The Binsted Group / 2002 - 2016

Marketing & publications company offering PR, exhibition, design and print. They also produce three trade magazines for the beverage, food and pharmaceutical industry, all written and designed in house. From the initial production, I created layouts or gallies then produced finished proofs for checking. Also designing brochures and exhibition stands and pull ups banners.

Adrian has worked for my company since 2002, as our Studio Manager, and at all times we found him to be extremely honest and hardworking individual.

Binsted Group, Andover

Allso-Print /1999 - 2002 / 2017 - 2018

All aspects of creative design and print, from stationary, data sheets, newspaper advertisements, vehicle design, display panels and web production.

He occupied portion of Senior Graphic Designer / Studio Manager... he produced good work with a willing approach to client satisfaction. He was enthusiastic, self motivated and hard working who worked well with others inside and outside the company.

Allso-Print

PDP Communications / 1998 - 1990

Moved to Hampshire to continue to work on production of Slide presentations for Basingstoke clients including Thomas De La Rue, IBM Basingstoke, The Mercantile Insurance Co. But the creation of design and print was a very big part also of my responsibilities.

His ability and knowledge coupled with confidence and conscientious attention to detail enabled him quickly establish a high level of regard within the company and more importantly, perhaps, with clients.

PDP Communications

Mills & Allen International  / 1985 - 1988

Trained for outdoor advertising media (Avnet) systems. These were big outdoor advertising animation boards situated on the Cromwell Road and Piccadilly Circus. Working with London agencies to advertise products and campaigns onto this new form of outdoor advertising, including Eddie Shah's The Today Newspaper, Terry Wogan’s Six o’clock chat show and the release of Queen’s It’s a kind of Magic. As well as Ford, Motorola and WEA Records. I then moved to a subsidiary of Mills & Allen, Pearl & Dean cinema group to invest in computer graphics systems for the production of the cinema advertising end titles and outdoor advertising posters.

I joined Avnet, a division of Mills & Allen and Pearl and Dean where Adrian was employed as a graphic artist. During that time I always found him to be hardworking, loyal and extremely enthusiastic person. He is a most self motivated.

Pearl & Dean

IBM Warwick / 1983 - 1985

Graphic Designer / Demonstrator in a contract capacity creating brochures and slide presentations to regional management and sales staff. This was the start of graphic design on computers therefore demonstrated to IBM’s computer aided publishing system to blue chip companies and exhibition shows at Wembley Conference centre.

He mastered the use of computer graphics very quickly and become our most expert user the Interactive Presentation Graphics. I recommend him not only as a graphic artist but an expert of the IPG system.

Manager, Computer-aided In-house Publishing Project