My work
A portfolio of the work I have designed and built
Barclays
Worked with Redwood Publishing to design their business banking portal and a series of emails to support it. It provides information on all aspects of small business banking and the services that Barclays offers.
Barclays is a multinational banking and financial services company. It has operations in over 50 countries and territories across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America and around 48 million customers.
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Disney
http://www.disney.com
Designed a series of pieces for use in the 'Street Smart Mickey' childreswear clothing range.
Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media corporation headquartered in Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, California, United States. It is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue.
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Marvel
http://www.marvel.com
Designed a series of pieces for use in the 'Propaganda' clothing range.
Marvel is an American company that publishes comic books and related media. Marvel counts among its characters such well-known properties as Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Captain America and Daredevil.
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Argos
http://www.argos.co.uk
Worked with Redwood Publishing to design a parenting club information portal for the Chinese market. It provides information on all aspects of pregancy and parenting as well as providing offers, competitions and prizes.
With about 740 stores, Argos is the largest general-goods retailer in the UK
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Selfridges & Co.
Designed and built all areas of the site including premium branded microsites for brands such as Apple, Paul Smith, Ralpha Lauren, Marc Jacbos, Michael Kors, Vivienne Westwood, Longchamp, Mulberry, Hugo Boss, Le Creuset, Estee Lauder, Dior, Chanel, M•A•C and Clinique.
Selfridges is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom. The flagship store in London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK and opened in 1909.
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Coast
Design and built a series of homepages and features for Coast as well as helping to transition the site to new design.
Coast is a high street fashion retailer with over 300 stores in over 20 countries.
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Oasis
Design and built a series of homepages and features for Oasis as well as helping to transition the site to new design.
Coast is a high street fashion retailer with over 300 stores in over 20 countries.
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Royal Mail
http://www.royalmail.com
Worked with Work Communications to design and build a site promoting the Royal Mail's graduate recruitment drive as well as deisgning and building a series of banners to help promote it.
Royal Mail is the government-owned postal service in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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John Lewis
http://www.johnlewis.com
Designed and built a series of shop categories, features and FAQs for John Lewis as well as helping to transition the site to a new design and CMS.
John Lewis is a chain of upmarket department stores operating throughout Great Britain.There are currently 39 stores throughout England, Scotland and Wales.
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FreeFlow
http://www.freeflow.com
Designed and built their site and produced a movie illustrating what they do and how their system works.
FreeFlow provide a B2B auction service for excess stock and an inventory management system.
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Boots
Designed and created premium branded microsites for brand such as Dolce & Gabbana, Lacoste, Hugo Boss, Braun, Oral B and Garnier. Template designer. Primary in house developer and technical consultant on the redesign, relaunch and on going development of the site and the Boots WebMD portal.
Also worked with Redwood Publishing to create premium branded microsites for over 35 brands including Diesel, DKNY, Gillette, Stella McCartney and Vera Wang.
Boots is a leading health and beauty retailer in the UK, with over 2,600 outlets throughout the country. It also has retail stores in continental Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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J.P. Morgan
Worked with Work Communications to design and build a recruitment site for J.P. Morgan, the mobile version of which is powered by jQuery mobile. Also designed and built a series of emails and Flash presentations for JPMorgan Chase.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational banking corporation of securities, investments and retail. JPMorgan Chase is one of the Big Four banks in the US.
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Asda
Worked with Work Communications to design and build a site promoting Asda's graduate recruitment drive.
Asda are the second largest British supermarket chain, with over 500 stores around the country, and is a subsidiary of the American retail giant Walmart
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Orange
Worked with Chemistry Digital to create a "Laugh Lounge" competition microsite for the Orange Business Christmas campaign.
Orange are the seventh largest telecom operator in the world, with over 189 million customers as of 2009.
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Warehouse
Design and build a series of homepages, emails, features, Flash outfit selector tools and banners for Warehouse.
Warehouse is a high street fashion retailer with over 300 stores around the country.
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Virgin Media
Worked with Redwood Publishing to build features and competitions in Flash for Virgin Media's "Electric" ezine.
With over 5 million UK customers Virgin Media is the second largest telecommunications supplier in the UK.
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Tesco
Worked with Cedar Communications to build features and competitions for Tesco's online magazine.
