a bit of background info...
Hidersine Rosins
This advert featured in The Strad magasine. It was repeated every month for a period of 18 months from Mid 2005 until the end of 2006
The advert was created from two completely seperate photographs, using Photoshop I blended the two to appear as one complete image.
After graduating from university, I landed a position as a Media/Marketing Assistant for a Musical Instrument Wholesaler in Oswestry, Shropshire. During my time there I created targeted promotional materials, advertising for industry and national press (I have had adverts appear in publications including The Strad, Guitar Buyer and Guitarist), and later designing / producing their 300 page product catalogue every eighteen months.
I also designed and built their website. This was essentially the first website I ever created and was an unbelievable learning curve. It was built using .asp and Microsoft Access (something I would never recommend now) and featured their entire product catalogue online. Sadly this site is no longer live but I will always be proud of it.
As well as this I also created several Flash micro sites designed for use
within viral marketing campaigns.
LAG Electric Guitars
This promotional sticker was designed to be given away as a ‘freebie’ at The London Guitar Show 2006.
The idea was to give people something cool that they could stick on guitar cases, folders etc. This would reinforce the familiarity of the brand. It was a huge success at the show.
Once I gained a taste for web development there was no going back,... I then specialised as a front end web developer for Alpha Design and Marketing. I built sites using W3C valid XHTML and CSS, with some JQuery added here and there for usability and as I developed, some basic php for more complex functionality.
Since then, I have also freelanced for companies in the Shropshire area and further a field including Stylus Design, The Dragon Company and AK Designs.
If you are familiar with me around the net you will recognise my avatar and know that I pop up all over the place!
I realised that I don't have one central area for all of my online profiles so this area is exactly that.
I am an active twitterer and through Twitter I hear about all sorts of tips, tutorials and blog posts, if I find them interesting I bookmark them to my Delicious account. Check out my tag cloud to find a subject of interest.
I have started to upload some of the photos I have taken to my flickr account now, and I am also on facebook.
Find me on facebookMusic is a huge part of my life. I listen to music at work, at home, in the car, pretty much anywhere I can. Recently I came across a new music player called Spotify.
Spotify is essentially an online music library which you create an account for. What I like about it is that because everything is stored online it means that you can access your playlists from any computer that has Spotify installed just by signing in.
The other thing I like about Spotify is you can share your playlists with other people, I am rubbish at creating my own playlists so I find websites like www.sharemyplaylists.com great. Here are some of my favourite playlists. Enjoy!
- Kirsty's music to work to - by me!
- Ultimate Grunge Playlist - by ZepHead
- Guitar Hero Smash Hits - by olegafx
- Rock Band 2 - by codeeater
- 80's - by christianse
- Chillout - by ryanajarett