a freelance service

CREATING A BETTER FUTURE

Supporting communities, small businesses, sole traders, groups, clubs, and any other worthy causes by providing a range of design services.

What I OFFER

I offer a free design support service to communities, small businesses, start-up enterprises, tradespeople, interest groups, clubs and artists.

Most of my career was spent working in the packaging and automatic weighing machine industry, earlier as a project engineer and later as a company director.

For the last twenty years of my working life I devoted my time to building up a successful business, specialising in industrial electrical and electronic control systems, which I subsequently sold to my management team. Today the company is turning over several million pounds.

I trained as an engineer which then led on to project management, where I gained valuable hands on experience, supplying equipment to international companies, many of them with household names. I would now like to pass on this experience to others.  My areas of expertise are:-

Branding and identity creation
Advertising and promotion
Costing and bidding for work
Explaining engineering concepts
Photography
Skills training
General business management
Graphic Design

What I do

Below are links to different portfolios of work that I have recently undertaken, for others on a voluntary basis, or for myself, as a means of recording and transferring skills  using a variety of visual methods.

Illustration and Visualisation

Freehand or vectored images produced in most commercial  formats depending on clients specific  requirements.

Brand Identity

The creation of an identity or rebranding, including the production of style sheets and research through cultural immersion.

Web Development

From wire-framing prototypes to the complete construction of self-administered functional websites, using commercial web platforms.

iPad Painting

Giclée Paintings produced on an iPad with and Apple Pencil and Procreate

Instruction manuals

Production of instruction sheets with a mainly visual content for ease of understanding.

Photography

On site or studio photo shoots with adobe photoshop editing and enhancement for production in most commercial formats.

ABOUT WYESGUY

John Symonds - Freelance Graphic Designer

1st Class BA Hons Degree in Graphic and Media Design

Recently, and successfully, completed  a Master of Arts in Fine Art with merit and previous to that a Masters of Design in Graphic Design with merit and a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic and Media Design with First Class Honours. A graphic designer, photographer and illustrator, with the ability to understand and convey technical concepts, particularly those relating to mechanical and electrical/electronic engineering.

I devote a great deal of my time to life drawing and watercolour painting but most of my work is created using an Apple iPad and Pencil, using Fresco software. This allows me to experiment with effects, colour and composition with the freedom to be adventurous and explore new concepts

Geographical coverage – within a 50 mile radius of the city of Hereford