I was a Mac Operator at The Warehouse head office, working on the weekly mailer. These were some of the front pages I laid out.

I have completed a two-month contract at Spacific, producing school yearbooks, for eight out of the last nine years. Each year, near the end of the year, I have been a Mac Operator there, laying out about 8 yearbooks each time on average. For each book I would manage the project through to completion and a print-ready file. There was a lot of detail and a lot of pages to lay out. And also, of course, thousands of photographs to colour adjust so they print as well as possible.

These animated web banners were created while I worked at Adrenalin Publishing. The banners promote their various magazine titles. Then there are some gifs created for Scenic Reflexions, to show off the way their scenic pictures change when tilted in the light. Plus there is a painting of mine animated to show the sunflower blowing in the wind.

I created this map from scratch in Adobe Illustrator for Centra Forklifts. The challenge was to show all of their locations and those of their client, Carters, while still being clear and readable.

I was the Mac Operator for this edition of Demm magazine at Adrenalin Publishing. The magazine is 36 pages long. I was required to design and lay out all of the editorial pages, as well as create some of the ads, ensure the file is print-ready, and send it to the printer via FTP.

Laying out Rangitoto College’s Vista magazine at Spacific

In 2015 I designed this shirt for myself and friends to wear as a supporters at the Cricket World Cup held in NZ. The design shows the NZ captain at the time, Brendon McCullum, in the style of the ‘Obama Hope’ poster. Myself and a friend were briefly shown on tv wearing the shirts during the NZ vs England game in Wellington. This led to a NZ fan in Australia patiently tracking me down via Facebook to order the t-shirt. I was only wearing the shirt on tv for three seconds, but it was enough to get an order from another country…

I created this colouring book myself, based on my own paintings. It involved drawing an outline version of each of 24 paintings in Illustrator, then designing and laying out the book and cover in Indesign, and finally uploading and printing it through lulu.com.

Space Cow Express is a book I wrote and self-published about my travels in India. This project involved writing the book, designing and laying it out, illustrating it, creating the cover artwork montage, and uploading the book to the lulu website and making it available on Amazon. I also created a Kindle e-book version of it.

I worked here as a temp in 2000. This is work I did in-house for Mediatec. They were also an employment agency who sent me to various other companies around Manchester for freelance jobs.

Space Cow range of school stationery – turning my own paintings into exercise books, a pencil tin, ring binders and self-adhesive book covering – at Max Marketing.

I worked here in the Canary Islands as a graphic designer for the whole year of 1992. Each month I laid out four magazines (Tenerife Holiday Magazine, Lanzarote Holiday Magazine, and their German-language equivalents), as well as other design and marketing work, including a large project for TCI timeshare resorts.

I had two six-month stints here as a temp, in 1989 and 1991, working in the Reprographics Department of John Brown Engineering, in Kensal Road, London. I was laying out report covers and business cards, designing logos, and also doing illustrations where needed.

When I am not working at being a graphic designer, I create and paint original artworks, using my ‘artist’ name of Gravity George. These are some of my recent works. You can see the rest at www.gravitygeorge.co.nz