John Grantham

Graphic Designer

Just a guy with a thing for fonts and photos.

Work Experience

Christen Heute

Art Director, Layouter

Corporate design, template design, layout, typography/typesetting, art direction, and pre-press using Adobe tools for monthly Old Catholic magazine (between 32-48 pages monthly)
December 2014 - Bonn, Germany

Disability pensioner

March 2012 - December 2019

Xanity Design

Self-employed graphic and web designer

Layout and implementation of websites, user interfaces, corporate identities and designs, print media for companies of all sizes in the USA, Germany, Norway and the UK, independently as well as within a network or team

Concept, design, implementation, and programming of digital media (mainly websites and web applications as well as software GUIs) in the languages HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax/jQuery, PHP, MySQL, and Flash/Lingo
August 1999 - February 2012 Hannover, Germany

Dievision Medienberatung GmbH

Online Art Director

May 1998 - August 1999 Hannover, Germany

Netwhere Agentur Für Neue Medien GmbH

Online Art Director

November 1997 - March 1998 Hamburg, Germany

Education

HAWK Hildesheim

Diplom (FH)

September 1993 - July 1997 Hildesheim, Germany

Languages

English (Native),
German (Fluent),

Awards

Extensis WebINK Showcase

Four websites featured

2012

National Collegiate Cartoon Competition

Second place nationwide, single-panel cartoon

1993

Quora.com

Top Writer (English), 2016. 2017, 2018

2018

Quora.com

Top Writer (German), 2018, 2019

2019

Skills

Illustrator, Indesign, Layout, Lightroom, Logo Design, Photography, Photoshop, Print Design, Publication Design, Typography,