Peter Pearson

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Peter Pearson is a BA New Media graduate from the University of Leeds, UK. Currently based in St Albans, Hertfordshire, he is looking for full time employment at a web design/digital creative agency in London. This site is a showcase of his university and freelance work as a web designer, developer, animator and artist.

Peter's focus is on designing and building 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 tries to use this in his web work where possible. On top of all things web he likes to think of himself as a bit of an artist and a climber, despite the lack of rock around London. If you would like to know more please have a read of this interview.

+44 (0) 7515874092

Myfirstname@thisdomain.com

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
Notepad++

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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.

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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

At the time of writing this redesign is not fully implemented:

Virtual Dutch

The Virtual Dutch redesign involved working with staff from several universities to update their online presence as they prepare to expand their offerings. The new design is in keeping with the existing look and feel, while providing easier access to the range of existing study packs and learning tools. The designs provided to the client were in the form of templates for the Zikula CMS.