This is the site of Mathew Keller an award winning Digital Designer and Web Developer based in Brighton, England.
If you would like to find out more about me please visit the About section of this site. To view some of my work please visit the Portfolio section or if you have a project that needs my skills please get in touch via the information supplied in the Contact section.
This weekend I once again had the pleasure of helping out my favourite charity organisation; Draw the World Together run a charity Sketch-a-thon at the Bristol International Comics Expo.
After a long and somewhat eventful car journey with my friend and fellow comic show cohort Stephen Reid we arrived in Bristol and, Clip-board in hand, I spent the rest of the afternoon taking down sketch requests for a team of some of the best comic book artists in the UK.
In total an amazing £696.61 was raised for the charity.
Personally speaking though the weekend was even more of a success as not only did I get to hang out with the likes of Andrew Wildman, David Lloyd, Stephen Baskerville, Lee Bradley, Neil Edwards, Laura Howell, Kat Nicholson, Jason Cardy and Andie Tong but I had an amazing curry in the company of some excellent fellows including Mr Simon Furman AND I finally managed to pin Andie Tong down and get an awesome sketch of Ms Marvel done (which you can see above ^^).
For a more detailed chronological account head over to Stephen’s blog for the full blow by blow.
A couple of weeks ago I found myself returning to my roots as a designer, by producing a flyer for a club night, something I haven’t had the pleasure of doing for about 4 years now.
What makes this particular flyer all the more special for me is that not only is it for one of my earliest clients, the DJ collective Knowledge of Self who I’ve been working with for over 11 years now, but that the actual design features flyers from the beginnings of KOS’s personal history, many of which I had a hand in designing and producing.
The night itself takes pace on Sunday 3rd May, 2009 at the Concorde 2, so if you are a fan of Hip-Hop then head on down and break out some moves on the dance floor!
Last week i had the pleasure of implementing this great bit of stand-alone PHP into a clients website:
http://shiftingpixel.com/2008/03/03/smart-image-resizer/
It’s a neat little script and very easy to use. Basically what it does is to resize and crop any image you throw at it on the fly. What this means in real terms is that you only ever have to create one thumbnail image and you can use the same image in different places on your site in a variety of different shapes and sizes!
I would show you some examples but it requires PHP 5.1 and my webserver is only running PHP 4.4.7
(thanks to Mr. Dalton for putting me onto this script)
It seems I am to be amongst the victims of corporate restructuring at NCsoft with my role as Senior Graphic Designer being made redundant.
So now I start the somewhat daunting task of finding a new job. In the interim I will be looking for Freelance work, so if you have any requirements for work or a project that needs my skills please get in touch via the information supplied in the Contact section.
