Heriot-Watt is a global university with campuses in Orkney, Edinburgh, Scottish Borders, Dubai and Malaysia. Managing creative projects and campaigns for stakeholders across the universities 5 campuses.
Work includes award winning 'Year of' campaigns; Year of the Sea 2018 and Year of Health 2019.
Brand development and prospectus design.
Communication and microsite design for the universities strategy 2025.
myHWU portal app design and promotion.
Student services look and feel in large format display and print collateral.

A problem solver and a one stop shop. Working with my clients to identify their marketing / promotional needs in order to provide web, social media and print design services.

DIGITAL
• Website Design and Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Wordpress, Drupal etc
• Creative digital graphics - call to action - animated gif's - e-commerce
• Social media engagement and reach through advertising
• Email design

PRINT
• Magazine design
• Creative artwork for print
• Corporate Identity
• Brochures.
• Annual Reviews / Reports, Leaflets
• Packaging design
• Print buying and management
• Logo design and branding
• Exhibition / Events / Display Material, Promotional Literature and Gifts.

Award winning family publishers of four medical magazines:
Eye news, Cardiology news, Urology news and ENT & audiology news. The latter is distributed worldwide and was awarded PPA Scotland’s ‘Business and Professional Magazine of the year’ in 2010 and 2011.
In 2012 it was awarded highly commended as PPA Scotland’s ‘Cover of the year’ and ‘Business and Professional Magazine of the year’.
My work here included the following
• Redesign of Scotland’s New Homebuyer Magazine its branding and website development.
• Magazine design, setting up of new working templates.
• Communicating with senior medical specialists, external magazine clients and advertisers.
• Brand development across all magazines
• Developing, marketing and managing design services for clients.
• Email design for clients and internal promotions.
• Designing interactive PDF’s for data capture.
• Competitions and data capture.
• Managing website advertisers using OpenX.
• Cardiology news magazine app development and user experience for advertisers.
• Subscription campaigns and related promotional material.
• Exhibition design, posters and all conference promotional literature.

Running a design consultant service for a variety of clients including ‘Clydesdale’, ‘Bett homes’, ‘Forestry Commission’, ‘Scottish Natural Heritage’, ‘Lothian Regional Council’, ‘Asda’ and ‘Wm. Low’ magazine. Working closely with external design services and suppliers, I have also provided a freelance service to design companies including.
• Annual report design – ‘James Gardiner Associates’.
• Brochure design and artwork – ‘Teviot’ and ‘Artificers’.

Responsible for all design services for clients including Health Boards and NHS Trusts, Regional Councils and other blue chip companies.
• Meet with potential clients to tailor design solutions to their needs and budgets.
• Initial brief to completion on all projects whilst managing team members, freelancers and suppliers.

• Packaging design for ‘Wm. Low’.
• Exhibition, annual report design and production for ‘Scottish Sports Council’.

EMEU Typography and Calligraphy - Credit pass
Member of SIAD (Society of Industrial Artists and Designers)