A Little Bit About Me

Hi, my name is Rob Palmer, I am 26 and I am a web & graphic designer based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. I started designing and drawing from a young age and most of my design skills and knowledge are self taught. I moved in to digital media while doing my Multimedia Design Course at Newcastle College. On the course we learnt a range of skills and software including Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, Cinema 4D, Flash, typography, future trends, new media and advertising.

• Photoshop
• Dreamweaver
• Flash
• QuarkXpress
• In Design
• Freehand
• Fireworks

• XHTML
• XML
• CSS
• PHP
• MySql
• Action Script
• Javascript

My Background

After graduating from my course, I had a wide portfolio of design skills which could take me into many different sectors of business. But I chose to follow the web design path. I started off going freelance while looking for a permanent job, creating websites such as Diamond Scientific.

I spent a lot of my time researching the W3C web standards and practising building sites to meet all accessibility guidelines. I then started work as a web designer back in 2006 at Blackprint, a print graphics and web design studio in Sunderland.

My role at Blackprint was heading up the web design department. I worked closely with the team of graphic designers, and I designed and developed all of Blackprints web sites. A full portfolio of work and of course the Blackprint website can be found here.

Present

I am currently employed with a company called Guerilla, forming part of the interactive media team Guerilla Interactive. My current role as front end web designer is being part of client briefings, writing proposals and helping to secure projects, designing the layouts, graphics and interactive media for the sites and building all the XHTML sites ready to be developed into our in house content management system.

I started at Guerilla Interactive on 28th July 2008 and am loving the experience so far!

So…Thanks for Reading!

Please, take a look around my site, keep upto date with my ramblings on my blog, have a look at some of my basic tutorials covering a range of media, or stop by my portfolio for a look at some of my latest web design work…And don’t be a stranger!