Dave Pickstone
| Website Developer | Animator | IllustratorWelcome to my personal portfolio site. Scroll down the list to see my personal and commercial work, from current projects to the start of my designing career (well, until University at least). To limit the list to any of the three categories of my work click the words above, and to reset the list, click here.
Currently I work for Future Route Ltd in the Marketing Department looking after the corporate and product websites, and any online based advertising and email campaigns that go with them. As well as this, I half look after the html design of the product itself, Validis, which is an online based Accountacy tool. I have been working here since May 2007.
Validis Accountants in Practice video - April 2008
Presentation video in Flash of the Validis service to Accountants in Practice
Validis website v2 - Spring 2008
The company marketing website redesigned based on feedback
Validis Flash Product Tour - Winter 2007
Five videos describing the functionality of Validis, complete with voiceover and Flash player
Validis website - Autumn 2007
The first redesign of the Validis marketing website
For the first four months of 2007 a friend and I travelled around Mexico and Guatemala, two months of which was spend volunteering doing teaching and conservation work in a small Guatemalan town, Santiago Atitlan. Over this period I kept a travelling blog.
Contratiempos en America Centrale - Spring 2007
A Wordpress blog kept updated while I travelled around Mexico and Guatemala
From November 2005 to January 2007 I worked for Magicalia Ltd, starting up and running ThinkCamera.com, a photography community site. I also did adboxes, banners and other online work for the other websites in Magicalia's publishing division.
ThinkCamera.com - Winter 2005 to Spring 2007
A digital photography community and review website I ran for Magicalia Ltd
ThinkCamera.com Category and Group images - Spring 2006
A collection of images drawn to be used in ThinkCamera's product system
Magicalia Adboxes - Spring 2006 - 2007
My favourite ads, banners and joinboxes created at Magicalia
In the summer of 2005 I worked for C Venues up at the Edinburgh Festival. While initially working in IT, setting up phones and looking after the company computers, they quickly moved me onto design of posters, brochures, flyers and show programmes. In the few months leading up to the 2006 season, I also produced a few posters, but only worked at the festival for a week that year.
Hansel and Gretel poster - July 2006
The poster for C theatre's production of Hansel and Gretel
Shakespeare for Breakfast 2006 poster - July 2006
A promotional poster for 2006's Shakespeare for Breakfast show
Acting Gym / Theatre in the Pound poster - July 2006
A poster for the two C theatre shows Acting Gym and Theatre in the Pound
C the Film poster and flyer - August 2005
The front and back designs for the C the Film A3 poster and A6 flyer
Shakespeare for Breakfast 2005 poster - August 2005
A promotional poster for 2005's Shakespeare for Breakfast show
C venues brochure - July 2005
Cleaning up and new page design for the 2005 festival brochure
After joining the Kent University Canoe Club for fun at the start of my university degree, I was made club treasurer for the second and third years (and President Elect for my fourth non-existent year). As well as being treasurer I also looked after the company website, did t-shirt designs and used the club as a basis for some of my university projects.
KUCC Alps trip 2005 t-shirt - May 2005
The design for the back of the trip t-shirts
KUCC website 2004-2005 v2 - Winter 2004
A more conventional site design for the club website
KUCC website 2004-2005 - September 2004
An online magazine style redesign for the KUCC website
KUCC Alps trip 2004 minisite - July 2004
A flash based minisite for our 2004 Alps trip
KUCC Alps trip 2004 t-shirts - June 2004
Two images created for the back of the trip t-shirts
KUCC website 2003-2004 - Winter 2003
The 2003-2004 version of the canoe club website
From 2002 to 2005 I was at the University of Kent at Canterbury, getting a 2:1 in Multimedia Technology and Design. This section covers the more portfolio friendly modules I took (I could put programming up I suppose) and any other work I did during this period.
The Phone portfolio - June 2005
A Flash based portfolio site (unfinished) that uses a mobile phone for design and interaction
3rd year project - Midwich Cuckoos - Spring 2005
A Flash and HTML based website for a hypothetical television series of John Wyndham's novel, the Midwich Cuckoos. This brings together visual, audio and interactive elements.
Juego Justo - April 2005
The spiritual successor to La Pomme et L'homme was a housemate's third year project, but I was a consultant, cameraman and actor in it
The Tumbleweed of Dave - April 2005
A quite weird Flash animation based on what I consider to be the most boring song of all time
Vector background image for the band Intrinsic - April 2005
Vector image of Nick, singer of Intrinsic
Intrinsic band website - April 2005
A very quick website thrown together for a band, with a rather different twist to the design
Photography module poster - March 2005
A 50s science fiction style poster to show-off the Multimedia Technology and Design degree to prospective and current students
d3r3k the robot - Winter 2004
An animation for a compositing module following d3r3k the 3d rendered robot
La Pomme et L'homme - Spring 2004
A five minute video project based on the brief of "Contrasts"
University Director project 2- Spring 2004
A User Interface project based on usability studies
University Director project - Spring 2004
A Director based showpiece for a Dutch photographer
Canterbeery - September 2003
A Flash based bar and pub review site for Canterbury
MADant website - Winter 2002
One of the first websites I properly did, this is for a friend. Website and logo design
Inspiration website - Winter 2002
One of the first websites in the course where we were allowed to use Dreamweaver, this is an end of module assignment about people that have inspired me