mike walter smith: freelance graphic designer and illustrator

Mike is a graphic designer and illustrator with fifteen years' freelance and corporate experience. He specialises in brochures, technical publications and book design. His original qualification was in Information Design, so he has a special affinity with anything that explains, such as maps, diagrams or presentations. He will also translate Photoshop layouts to HTML and CSS, and convert your old table-based web pages.

Mike has a straightforward no-nonsense approach that clients find refreshing. He is happy to work in-house as temporary cover or for a special project. He lives in Leicestershire, UK.

Note: He has a separate website for his children's book illustration work.

Tel: 07734 107747

Email: mike AT sheepshank.org

Blog: blogshank.com

recent projects

Web design for Rising to the Challenge, for the East of England Development Agency (2012 Olympics)

Website design for Rising to the Challenge, part of the East of England Development Agency's Olympic programme

Branding and web design for Town & Country Veterinary Centre

Branding, logo design and website design for Town and Country Veterinary Centre

The RiverCare Volunteer Handbook— sample instructional pages below

Instructions on how to use a grappling hook, from the RiverCare handbook, showing explanatory cartoons, p1 Instructions on how to use a grappling hook, from the RiverCare handbook, showing explanatory cartoons, p2

Letters from The Wordless Alphabet, an experiment in silent sequences for my blog

Letters from the Wordless Alphabet, an ABC where you have to guess the words.

River clean-up event posters for RiverCare, the environmental charity

Whoover swans poster advertising the great cam clean-up. Adobe Illustrator. Balsam Bash poster for RiverCare, advertising weed clean-up. Adobe Illustrator.

Poster for Cambridge's Open Boat Day, for Camboaters Community Association

Poster for Cambridge Open Boat Day, featuring vector illustrations made in Illustrator

Evie's Kitchen: a 250-page recipe book for RawCreation Ltd.

Spread from Evie's Kitchen -- a 250-page recipe book

Posters, newsletters and sales material for Cambridge cycle couriers Outspoken Ltd.

A poster, newsletter and postcard for Outspoken cycle couriers

A 250-page Teacher's Guide to phonetic-based spelling, for Letterland International Ltd.

Spreads from a teacher's guide to phonetic spelling, for Letterland International Ltd.

websites

University of cambridge veterinary school trust web site Bradtec web site wurl web site

University of Cambridge Veterinary School Trust

Bradtec Decon Technologies

Wurl Windpower Solutions

Samantha Cooper web site Hope appeal web site All World Knowledge web site

Samantha Cooper Make-up Artist

HOPE Appeal for Animals with Cancer

All World Knowledge

corporate design

ARM Innovation magazine cover Investor relations document with charts and graphs mailer from thorlabs

 

inside spread from corporate brochure brochure front cover from courier company - stress free deliveries

© Copyright Mike Smith 2010. Images may be used on other sites if credited and linked back.