty please!