Growing up I’ve always been drawing, right up to Secondary School (Stanley Tech, 1994-1999) where I was introduced to art more properly and also design technology. Here I explored all areas of art and worked on technical drawings and created scale models in DT. While at school I decided I really wanted a career in some form of art and design. After completing my GCSE’s I continued my education at college.

I started a BTEC National Diploma in Graphic Design at College (Croydon College, 1999-2001) the first year of this course was very traditional, with all our design work done by hand. We also done projects in still life drawing, animation, life drawing and photography (my first experience of developing photos in a darkroom) We were introduced to computer based graphic design at the end of the first year and this continued throughout the whole of the second year, but we were encouraged to continue with traditional methods as well. At college I started using Adobe Photoshop, Quark and Macromedia Freehand. At the end of the course I wanted to explore computer based design more, so I started my search for a University Degree.