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EMAIL martintaylor@aardback.co.uk CONTACT 01202 859788 . 07980 545412

 

All about me

I am a graphic designer by profession and started as an office junior work in a design and photography studio in Bournemouth in 1981, were I previously did a work experience from school for a few weeks. I was intending going to college to learn all about botanical illustration but was offered a full time job working in at the studio. I never went to Art College so everything I had learnt in the past was at school. After many years working there I decided to go self employed as a freelance designer which lasted 3 years and was offered a job in a large advertising agency. After various design jobs me and my wife had the chance to travel around America for two months so I took the opportunity and went. When I came back I had to go freelance again but soon found work. I have been Freelance ever since and presently working part time at a school teaching GCSE photography passing on my knowledge of photography and photoshop.
Working in all the different studios is were I picked up all my inspiration and techniques seeing other artists work as well as other freelancers bringing in their portfolios and showing their own work.

This has led onto all the art I am doing to this day and thoroughly enjoying ……still
One thing………..My main ambition…………this would be to take this latest style and do an exhibition from my diary and sketches of my two months in America when me and my with travel about 4,000 miles…..yes in two months.

I have countless photos to work from and still have my diary for every day.

  

This section is all about my years of experience in the design industry which has been alot of years....30 to be precise.
As the all about me section I started in a design studio working as an office junior then working my way up to be freelance. I have been freelance ever since 1992 after coming beack from a long break in America.

The work on this page is only a small example and dose not represent everything I can and have done. Most of the work is very recent and will display the work I am currently working on now which will vary from job to job and is always different from the last or previous job.

 

Design

My design work has varied over the years but I have had the fortune of working on some good a varied accounts.

Design work has been anything from simple logos to 300 page catalogue all of which I have produced on my own through my own client base

I have worked on projects from simple black and white yellow pages advertising to promotion and product design for William Grants Whiskey's

Also over the years I have had the fortune of working in different medias from web design to van graphics and leaflets to brochures working on many different levels and in a varity of medias

 

 
 

Recent work

I have just finished the Golf Brochure for Hamptworth and at the present putting together the golf course designs into a book as a guide around the course. This has anabled me to use INDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator