Curriculum vitae

Education

Pate’s Grammar School, Cheltenham
Doncaster School of Art 1955-1957
Intermediate Diploma in Art
Central School of Art, London 1957 -1960
National Diploma in Design (NDD) – Graphic Design, Special Level
Noteable tutors: Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Hans Schleger

Employment

1960 – 1962
Monotype Corporation – Junior Designer
1962 – 1964
Arthur Maddams Design Associates – Designer
1964 – 1967
Galeries Lafayette, Paris – Designer – Assistant Art Director
1968 – 1970
BBC TV Wales – Head of Graphics
1970 – 1972
Cardiff College of Art – Senior Lecturer
1971 – 2004
Design Systems Ltd., Cardiff – Founding Director
1981 – 1989
Matrix Communications, Cardiff – Founding Partner
1989 – 1997
StrataMatrix Ltd., Cardiff /Aberystwyth – Director
1996 – 2007
Designer/Art Editor Touchstone The magazine for Architecture in Wales
2004 – 2009
Freelance work
2009 – 2021
Pure Pleasure Records – Recreation of Vinyl record albums
from the 1950’s and onwards, over 350 completed so far.

Exhibitions

1972 Snap – National Portrait Gallery, London,
1974 Contemporary Posters – National Museum of Wales
1976 It all began with Caxton – The Design Centre, London

Collections

National Portrait Gallery, London
Welsh Arts Council
National Museum of Wales

Awards

British Poster Design Award winner 1971-1972
Elected as a member of Designers and Art Directors Association (D&ADA)
Queen’s Silver Jubilee medal 1977
Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Architects in Wales, 2002

Monotype Corporation and

Arthur Maddams Design Associates 1960 – 1964

Advert for Placard typeface in Pagina magazine.

Marketing material for Swiss drug company Roche.

Galeries Lafayette Department Store, Paris
1964 -1967

Posters announcing special events in the store.

Covers for press release packs for new couture collections.

Christmas match box gift set and gift wrap paper

Press advertising

BBC TV Wales
1968 – 1970

Various on-screen programme idents

Design Systems
1971 – 2004

Posters for SNAP art exhibition and related collateral items for Welsh Arts Council’s Art Department. British Poster Design Award winner 1971-1972.

Posters for art exhibitions and related events for the Welsh Arts Council’s Art Department.

Posters for concerts for the Welsh Arts Council’s Music Department, illustrations by Sue Shields.

Series of six “poster poems” for the Welsh Arts Council’s Literature Department, illustrations by Sue Shields.

Matrix Communications
1981 – 1989

Press release pack for a major HTV Wales documentary for the ITV network.

Welsh Water Annual Report and Accounts 1986 – 1987 and supporting literature.

Surgikos Limited, promotional literature for surgical drapes.

Sales brochure for Simbec Research Limited.

Corporate identity programme and brochure for Alex Gordon Partnership Architects.

Strata’Matrix
1989 – 1997

A2 poster for Exeter Museum designed to be cut into 4 A4 posters for use on the city’s buses.

Advertising and marketing brochure for prosthetic hip replacements. Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics Limited.

Resource pack for Education Unit, Arts Council of Great Britain.

S4C Annual Report & Accounts 1989/1990. Marking the end of the first year of their new strategy. The illustrations are by Ray Nicklin and are designed to represent S4Cs new involvement with European capitals, these two represent Paris and Berlin.

S4C Annual Report & Accounts 1990/1991. Marking the end of the first year of their new strategy. Sue Packer’s photographs of one-year-old babies were chosen to symbolise the beginning of this new era.

Branding and collateral publicity material for the Celtic Experience at Plas Machynlleth. For the Celts the head was not only a prized heroic trophy but also a profoundly religious symbol, representative of a deity and suggestive of supernatural powers and wisdom.

Cover design plus supporting material, for Cardiff Bay Opera House (now titled Cardiff Millennium Centre) Architectural Competition. The Competition was originally won by Zaha Hidid but she and her design were subsequently dismissed.

Designer / Art Editor Touchstone magazine
1996 – 2007

Typical cover and inside spread. The brief was that the cover didn’t look like a typical Architectural Magazine. Hence me putting the contents list on the cover. This example was the last of 17 Issues.