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Website for a pastry shop in Beijing, fashion brand in Shanghai, architecture shop; Graphical bus map with over 300 routes. I design products (print, packaging, web, iPhone and iPad apps) that are fit for purpose that strives to be clean and simple. I am also a certified ScrumMaster with experience of working ...

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IFMA Shanghai

IFMA Shanghai is part of the global International Facility Management Association which "... is the world’s largest and most widely recognized international association for professional facility managers, supporting more than ...

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Roots for (Shanghai) – logo design

Roots for (Shanghai) is a non-profit that provides teaching skills aimed at local Chinese people who are in the lower-wage-earning bracket. Inspired by the ...

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iPad UI design and prototype made with jQuery

I had collaborated with a team and designed the User-interaction for an iPad application. I made a UI prototype with xHTML, CSS and javascript to work on the iPad.

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Fulton Place

I am delighted to design and make the website for Shanghai's quintessential British restaurant. Fulton Place is definitely a fun project to do - their logo and theme is one of the first thing ...

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Madison Restaurant Website

This is a web-site currently in production for Madison Restaurant on Dongping Lu. The screenshot is a temporary holding page design - and also forms the basis of the overall website. Austin Hu ...

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RabbitMQ in Action

This is another site made for Alvaro Videla - using CSS to style an xHTML template on Github. www.rabbitmqinaction.com

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Giving Tree – Drupal theming for charity website

This website was made for an amazing charity called Giving Tree - their aim ...

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Simple styling – Big Improvement

The images are before and after screenshots of the design for Alvaro Videla's blog. He's the geek I worked previously with on FireSymfony with.

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Levi’s AirDry – Care to Air Design Challenge

Levi's AirDry is a lightweight yet sturdy system that utilizes the space at the top of windows (Heat rises right? Even more efficient drying). Most drying frames on the market are free standing and takes up that valuable space in ...

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Clickable Wireframes

The following example is what I would consider a high-fidelity wireframe. I have used Flash to create a clickable wireframe for an imaginary project called Couchpotatoes. It is a community where couchpotatoes can find other couchpotatoes! Here, I have planned: layout, primary/secondary/tertiary information (position will affect this, also use of ...

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Past colleagues + friends’ recommendations

I'll leave this post up but I didn't get the position because Couchsurfing decided they were not going to hire anyone for it. I think the recommendations can still serve as a testimony so I'll leave this up.

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FireSymfony Toolbar | Web

I made the proposal for the website for FireSymfony - a toolbar within Firebug for for developers who use the Symfony framework for building websites. I also designed and coded CSS/xHTML for the toolbar - ...

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Xiao Yu Cartoons

Xiao Yu Cartoons are concept cartoons - which made fun out of those office situations probably only your colleagues will understand.

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LBS Labels Specialist Int’l Ltd.

I directed the content, designed the whole website including icons and coded (CSS/xHTML and implemented some jQuery slider effects) in this website and also taken some ...

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Caring+

I designed a wide range of products for Caring+ (Caringplus) including logo, brand design, web, packaging, graphics for folding binoculars, point-of-sale displays, disposable cameras, leaflets, business card....

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Dekko order form | line art

I gave myself some requirements for this design: clear graphic/information communication; in black and white (so that small company can print from printer as need be or photocopy or keep cost low in bulk printing); incorporates discount voucher to ...

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Dekko Case

For this project, I had designed the 'CASE' logo, taken the photography, directed the concept and animated the flash. I had been helping with Dekko - a fab design and manufacture company ever since I had partaken in an university exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham. At the time, I had ...

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Interactive Maths!

Who said learning Maths* was boring? Believe it or not, I had studied it up to A-level. These examples of Maths classes were made for Nelson Thornes publishers, designed to be used in interactive whiteboards (though screen is just as good). *... and no, 'Maths' with an 's' is not a ...

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Intertalk | 英国通

Intertalk and 英国通 (Ying Guo Tong in Chinese Mandarin) had been built using Dreamweaver, Flash by me and also PHP with a database (backend and PHP coded by someone ...

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Saints, Sinners & Secret Agents

Makes me laugh each time I look at these 3D renderings I had made. Why had I made them? It was during ...

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Town and Country Gas

In the web-design process, I find that a lot of work goes into sitting with the client to really understand their business, their USP (unique-selling-points) and then communicating this by graphics, layout, copywriting and organization so that we present all the special points clearly for the end client. The owner's ...

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Rudyard Lake Steam Railway

If the name 'Rudyard' reminds of you Rudyard Kipling, it's because he had been born there (or conceived?) Rudyard Lake is a beautiful lake and has a miniature steam railway running along the side of it.

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Destroy the Snowman!

At Christmas time, people love to send e-cards, I had wanted to make one with a slight difference. I came up with concept, illustrated, animated in Flash - this little 'game' had taken over 1 week to make.

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Good for your potential!

I filmed this in WangFuJing in Beijing during my first stay in mainland China in 2002. If you've been there, you'll know that the food street's highlights are many different types of food on sticks - or many types of insects and living creatures to be precise.

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Pets Welcome Hotels

I designed and made the whole prototype: the concept, illustrated, animated and coded everything in Flash (so that they would all be vector graphics for fast download times and ease of manipulation for animating).

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Flexible furniture concepts

These were some designs made during my university years - the idea being furniture that was simple and flexible. I personally like small apartments/spaces because it requires you to be creative in how you manage, plan and design products that can be flexible and multi-purpose. I had produced the concepts, ...

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Mu-lan Theatre Company

I had helped Mu-lan Theatre Company in London with a very simple website back in the days of IE4!

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Hoojit beermats concept & design

I had created the concepts and graphics for 3 sets of beermat designs to promote Hoojit shopping comparison website.

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Hoojit e-Shopping Comparison Site Tour

After graduation, I had worked as a web-designer for an e-commerce shopping comparison site. This was a tour made in Flash (it was Flash 4 at the time!). I had designed, animated with some actionscript. Of course, flash has come a long, long way from then. Do you remember syntax ...

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Virtual Takeaway

'The Golden Dragon' was a part of my final year project at University. It was actually used on a touchscreen monitor within a whole installation with curtains made of chains of rice and chips (real food no kidding!).

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Touchscreens UI and Kiosk Design

I had worked for a few months on some interactive touchscreen designs (some had been used at Trafford Centre, Manchester, UK). I designed both the interface (which was where I started learning about HTML - no CSS or xHTML at the time).

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Digital Art: Faye Wong

If you know Faye Wong, maybe you will recognize this - it's one of her album covers from her Live Concert. I had drawn this in the Hong Kong playground design office. Was it part of the work? Well em... I was trying out the new digital tablet with Photoshop! I ...

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Playground designs in Hong Kong

Before going to university, I had worked in Hong Kong for over a year as a playground designer.

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Painting (cubism)

I had painted this during my A-levels when I was 16-18. Unfortunately this is the only image I have of it. Looks small on here but the painting was about 2m tall! You can see a bit of the ...

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