Artfully Illuminating Design. That's what I do.

Holiday Apartment Rental, Nice Riquer

I was approcahed to build a site to advertise a rental apartment in Nice. The apartment needed a basic booking form which emailed the owner with details of the enquiry (completely built with the latest ajax technology), a calendar to display all enquiries and bookings at a glance, a photo gallery and various other touches to create a compelling advert and an easy way to make a booking/enquiry, all database driven.

http://nice-apartment.info

Formula One, Hockenheim Germany, Photography

Another photo shoot taken with some of the fastest cars on the planet. I travelled this time to Hockenheim for the 2010 German Grand Prix and it was amazing, and I got some great shots of some amazing cars including the now legendary Bugatti Veyron, which made a surprise appearance.

Gallery coming soon

Manchester United vs Chelsea, Community Shield, Photography

A high profile game, a high profile venue. Manchester United vs Chelsea was the first competitive game of the season and the Community Shield was one which neither team wanted to give up.

I ended up photographing the event and got some great shots like the one shown. It's dramatic lighting and emotion on the players faces is what makes the photo.

TwiPho, Twitter Photo Search, Web Development

TwiPho was an experiment. A project which has turned out very popular online. It also has a mobile version in the works due for release.

I had words with a mate who said "we should create a mashup". Anyway, I came up with this concept of finding images in the twitter search, extracting those images and allowing people to retweet them, view them, save them, email them, do whatever they want with them.

8 hours later... http://twipho.net/

Formula One, Silverstone, Photography

I'm a BIG F1 fan. Probably a little too enthusiastic for the sport but I'm hooked.

Last year I took my SLR along to photograph the cars, which is no mean feat. The cars were doing upwards of 180mph and trying to get a clean and crisp photo of something moving at that speed is extremely difficult. I managed to get a few great shots, including this one of Lewis Hamilton. I'm hoping to get more great shots at future F1 races (I go every year).

Gallery coming soon

Cliffe Kennels, Web Development

A local boarding kennels needed a revamped website to attract more customers and help with the re homing of cats and dogs. I went along, did some photography of some dogs that may melt your heart, and developed this website. I developed a simple admin interface which allows her to upload a photo (which is automatically resized) and information about the dog. It's then auto emailed to a selection of dog re homing sites so they can list it too! Easy peasy. Dennise said "It is very easy to use, must be as I can do it!"

http://cliffekennels.co.uk/

De Reis van Europa, Web Development

De Reis Van Europa (The Tour of Europe) is a website built specifically for that. Three of us on the trip are of the creative type and we wanted to "create" something to blog for our families and friends while touring Europe in nothing less than a beast! Our hired motorhome named "dorris". If you see her (PN08ETK) give her a wave and say that Mark, Ky, Dan, Jan, Fish and Mike say hi...

http://drve.co.uk/

Result Group Inc, Web Development and Brand awareness

Result Group are the largest rental software company in the world. The build high class software for companies such as Volvo, Bechtel and Mobile Mini dealing with customers worth billions of dollars in revenue.

I was entrusted with rebuilding their poor branding giving them a fresh new look and creating them a world class corporate website. I spent three months working solid on this project and spent a full year working there on a University Placement. It was a great experience giving me great knowledge of how a large company like Result Group works.

Note: I no longer have control over the site as their in house design team now deals with it. It may therefore differ from my screenshot. http://www.rentalresult.com/

Wines2Savour, Web Development

Wines2Savour is a locally run business dealing with wines from across the globe. Paul and Tom needed a website which oozed sophistication and elegance.

I based the design around a wine label and added in a deep red colour commonly associated with wine. The site looks and feels like a wine website should with a very complex wine search engine allowing administrators to easily add and remove wines at will. The wine search is the sites little party piece.

http://wines2savour.co.uk/