Reliable, creative designer that always delivers top quality. A strong communicator, consistently able to generate original creative solutions, visuals, and amazing ideas.

'Gather round me people there's a story I would tell. About a brave young Indian you should remember well. From the land of the Pima Indian. A proud and noble band. Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land...'

Having been inspired by a Johnny Cash song, Apache Design was born...

A creative and experienced non-so-young Indian brave who has worked both within a London creative agency environment, and also as an in-house designer.

Recent work includes: book illustration & design, web design, short film writing, storyboarding, kids book illustration, music video ideas, logo design...

Links:

Full portfolio: www.christopher-watson.co.uk
Book design and illustration: www.powerofpersonality.com.
Music video ideas: http://www.spicerandmoore.com/

Skills:

• Mac and PC literate. Extensive experience with Indesign, Quark, Illustrator,
Photoshop, Freehand, Acrobat / Distiller, Dreamweaver, Flash, HTML
• Design for print, packaging, web and DVD
• Strategic communication planning, identifying client values, USPs,
and creating and maintaining a brand
• Creative thinking, generating fresh ideas, names and approaches
• Strong print process knowledge, repro skills and experience
• High level illustration, and photo sourcing and manipulation skills
• Professional standard photograph retouching skills (e.g images used in Vogue
and Marie Claire magazines and London Underground ads)
• End to end responsibility for designing, illustrating and manufacturing
a wide range of music products, e.g. CD, DVD, digipak, 7 and 12” vinyl etc.
• Built and successfully managed design dept. for CD

Work Terms

I work remotely in my teepee (okay, no more Indian references), but I'm always contactable and keep my clients fully updated. I'm looking for people with similar work ethics, so together we can produce great work.