Projects Group UK website

Projects Group website designed and built on behalf of Chalk Architecture.

Visit the site here.

Tjarks & Tjarks Design ltd

The international packaging design agency Tjarks & Tjarks approached me to design and construct a new website to showcase their ever-expanding portfolio of work earlier this year. The brief was to keep the site as clean and simplistic as possible whilst simultaneously complimenting the high-standards of design achieved by the agency.

The site is a mix of HTML & Flash in order that it can be found by the more popular search engines and to allow the portfolio section to run smoothly and with clarity.

Visit Tjarks & Tjarks here.

M&S – Christmas

Christmas has come at M&S and it was my job to redesign the existing pages (of which there were many) to make sure they flowed into one another as seamlessly as possible. The Christmas creative this year was a mix of e-commerce pages (as above) and editorial pages like these two below.

The Checklist can be seen here.

The ‘Top 5′ section was designed as a template so that the merchandising team could update the section on semi-regular intervals with any kind of content they required be it jewellery, slippers or food.

Top 5 can be found here.

All in all over 500 assets were created by the team based on my initial designs, (over twice as many as last year I’m told), and the project was brought in on time.

FT.com – Top Ten Formula One Tracks

James Allen (ITV’s lead F1 commentator and correspondent for FT.com) wanted a Flash based piece to run alongside an article published on the website of the Financial Times charting his top ten Formula 1 race tracks. This design had to fit within the current FT.com interactive template but also bring across the excitement and pace of the F1 season. For this presentation I had to trawl image libraries to find relevant and visually striking images as well as recreating the tracks themselves in illustrated form.

The piece was built using Flash & Flash Actionscript 2.

To view James Allen’s Top Ten Tracks click here.

FT.com – Thirst For Food

Flash based editorial presentation designed for FT.com Interactive incorporating video and an audio visual slideshow to show Worldwide agriculture policies and their effect on water usage and availability.

The finished piece can be found here.

M&S – Autograph Designers

M&S have always been justifiably proud of their collaborations with some of the most respected names in fashion and the menswear department were keen to bring their ranges to the fore with the creation of the Autograph Designers section on the site. Timothy Everest and Mark Powell mix the traditional and the modern to create suits of unsurpassed quality whilst every pair of Jeffrey-West shoes features a design ‘twist’ that stands out from the everyday. A mix of editorial showcases and product pages, the designs were created to evoke the high-quality design traditions of the quintessentially British tailoring experience but at an affordable off-the-peg price.

Discover the Autograph Designers here.

M&S – Made to Measure

Menswear felt that the M&S Made to Measure shirts section needed a refresh and the job of designing its new look fell to me. Despite the high-quality made-to-measure service provided, the team felt the new page should reflect the more modern style of tailoring favoured at M&S.

With this page I tried to create a more handmade/sketchbook style, focusing on the large range of fabrics, fits and details that the buyer would choose from in order to design his perfect shirt.

Visit M&S Made to Measure shirts here.

M&S – Per Una e-mail

The hugely successful M&S brand of Per Una wanted a marketing e-mail created to showcase their spring collection. The brief was to produce a striking design that showed Per Una’s high-quality design ethic.

Click here for a full-sized version.

M&S – A Cooks Tour of Italy

To run alongside M&S’s new Taste of Italy range and in conjunction with the launch of their new television advert, these pages were created to give the user some in-depth information regarding the new range of ready-meals available.

M&S – Wine Shop & Tasting Videos

These pages were designed to launch M&S’s wine expert Chris Murphy’s wine diary & tasting videos section. Feedback from previous wine pages showed that viewers liked to be able to see the wine bottles and their labels in order recreate the tactile nature of choosing wine in an off-license or wine merchant. The designs focused heavily on the award winning wines and the exclusivity of many of the ranges stocked by M&S.

The pages can be viewed here.