telephone
0141 554 6103
potatoscone@gmail.com
mobile
07515394589
web
www.kevinhobbs.co.uk
post
148 Garthland Drive, Glasgow G31 2SG
A 45-year-old graphic designer with over two decades experiencein designing for print and web.
1990–2008
E Force
Project Officer
A media training project based at BBC Scotland in Glasgow.
Two strands to my job:
1. Teaching computer literacy, electronic media literacy to unemployed trainees.
2. Commercial design work.
1988–1990
Freelance design work
1986–1988
Drumchapel News
Design Worker
Jack-of-all-trades graphic work in a small team on a community newspaper. Layout, paste-up, advert design, reprographics, photography.
1995
Mayfest Brochure
Designed and produced artwork for 44 page brochure for Glasgow’s month-long international arts festival.
1996–2008
Variant
Redesigned at relaunch, and layed out all 32 issues of a tabloid newspaper format magazine of arts, culture and political comment.
Corporate ID
Designed logos and identities for: E Force 1990, Mayfest 1995, Brel Bar Restaurant 1998, Adlib Restaurant 2000, ThinkArt Lab 2002, Serge Bar Restaurant 2008.
1995–1998
Glasgow College of Building & Printing
HNC Electronic Publishing day-release
1981–1983
Glasgow School of Art
2 years of BA Fine Art Course
1975–1981
Hyndland Secondary School
5 Higher Grades: English B, Maths A, Art C, Physics B, Chemistry C
4 Ordinary Grades: Arithmetic, History, French, Music
Expert user of Adobe Creative Studio (Photoshop, Express, Dreamweaver, InDesign, GoLive, Flash). Fluent user of Quark XPress, Macromedia Freehand, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Apple iWork (Pages, Keynote)
I love music (retro, kitsch, or anything), movies (old and new), books (factual or otherwise).
I participate in Distributed Proofreaders, an international project digitising copyright-free literature: http://www.pgdp.net/
My blog about strange old records: http://isaachate.blogspot.com/
Available on request.