Fighting Tiger

One of the reasons I haven’t been popping up so much on battlecat lately is because I’ve been spending most of my computer time doing freelance work for a few very lovely people. I was so lucky that day that I walked down Elizabeth St in Croydon just after quitting games work - I got a weekend job in my favourite store and from that I landed a bunch of freelance web and graphics work for clients based off Queen St.

A lot of the work I’ve done for Bek at one small room and sproutdesign is yet to see the light of day as we’re waiting for fabric to get printed up and content to be added to the website. But I can show off the Angel Chorus card which I based from an original screen print made by fabric designer Pamela Walker in the 1970s. You’ll have to scroll down a little to see the cards on this page.

Emily at The Purely Cotton Co (5 Elizabeth St, Croydon) asked me to get the website up and running for her organic and fair trade cotton shop. The website design is based on a look and feel developed by Carly of Nest Studio and is now working (credit card transactions are still to be setup).

Ben and Dom (owners of the Queen St Cafe) have just opened a new restaurant, Bistro Dom, at 24 Waymouth St in the city. They asked me to take the graphic identity by Grant Jorgenson and turn that into a basic website for them. Luckily this job’s required me to eat some of the food at the restaurant, so I can highly recommend Bistro Dom as a lovely inner city lunch venue.

Phew! Skills like freelance time management and business confidence are still works in progress for me, but I’ve learnt so much over the last 4 months! Now of course I need to get radelai.de up and running before I leave the country and maintain that as well as do some other freelance work while I’m away.

And to think that I thought I was giving up IT for good when I left Krome… Ah well, the universe obviously wants me still to be a geek. That I guess, is ok.