Matt Harrison

About Me
I have an utterly unshakable passion for design. When Im not designing or talking, reading or writing about design, Im thinking about it. Its what I love to do. I have an equal passion for print and the web. Im an affable chap with a good sense of humour and I make a mean pot of tea. My training as an architect has fostered within me a constantly enquiring critical ability to find new, creative and impassioned ways to solve old problems.

A spirited and resourceful web and print guy.

ADDRESS: 12 Brook Avenue, Newbrook, Manchester M12 5YI | MOBILE: 07776378955 | EMAIL: mt_harrison@hotmail.co.uk

Education
20072011 Manchester School of Architecture BA(Hons) Architecture 2002-2004 Urmston Grammar School 3 A Levels 1997-2002 Wellacre Technology College 9 GCSEs

Software
Design Adobe Illustrator CS5 Expert Adobe InDesign CS5 Expert Adobe Photoshop CS5 Expert Adobe Flash CS5 Intermediate 3D Autodesk AutoCAD 2011 Expert Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 Expert Rhino 4.0 Advanced Grasshopper Advanced

Recent Experience
Freelance Web Design University College London Static website design and development for the Department of Earth Sciences. Skills: Design, PHP, HTML, CSS Flissycakes Design of a Wordpress template for an award-winning wedding cake supplier. Skills: Design, UI/UX, HTML, CSS, PHP, Wordpress Sound Research Laboratories Design of a Joomla! template for global engineering consultants. Skills: Design, Joomla!, PHP, HTML, CSS Floribunda Flowers Design and development of an e-commerce site for an existing florists wishing to create an online presence. Skills: Design, Magento, PHP, HTML, CSS

My Approach
In short, the most vital factors in my approach to design are well ordered and structured content, great typography, thoughtful use of colour, high usability, functionality and simplicity. I have a very strong client-centered approach. I believe in involving the client as much as possible at all stages. I like to provide my clients with constant feedback. A client who has invested time, will also invest emotionally. I am always looking for alternative techniques and technologies to make my working practice more efficient. Design should not stagnate and I never shirk from change.

Languages & Web Technologies

HTML 4.01 Expert HTML 5 Advanced CSS/CSS3 Expert Javascript Intermediate JQuery Advanced PHP Intermediate Wordpress Advanced Ruby on Rails Beginner Kohana PHP Framework Intermediate

Skills
Great communicator Ability to think critically Efficiency and ability to meet deadlines Very good knowledge of print and finish techniques and their applications A worldly knowledge and passion for social, historical and political context.

References are available upon request.

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Flissycakes
URL: www.flissycakes.com Date Completed: September 2010

A spirited and resourceful web and print guy.

Portfolio

ADDRESS: 12 Brook Avenue, Newbrook, Manchester M12 5YI | MOBILE: 07776378955 | EMAIL: mt_harrison@hotmail.co.uk

Work Undertaken: Initial consultation, marketing strategy, copy writing, Wordpress template design. Development and implementation of the Wordpress site was completed by a third party. Project Synopsis This project involved working with an award-winning wedding cake supplier to completely redesign their website. Their existing static site was not proving to be usable for their staff. The quick turnaround of their products meant that they required an easy to use interface for sharing their work with customers. We decided early on that a Wordpress site would provide a usable interface yet allow unlimited freedom in design. Initially through brainstorming, diagramming and sketching, and then later through wireframing, we produced an information architecture strategy and a Wordpress template.

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Portfolio

ADDRESS: 12 Brook Avenue, Newbrook, Manchester M12 5YI | MOBILE: 07776378955 | EMAIL: mt_harrison@hotmail.co.uk

Floribunda Flowers
URL: www.floribunda-flowers.co.uk Date Completed: December 2009 Work Undertaken Web hosting, design of a Magento template including all graphic elements, logo design, copy writing, development of Magento site. On going training and support to client. Project Synopsis The client owns a very well established floristry business in the centre of Urmston town centre. He approached me with the desire to start selling his products online. We assessed the various e-commerce platforms available and decided upon Magento. I have a good knowledge of PHP and MVC design patterns so this offered the best scope for flexibility and customisation. I took care of all aspects of this site, and still assist in the maintenance and updating.

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Portfolio

ADDRESS: 12 Brook Avenue, Newbrook, Manchester M12 5YI | MOBILE: 07776378955 | EMAIL: mt_harrison@hotmail.co.uk

New Islington Controversy Website

Date Completed: May 2010 Work Undertaken Website design using HTML, CSS and Jquery Project Synopsis This was a week-long university project. The project involved researching an architectural controversy and producing a website for a presentation. I was the web developer and web designer for the project.

UCL Research Website

URL: http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk/research/ainsa Date Completed: January 2011 Work Undertaken Website design using HTML, CSS and PHP Project Synopsis This was a 1 day job. The sedimentology research group needed a very basic 4 page static site to replace an outdated one. The primary criterion was that staff should be able to update information reasonably easy. I achieved this with PHP by including all textual information from independent text files which can be updated by staff.

