Experience
2009
I designed an iPhone app for The Guardian newspaper which was released December 2009. There was widespread acclaim for the aesthetics, architecture, UX and UI, and the app was number one selling app on the app store for it’s first week. It was and remains number 1 selling paid news app in the UK, and in several other countries.
I worked on the brief with the product manager, wireframed the app, detailed specific UI behaviour and designed final screens. My role extended to direction of development at various stages, and ensuring that the UI worked as specified. I also played an active role in developing Guardian mobile strategy.
2008
I devised and designed a Film review iPhone app, with The Guardian being the intended client. I designed it from concept and user journeys through to screens, and made a demo using Keynote (which I showed at Apple). A small development company helped me to build a working prototype. I worked closely with the developer at every stage.
2005-9
The Guardian: Media, Society, Education, Technology, Office hours: Redesign and art direction of 5 weekly specialist sections, after the transition to Berliner format in 2005
As art director of many sections I was working across multiple teams and regularly lliasing with several editors. I commissioned photography, illustration and information graphics, working closely with picture editors and artists to get the best results.
I designed key spreads and pages, and would oversee each team, suggesting and supervising changes needed on pages. My role was also to maintain and update the design of the sections.
Our approach on the Guardian was to offer the readers many ways into a page, therefore paying careful attention to the detail of furniture and navigation devices. All the detailed work was set within a carefully paced product which resulted from collaboration between myself and section editors.
Guardian Weekly Redesign and initial art direction, transforming it from a tabloid to half berliner (magazine) format
2000-5
Art Director Guardian Newspaper: Redesign and art direction of 6 weekly tabloid specialist sections, Education, Society, Online, Life (science) Jobs & Money, the Editor
Other Guardian publications
Public magazine, redesign; Big Brother partwork (about surveillance); The Giving List (annual listings of company donations to charity); Guardian Racing cards (detailed tabular information about horse races) ; Observer sports stats (tabular sports results, fixtures);
2005
Maroc Soir, a new afternoon newspaper for a Moroccan city. For Cases i Associats, Barcelona.
1999-2007 Bookmarks publications
Material Girls: book cover; Striking Back: book cover and content. Book of articles and news photography about the Miners strike of 1984-5; Articles of resistance: book cover. A collection of journalism
1995-2000
Money Observer magazine. Art Editor: Extensive redesign in 1999, which was very well received and led to a substantial circulation boost. Used type from the Font Bureau