Dave Matthews , Manchester, United Kingdom

I like to think of myself as a one man army of Illustration, Visuals, Design and Creativity with over 15 years in the Events Industry as Design Director with the Multi-Award winning fresh group in Cheadle plus decades of experience in the Advertising and Design sector.I draw in
any style basically, from concept visuals to highly polished stuff and everything in between, storyboards in any style you prefer I work on a Wacom Cintiq in Photoshop and Illustrator and on the ipad with Adobe Fresco and Procreate. I also do a lot of finished illustrations for print
and digital and illustrations/graphics/cartoons for video to animate from and like to design
Type styles/Calligraphy etc.

...As a deeper bit of background, I've been in the industry all my life...
After two years at Art College, I started at Manchester's iconic Wilson Advertising at the age of 18 and then on to McCann's Manchester producing Storyboards, Visuals and Illustrations. Then came a freelancing career for most of the top Advertising Agencies/Design Consultants ...And then owning my own design company 'Mosaic Creative Limited' for 20 years.

For the last 12 years I have been Design Director at The mult-award winning fresh Group in Cheadle, doing all I do for the Event/Environment pitch documents, including name and brand identity, coming up with the Creative that drives a thread right through the Events plus overseeing and getting hands on with the Design and Print collateral that goes with the project, from the initial process of Invitation and Registration, all the way through the Event including Creative/Design for Print and Film, down to any cascade material that may be required.My role at fresh also included Recruitment, mentoring the young Designers, booking and keeping an eye on the many Freelance Designers, Copywriters, Art Directors and 3D Designers...And being a Brand Guardian for the likes of Morrison's, Bentley Motors, Co-op, Santander, Samsung, Dixon's Carphone, Virgin Media, VAG, Hyundai and dozens more over the years I enjoyed there. And dare I say it, the odd bit of proof checking, I have a thing about Typo's I'm afraid!

I've recently been working with a Film company in Manchester producing Storyboards for Sky Sports, Screwfix and some of their major Sportswear companies and have received some amazing feedback from their clients, which is always welcome.
Other recent Illustration and Design work has been for Dyson, Daniel Thwaite's, Astra Zeneca, BT, Pets at home and many more

Anyway, that's enough about me apart from announcing that I'm now re-discovering my roots
on Freelance Street and thoroughly enjoying it!...And now at your disposal :-))