James Stiff

Art Director & Digital Designer

Manchester, United Kingdom
I’m a freelance art director and digital designer based in Manchester, UK.

I’ve been designing stuff (commercially) since 1995 and got into designing for the web in 1998.

I served as digital designer at NME.COM for seven years before getting the itch, working freelance and then co-founding the award-winning creative agency Stiff Rowlands (2007-2012).

Whilst at Stiff Rowlands I was lucky enough to work with some amazing clients including Clash Magazine, The Drum, Manchester International Festival, MUTV, NME and The Rolling Stones.

Since becoming freelance again in early 2012, I have had the great pleasure of redesigning the official Rolling Stones and Stones Archive websites plus some top secret projects for digital agency, Pivotal.

Work Experience

James Stiff

Freelance Art Director & Digital Designer

February 2012 - Manchester, United Kingdom

Stiff Rowlands

Creative Director

October 2007 - February 2012 Manchester, United Kingdom

NME.COM

Digital Designer

April 2000 - April 2007 United Kingdom

Education

Liverpool John Moores University

BA (Hons) Graphic Design

September 1993 - June 1996 Liverpool, United Kingdom

Falmouth School Of Art

Art Foundation

September 1992 - July 1993 Falmouth, United Kingdom

Languages

English (Native),

Awards

The DRUM

Roses Advertising Award - Viral

2011

Skills

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, CSS, Final Cut Pro, HTML, JavaScript, Logic, PHP, WordPress,