Hello, I am looking to pick up a variety of design projects, over different mediums from a variety of clients, countries and budgets. This is to satisfy creative urges and a personal need for variety, as well as paying the bills.

I feel my strength lies in my communication skills. This has made all the difference between getting a job done right the first time and the client getting what they want, rather than doing what I think they want and then having to redo it. Too many creatives will try and tell you what you "should" do. Advice is fine, but as far as taking control goes, we should do what we want to do in our own time.

I honestly enjoy a variety of work, some days I am just as happy to sit and churn out an annual report full of tables as I am to be creating a whacky animation or slick looking website. So please, don't be afraid to give me the so-called boring jobs. If you ask me, there are so many more boring jobs I could be doing than basic typesetting.

As far as experience goes, I have over 10 years of graphic and multimedia design experience in Perth, London and Sydney. Having worked with corporate teams, advertising agencies, magazines, boutique design houses and web developers I am happy to do all varieties of design work. I prefer to work from home as I am now in rural NSW, but can travel to Sydney for odd days.

I am well practiced with just about every piece of creative software and work on both a Mac and PC. Often in the past I have offered a full service to clients starting with logo and branding design, applying it to websites and advertising, organising talent and locations, shooting the photos, then writing the copy as well as arranging web hosting, domains registration, printing, packaging and now even search engine optimization. So I am certainly capable and experienced at any of the sub-categories listed, but am only allowed the check 9, so please don't feel that I haven't designed stacks of business cards over the years for example.

On top of this, I have also been running my own business for the last year selling digitally manipulated photographic artwork on canvas and gift cards, mostly at market stalls and online. Have a look at my site http://artbycowboy.com to see the art and there is a link to my design portfolio there too.

Thanks for reading, I look forward to working with you.

Mike.

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