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Portfolio

ADDRESS: 12 Brook Avenue, Newbrook, Manchester M12 5YI | MOBILE: 07776378955 | EMAIL: mt_harrison@hotmail.co.uk

Architecture Poster
Date Completed: September 2010 Project Synopsis A poster designed at university to represent an innovative way of describing urban space. Adobe InDesign CS5 and Illustrator CS5

MMU Poster Competition

Date Completed: October 2010 Project Synopsis My entry to the MMU 10,000 trees competition which was run by MMU and Creative Lynx. The poster was intended to make staff and students think twice before using paper or printing. My entry highlights the current unsustainable usage of paper within Britain by use of an infograph created from a trunk section. Adobe InDesign CS5 and Illustrator CS5. My entry was the runner-up and I received a prize of 50 Amazon.co.uk vouchers.

Main Entrance

Departure Screens

Platform 5

112/80/90 Avg: 94

45/20/60 Avg: 42

60/86/80 Avg: 75

112/80/90 Avg: 94

4/8/11 Avg: 8

10/12/8 Avg: 10

60 83/86/88 Avg: 86BPM

0.7 83/76/93 Avg: 86BPM

15 90/84/86 Avg: 87BPM

5 72/80/84 Avg: 79 BPM

20 70/88/80 Avg: 79BPM

6 76/77/76 Avg: 76BPM

79.0/81.9/83.2 Avg: 81.4dB

78.1/77.5/96.6 Avg: 84dB

87.7/85.1/93.6 Avg: 88.8dB

89.5/88.0/90.1 Avg: 89.2dB

92.0/84.1/92.1 Avg: 89dB

79.0/81.9/83.2 Avg: 81.4

97.5/105.7/105.7 Avg: 103.0dB

97.5/92.0/105.7 Avg: 98.4dB

99.5/99.8/104.2 Avg: 101dB

99.6/92.0/95.3 Avg: 96dB

104.2/105.8/95.9 Avg: 102dB

97.5/105.7/105.7 Avg: 103.0

19c

12c

20.6c

22c

22.1c

21.0c

64%

49%

68%

54%

68%

52%

Frantic, Chaotic, Tired, Serious, Desparate, Suspicious

Lingering, Scuttling, Alone, Pacing

Waiting, Suspense, Panic, Anger, Frustration

Calm, Composed, Confident, Slouching, Tired

Calm, Relaxed, Horizontal, Elongated, Barrel, Still

Still, Hum, Muffled, Ech

Taxi Rank

Metrolink Mezzanine

Underground Car Park

90/77/85 Avg: 84

22/18/20 Avg: 20

0/1/1 Avg: 1

25/2/0 Avg: 9

6/3/2 Avg: 4

0/0/1 Avg: 0

60 78/82/80 Avg: 78BPM

3 100/93/86 Avg: 93BPM

10 70/75/76 Avg: 73.7BPM

10 81/78/76 Avg: 78BPM

2 90/91/82 Avg: 88BPM

2 100/96/98 Avg: 98BPM

86.1/81.6/84.2 Avg: 83.9dB

78.8/83.5/88.3 Avg: 83.5dB

80.8/78.4/76.0 Avg: 78.4dB

71.5/72.0/76.5 Avg: 73dB

87.2/70.7/76.0 Avg: 78.0dB

68.0/69.9/72.2 Avg: 70.0dB

101.3/98.0/103.3 Avg:101dB

97.4/96.0/99.9 Avg: 97.9dB

92.6/94.9/86.7 Avg: 91.4dB

83.9/84.1/86.0 Avg: 84.7dB

99.6/91.4/87.8 Avg: 93.0dB

87.2/84.6/91.2 Avg: 87.6dB

22.8c

17c

22.4c

19.1%

24.5c

18c

67%

55%

64%

54%

65%

48%

Angry, Annoyed, Bored, Rushing, Awkward, Struggling

Yellow, Sodium, Anxious, Waiting

Silent, Hum, Vacant

Still, Buzz, Low Hum, Diffuse, Soft

Dank, Bright, Yellow, Hard, Incidental, Pressure

Frantic, Chaotic, Tired, Serious, Desparate, Suspicious

Diagram Legend
Number of people to pass me in 1 minute. 3 readings and mean Light Level, calculated as 1/F-stop (as advised on ambient light meter) Pulse (BPM), 3 readings and mean Maxiumum Sound Pressure Level (dB) Peak Sound Pressure Level (dB) Temperature (c) Relative Humidity (%) First words that came to my mind when expressing the space Current Level One Level beneath current

A Data Record
No entity exists in isolation and only has meaning in the connections it makes with other things. In this sense, our places are overlappings of machines with their own overlapping and interconnected productions. Production of light, of heat, of spatial boundaries and bodily affects. As a photograph is a visual record or snapshot of the light production in a space, this study of Piccadilly Station is a snapshot of various data collected at several points at different times of the day. The production is an data-graph.

In the UK we now use 3 times more paper than we can sustainably produce. During 2008/09 the amount of paper the University used was equivalent to 10,000 trees, 42.6 tons, or enough to fill Wembley Stadium many times over.

Please think twice before printing.

Matt Harrison

Portfolio

ADDRESS: 12 Brook Avenue, Newbrook, Manchester M12 5YI | MOBILE: 07776378955 | EMAIL: mt_harrison@hotmail.co.uk

New Startup Logo

Date Completed: June 2011 Project Synopsis I designed these logos for a new Manchester based startup. The agency provide web design and UX expertise and are rebranding their business. I produced some logo studies based on their choice of font: Archer by Hoefler & Frere-Jones