Peter Pearson is a web designer and developer currently working with Catch Digital an independent digital creative agency based in London. He lives in St Albans, Hertfordshire, hates the commute, and may be able to help you with small design and development projects. This site is a showcase of his freelance and university work as a web designer, developer, animator and artist.
Peter's focus is on designing and developing visually impressive, hand coded, standards compliant websites. He is passionate about design in all its forms and is always looking for better ways to build websites. A keen animator for many years using Flash and now After Effects, he has an eye for moving visuals and likes to use this in his web work where possible. If you would like to know more please have a read of this interview or you might like to see my extended portfolio
+44 (0) 7515874092
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Lots of experience with:
- jQuery
- Flash Animation
- Semantic xHTML + CSS
Some knowledge of:
- Coldfusion
- ActionScript 2
- PHP/MySQL
- Motion Graphics
Weapons of Choice:
- After Effects
- Illustrator
- Flash
- Photoshop
- Dreamweaver
UCL Alternative Languages
University College London needed an attractive site to help bring students to some of their lesser studied languages. The site showcases a series of videos giving an insight into studying at UCL and provides additional information from past students through social networking style user profiles. The catch with this project was designing in line with the painfully limiting UCL style guide.
- Open this project
- Xhtml/css
- Flash video
At the time of writing this redesign is not live yet, would you like to:
UCL Dutch Department
The soon to be launched UCL Dutch Department redesign meant diving into the Zikula CMS, in order to learn how it worked, before building the actual template could begin. The brief called for a modern lick of internet paint to be applied to the ever present UCL style guide, bringing web standards, white space and rainbows to a previously cramped corner of the web.
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- Xhtml/css
- jQuery
- CMS template
Fire Up Flash
Fire Up Flash, my ambitious final year university project, provides briefs for budding amateurs to develop their Flash animation skills. Once a completed project is uploaded users can win awards in a number of categories and at different levels through a voting system. The user level system ensures submissions are compared against those of animators of a similar ability. This project involved as steep php learning curve, as my previous experience was with Cold Fusion.
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- PHP/MySQL
- Back-end
- User levels
- Voting & awards
Motion Graphics
This video was in response to an open brief set as part of a motion graphics module at university. The objective of this largely self-taught module was to become proficient in the use of After Effects, from scratch in my case. The sound track was produced by KTrecords
- After Effects
- Motion Graphics
Never Stop Dreaming
Never Stop Dreaming was created in response to the 2007 D&AD animation brief to animate one of 15 steps to the icount guide for climate cool. The step chosen involved encouraging viewers to think about how making small changes to their habits has an accumulative effect on the world around them.
- Flash Animation
The Swamp
The Swamp is an experimental piece of digital art exploring artificial life and the irreversible consequences of genetic engineering. Users are given the chance to enter some unmarked variables before adding their digital organism to the swamp where it can interact with others on contact, reproducing, killing and eventually dying.
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- Flash
- ActionScript 2.0
Kashmir Deaf Childrens Trust
The Kashmir Deaf Childrens Trust (Kadect) needed a new site to help raise awareness of the work they are doing helping deaf children in Kashmir. The site is built on WordPress to allow the client to make their own changes and updates to the page content, news and gallery. Please watch the video and consider donating. All photography and video work was created by Kimbal Bumstead.
- Open this project
- Xhtml/css
- Flash video
- WordPress