Welcome to GL Creative the home of London based Digital Designer Gareth Leahy. I have over 5 years experience working in the industry. I'm passionate about design and the web, so I'm fortunate enough to combine these into my work. Please find below a few samples of projects I've worked on. If you like what you see don’t hesitate to email me at gareth@glcreative.co.uk.
Core Skills
- Website Design and Layout
- Flash Design and Motion Graphics
- XHTML and CSS
Nowherefast - Colin Website
This is a site for a production company called Nowherefast promoting a low budget horror film called Colin. To gather interest in the film I set them up Facebook and Myspace groups which have proved to be a great networking exercise. The layout shown is the redesign of their main site, the main feature is the film trailer and the poster, in the secondary panel I've included review comments from film websites.
The Take That Experience
This is one example of the type of work that I did on the O2 Blueroom website. Working within the existing site framework and closely adhering to guidelines in place, I designed promotional sections for bands and performers playing at the O2. The one shown was designed to promote Take That playing at the O2 and encourage fans to send in funny and embarrassing then and now pictures of themselves from back when they first listened to Take That.
Viral Clip
Viral Clip is a content heavy entertainment site, offering videos, games, animation and anything else on the web that's utterly addictive. I designed the layout and navigation of the site including the main templates, forms and basic admin pages. I also created the various buttons and icons used across the site. The project demonstrates my ability to design content heavy pages and keep a user on the site.
O2 Nokia Microsite
This is a Flash microsite to promote Nokia handsets sold by O2. I designed the site and animated several of the handsets within the site including the one shown here. Visitors accessed this site from the O2 shop to view an animation of the handset and show detailed specifications. Strong imagery and good typography helped to sell the phones.
Labrokes PLC Site
This is a content heavy website for the sports betting operator Ladbrokes plc. I designed the site with a view to making it clean and easy to navigate through the content, whilst still retaining a strong brand presence at the top of the site. I then hand coded the site in XHTML and CSS.