Hi, I’m Chris Dowson.
I’m a freelance creative designer specialising in digital & eCommerce.
I started my career in printing and publishing - expanding into digital design and development and in 2005 I set up my own studio: My First Raygun. I now work on branding and digital design projects for businesses, individuals and agencies across the world.
Here’s what I can help you with:
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Brand design.
I have created a lot of logos - I know that branding is so much more than creating a kickass graphic and slapping it on your website header and some business cards. It takes a lot of planning, a little faith and a kick-ass graphic to slap on your website header.
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Graphic design.
The discipline that started it all for me. I trained as a graphic designer at college and have worked on countless layout projects - both editorial and commercial. I set a mean form, and a killer double page spread. It was my first design love...
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Web design & development.
I am an experienced web designer and developer. Whether it's a brochure site, a control panel or a shopping cart, I ensure that it looks great, works well and helps the user achieve your goals.
I have worked on projects for:
Tim Beresford-Brealey Owner Wharf Cottage KennelsAlways a pleasure working with Chris, he has a real eye for the latest design. Would definitely recommend and I intend to use him again for my next project.
Projects I’ve worked on.
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pug.js.
I never work for free, and I refuse to enter design competitions - it devalues designers and the hard work we put into projects, our businesses and careers - but it's important to pay it forwards sometimes.
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Anticipate Invitations.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and when you have imagery of this calibre to use in your designs, you can speak volumes. Anticipate Invitations leverages the power of CraftCMS and the flexibility of Snipcart to deliver an eCommerce store that really goes above and beyond.
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KudosQA.
KudosQA needed a website to showcase their QA services, and approached me to design and build it for them, working from a logo they had already commissioned.
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