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Hi, I'm Philip Spence, a London based artist, web and graphics designer. Educated with a BSc degree in Cybernetics and Virtual Worlds and armed with a passion for creativity.
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Contact
Should you wish to contact me about a job or for any other infomation then send an email to info@philipspence.com Close
Web Design
I have over 4 years commercial experience, with a belief and expertise in accessible and usable websites. Not only can I design websites from conception and design but see it through to completion writing clean code using HTML and CSS alongside developing advanced features in PHP. I don't believe in reinventing the wheel, to that end I'm also skilled at JQuery for JavaScript and AJAX, Drupal for large scale social networks and Wordpress for blogging/small scale CMS sites. Close
Accessibility
I have a firm belief in creating accessible and usable websites, both to government and W3C standards. Those which degrade gracefully so that websites can be viewed across all platforms from PC to mobiles.
Working for London Gifted & Talented I was part of the team which won The e-learning age Public Sector Team of the Year award in 2007. Close
Web Design Portfolio
//Race Online 2012 (Design only)
Freelance work on behalf of Public Zone. Race Online is aimed at businesses to help get all of Britain digitally connected by 2012. Co-designed with another designer, based on wireframes and key graphical elements (logo & colour scheme). End result was photoshop designs of each key page ready for developers.
//Stag & Dagger (Build only)
Freelance work for VICE. Stag & Dagger is a 2 day festival in London and Glasgow. Built as a Wordpress theme using XHTML, CSS, PHP and Cufon for custom fonts.
//The Old Blue Last (Build only)
Built for VICE from Photoshop files. The Old Blue Last site was creating using XHTML, CSS and jQuery.
//VICE MP3 Player
As part of my work for VICE, I created this Flash MP3 player, using AS2 and XML.
//The Specials (design only)
The Specials is an online docu-soap, shortlisted for 2 Webby awards 2010. Design only, specifically for a Drupal site using Photoshop.
//Holborn Community Association
Holborn Community Association provides a range of core services and special projects to the community in central London. This project covered design through to development using XHTML, CSS and PHP.
//Ninja Bunny
Designed for myself, Ninja Bunny is a regular webcomic with several thousand readers a month. The website was built in Wordpress, using XHTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery with an intergrated shop using PayPal.
//Karrie Fransman
Karrie Fransmans is a comic strip illustrator, this website was built in Wordpress with XHTML and CSS. Flash elements by Jon Plackett.
//Provence Property and Events
Provence Property and Events project combined logo/brand design alongside the developement of an easy to maintain website. This project covered design through to development using XHTML, CSS and PHP.
//Studentnet
Studentnet is a large scale socical website, designed for students who participated in LG&T events to share their creativity and knowledge. Developed on Drupal it features, blogs, forums, displays RSS feeds from a variety of news sources and intergrates into Flickr and YouTube services.
//Summer of Talent
Designed for LG&T as part of their Summer of Talent educational programme showcasing sports, film and art.
//LG&T Networks
LG&T ran a series of e-learning network websites developed in Drupal, allowing 800 teachers from around London to share ideas and resources on a varierty of subjects. The culmination of this lead to winning the e-Learning 'Team of the Year' award 2007.
//e-TASC (front end)
Redesign of e-TASC's HTML front end, containing turorial files and management sections.
Graphic Design
I have over 3 years commercial experience in graphics design, including a diploma in Graphics Skills from the University of the Arts London. Versed in using Photoshop, Illustrator, film and digital cameras and the good old pen and pencil I am able to create a wide range of design styles and able to translate them to both print and digital mediums.
Projects that I have worked on range from logo, package, character and booklet design. Close
Graphic Design Portfolio
//Holborn Community Association mascots
Captain Sucker, Bernard the bunny and Jojo as the results of a workshop I ran for the Holborn Community Association which encouraged children between 5-14 to create a mascot for them. Using bodyparts that I created the children cut, coloured and glued to create their designs. Captain Sucker and Jojo are two of the childrens designs, Bernard the bunny was my own example design.
//Vault Dweller's Survival Perk Pack
A free mod developed for the hit game Fallout 3, this pack contains 10 new graphical icons, some based on very old low resolution graphics from previous games, while others are completely new. Also developed for this mod was a downloadable PDF manual.
//Christmas card
For Christmas 2008 I designed and printed my own Christmas cards for close friends and family.
//Fox & Apple logo
Fox & Apple, a restaruant discount scheme for university students, needed a logo themed about victoria/edwardian decadence but with a twist.
//Fox & Apple business card
As part of the Fox & Apple commision a reverse side design was needed for their business cards which featured the logo design on the front.
//REAL Booklet
Design of the REAL Project, end of year 2 booklet. A 47 page document designed in Adobe InDesign.
//eLearning Poster
LG&T ran a series of e-learning network websites which culminated in winning the e-Learning 'Team of the Year' award 2007, this poster was used as part of the presentation given during the award selection process.
//StudentNet Logo
Studentnet, a socical network for young students to colaborate, share, create and explore new ideas.
//REAL Logo
A subdivision of LG&T, REAL (Realising Equality and Achievement for Learners) needed a complete brand design, from logo, letter heads, event invitations and website.
//Summer of Talent Leaflet
To coincide with the Summer of Talent educational event, a flyer was created and sent out to every London school asking them to participate in the event, this was designed alongside the website to maintain a consistent identy.
//Network Icons
During 2007–2008 LG&T ran a series of e-learning network websites used by over 800 teachers many of which are technological unaware, not knowing what a blog is, therefore friendly characters needs to be designed, each representing a different aspect of the curriculum such as maths, science, englishh, early years, level 5+, level 7+, e-TASC and Philosophy.