Who am I?

I’m a 21 year old web designer, drummer, a fan of heavy rock music, a squash player, a very mediocre footballer, a perfectionist, a lover of typography and a big big geek! I was born and raised in Essex and then moved to Dorset when I was 10 years old. I’ve been living in Dorset/Hampshire ever since and am lucky enough to live in the middle of nowhere, although I quite often complain and take it for granted!

My career started after I finished college. I was fortunate enough to be given a chance designing websites at the fabulous Giant Peach HQ in Wiltshire, and haven’t looked back since. Now I’m 3 years down the line working now at Atelier in Southampton, with a brief spell at Redweb in between. In my 3 years in the industry I’ve learnt a lot, but look forward to learning even more still and one day going it alone.

What is Authentic Style?

The main Authentic Style site acts as my portfolio site. I designed it back in late 2006 and just recently decided to add this blog to it. I thought it was about time I started writing a regular blog and I hope that some of the posts will be helpful to you, or at least interesting. Please excuse the occasional ‘real world’ post, but I do try to stick mainly to writing about design, typography, css, resources etc etc.

The future…

Who knows what the future holds, but I hope to still be involved in a hands on way with design. I have a growing interest in usability and user experience design, which I would like to pursue further in the coming years. I think that just about sums me and this site up, so in the meantime please check out some of my other posts and subscribe to the RSS feed to stay up to date.

Keep in contact…

If you’d like to, feel free to follow me on Twitter, or check me out on LinkedIn.