Work for Electronic Arts..
From May 2008 I have been the Online Content Coordinator for Electronic Arts UK. The main tasks for this role involve creating graphics in Photoshop and the use of a Content Management System to add news, banners and product information to EA Websites including EAGames.co.uk, FIFA09.com and TheSims2.co.uk
Mini Sites - Spore Competition
To promote the Spore Creature Creator I ran a competition on EAGames.com in collaboration with the EAUK Community to win scale models of Spore Creatures. For this I found an artist to create the models and set up a mini-site for the competition including a custom built FLV player with Spore branding to show off the user submitted videos.
I followed up the competition with a series of interviews with the winners and photos of their finished models which were published on Spore.com.
Mini Sites - Be The One
Be The One is an event run by EA as part of London Games Week. I was tasked with designing a mini-site for promoting Be The One including a television for the media page.
The logo for BTO was changed after the original layout for this site was coded meaning that the graphics had to be changed quickly. While the PR team were happy with the final site, I felt it was a compromise.
Mini Sites - Mfestival
The majority of the work for these mini-sites involved taking existing content and placing it within eagames.co.uk.
The MFestival site was created to support the EA presence at Multiplays's M Festival and the header banner was created with assets taken from the M Festival website.
I was responsible for writing the blogs and content for the site.
Mini Sites - Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 & FaceBreaker
Most of the graphical elements and content for the Tiger Woods and FaceBreaker sites were taken from the official US websites for these titles and re-formatted to fit within EAGames.co.uk. Some elements had to be created or re-created such as font styles and layouts.
A countdown to launch date was created in flash for the Tiger site. The FaceBreaker boxers page had to be recreated with HTML and CSS as the original was flash based.
Newsletters
One of my responsibilities at EA is the monthly newsletter. I have created many images for the newsletter using EA IP and existing artwork.
I was asked to re-design the Newsletter for December. Unfortunately due to time constraints for testing this version of the newsletter was never sent to customers.
October Newsletter || November Newsletter.
Skins
I have created several Bebo Skins for EA, the first being for Mirror's Edge and the most recent being for MySims Kingdom.
I have also created skins for news stories on EAGames.co.uk such as The Godfather II, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising and Skate 2.
Work for Ascension Productions..
Web Site Maintenance.
I was asked by Craig from Ascension Productions to help finish off the website while their designer was unavailable. The design was already done and in place but content needed to be added some of the layout needed to be redesigned.
I re-coded the pages from the ground up to include usability features such as resizable text and to cut down on unnecessary images. I also coded an FLV player in Actionscript to display the videos on the site which is no longer used.
Work for Lucy Stock..
Website Re-design.
Lucy Stock approached me and asked me to create a fresh new design for her web site which would use her own artwork for the graphics. I worked with Lucy to plan the site and to digitise her hand drawn graphics to be used on the site.
Due to various factors the site was put on hold but you can take a look at the work in progress.
Work for Gamerdork..
Logo Design.
Gaming podcast Gamerdork were looking for a logo, I provided the logo in various formats for them to use on their blog page and also created a button for use on iTunes.
Work for this very portfolio..
Website Re-design.
I have designed various layouts for this portfolio, not all of them made it online, this latest design was completed on the 25th of January 2009.
The site validates for HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS 2.1.
There are some issues in Internet Explorer 6 which are being worked on.
University Projects..
Final Year Project: Neuropsychological Performance Testing.
This website was coded to W3C standards with an emphasis on accessibility and incorporated a flash game coded entirely in actionscript.
The site was tested to appear the same across the majority of browsers and was tested to be accessible to those with sight impairments, learning difficulties and colour blindness.
The project was managed using DSDM. Read the report.