Tesco is a global grocery and general merchandise retailer. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues and second largest by profits. It has stores in 14 countries across Asia, Europe and North America and is the grocery market leader in the UK, Malaysia, the Republic of Ireland and Thailand.
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La Redoute
Design and built a series of features, both static and interactivite, including a Flash outfit selector tools for La Redoute's UK online magazine.
La Redoute is the largest mail order company in France and has been working in the UK for over a decade.
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Network Rail
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/
Worked with Work Communications to design and build a series of Flash based ATM animations and banners for Network Rail's graduate recruitment drive.
Network Rail is the government-created owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain.
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Accenture
http://www.accenture.com/
Worked with Work Communications to design and build a series of emails, banners and Flash presentations for Accenture.
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology consulting and technology outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the largest consulting firm in the world and is a Fortune Global 500 company.
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Menter Mon
http://www.mentermon.com/
Worked with Work Communications to design and build Menter Mon's website.
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Games Workshop
http://ne.games-workshop.com/
Updated content and design on both customer facing and trade stockists sites. Designed and built 'Postermaker' Flash web application to allow independent retailers to produce their own marketing materials. Jointly created design of Northern European White Dwarf magazine, which was later and still used as the template for all versions of the magazine through out the world. Designed a large range of packaging and books, including the flagship product the Warhammer 40,000 Rule Book.
Games Workshop and is the dominant company in the miniature war gaming hobby with over 350 retail outlets and more than 3,700 independent toy and hobby shops around the world worldwide.
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The Army Painter
http://www.thearmypainter.com/
Designed and laid out a 26 page booklet, and accompanying display stand, to be used as a guide on how to use all of The Army Painter's products.
The Army Painter are a Danish based wargaming and model painting supplier distributed in over 200 stores in 14 countries.
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Nottingham City Council
Designed and built an interactive map using Flash for Nottingham City Council. It allows the user to see Nottingham and it's services in multiple contexts; within Europe, the UK, the East Midlands and then how it's services and industries are located.
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123-reg
Complete site redesign and sIFR implementation.
123-reg are the UK's premiere domain name registration company.
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Webfusion
http://www.webfusion.co.uk/
Site elements redesign. 'InstantChat' software implementation. RSS feed creation. Search engine optimisation.
Webfusion are one of the UK's leading web hosting providers.
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Yotel
Worked with Chemistry Digital to design and build a website for Yotel.
Yotel is a capsule roomed hotel chain founded by Simon Woodroffe, the founder of YO! Sushi.
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Mills & Bloom
http://www.millsandbloom.com/
Complete site design and construction for the florists based in Doss, Norfolk.
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Subside Sports
http://www.subsidesports.com/
Creation of Adidas, Reebok and World Cup microsites for both UK and German sites. Japanese and French site translations and creation.
Subside Sports offers one of the largest selections of football merchandise online.
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Jones Bootmaker
http://www.jonesbootmaker.com/
Navigation redesign. Banner advert creation.
Jones Bootmaker is a footwear retailer with over 80 branches throughout the United Kingdom
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About me
A short history, biography and description of the designer
My name is Chris Ward. I live and work in London, England and I'm a freelance designer who specialises in web design, a web designer if you will, being a codey fellow I'm equally adept at that whole front-end development malarky.
I also dabble in print work, logo design, branding, icons and SEO too. I've even made a font or two (two exactly if you want to be pernickety) but prefer the UI design and development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Flash, ActionScript etc.) side of things.
I have produced work for many different folk and have been doing this professionally for a grand total of 0.72 (ish) decades. Before that I attended Nottingham Trent University where I completed a Bsc (Hons.) in Multimedia Production.
I am a big advocate of using web standards to keep the web as healthy and accessible as possible. I'm also a big proponent of open source software.
Feel free to contact me using the details below (by clicking on one of the little icons at the bottom of the page) or take a peak at my 'contact' section and if you want to see some examples of my work then go an have a look at my 'work' section.
N.B. Please note the guy in the picture above is not me. I am a British web designer born in the early 80's, he was an American baseball player in the 70's. We are both left handed. He is taller than me. I know very little about baseball except that it involves a lot of statistics and that if you build it they will come.
If you would like to find out more about that Chris Ward please have a look at his page on Wikipedia or at FanGraphs if you're into that sabermetrics kind of thing (yeah I watched Moneyball). If you want a website though, then you probably want to talk to me not him.
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