Hello, Bonjour, Shwmae!

I'm Arron, a designer and developer based in Bristol.

Curiosity Saved The Cat

Meow

The rumours are true.

I am a freakishly design-driven developer who has a deep interest in helping craft successful products that put the wow in mewow.

Okay, forgive me, that’s one of my nine lives lost.

There’s no secret. I combine my design chops with writing code. I don’t compromise on the details that matter. These include Performance, Accessibility, Usability, Good Design and User Experience.

Whatever the project, I can be found bridging the gap between disciplines. Drawing on my six years experience working in different roles within the design and web industry, I have the knowhow to help you achieve your project goals.

Skills

  • Digital Design
  • Front-end Developer
  • Art Director
  • Branding
  • User Experience
  • Creative Thinker
  • Accessibility
  • Sustainable Dev

Recent Web Projects

Alfie Templeman X Minecraft

360 / Front-end Development

Alfie Templeman's Store

Alfie Templeman X Minecraft

360 / Front-end Development

A 360 web-store for Alfie Templeman’s virtual festival in Minecraft. The user can pan around and interact with products as if in Minecraft. The store fully functioned and allowed fans to purchase merch.

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Date: 

Agency: PrettyGood

CMS: Static

Aitch – Close To Home

Front-end Development

Aitch - Close To Home - website homepage

Aitch – Close To Home

Front-end Development

Re-skin for the ‘Close To Home’ campaign. The site includes a custom film strip navigation.

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Date: 

Agency: PrettyGood

CMS: WordPress

Sam Smith – Love Me More

Design / Front-end Development / UX

Love Me More -Sam Smith UI

Sam Smith – Love Me More

Design / Front-end Development / UX

This project for Capitol Records and Sam Smith was produced to promote the singers new album. Fans were able to upload or take photos within the browser and apply filters and messages. These images were added to a pubic gallery.

Date: 

Agency: PrettyGood

CMS: WordPress

George Ezra – Gold Rush Kid

Front-end Development

Gold Rush Kid

George Ezra – Gold Rush Kid

Front-end Development

Promotional site for George Ezra’s album Gold Rush Kid. Website management, updates and new features for the highly interactive site.

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Date: 

Agency: PrettyGood

Lime Venue Portfolio

Art Direction / Front-end Development / Sustainable Dev

Lime Venue Portfolio

Art Direction / Front-end Development / Sustainable Dev

A new site build for the UK’s most trusted Venue Finder. With the focus on showcasing the venues, we stripped back the design, added new personalised features and custom venue pages. The site was also built with sustainable web practices.

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Date: 

Agency: Pretty Pragmatic

CMS: Umbraco

Chartwells

Front-end Development

Chartwells Website Home page

Chartwells

Front-end Development

UK’s leading school catering company. The CMS contains highly complex custom styling options as the brand is split into divisions, each with their own branding, therefore blocks needed to be built with considered logic.

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Date: 

Agency: Pretty Pragmatic

CMS: Umbraco

UMG Green Challenge

Design / Full-Stack / UX

UMG Green Team UI

UMG Green Challenge

Design / Full-Stack / UX

Internal site for Universal Music Group. As part of Earth Month, employees competed in carbon cutting endeavours. Dynamic custom posts, carbon calculations, progress tracking and leader-boards were included.

Date: 

Agency: PrettyGood

CMS: WordPress

Harboured Reality

AR / Full-Stack / Interaction Design / UX

Harboured Reality

AR / Full-Stack / Interaction Design / UX

An interactive Web Augmented Reality heritage experience for mobile browsers. Research, Design, UX, Full-stack Development, Mixed-media Content Creation and 3D rendering.

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Date: 
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Recent Design Projects

Radicle

Branding / Graphic Design

Radicle

Radicle

Branding / Graphic Design

Logo and branding design for a sustainable architect working with natural materials.

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Date: 

Agency: Rotorotor

Pretty Pragmatic – Brand Refresh

Branding / Graphic Design

We make brands perform

Pretty Pragmatic – Brand Refresh

Branding / Graphic Design

A playful brand refresh for Pretty Pragmatic – a performance marketing agency based in Bristol.

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Date: 

Agency: PrettyPragmatic

Logofolio

Branding / Graphic Design

Lemon Press, black on yellow background. A silhouetted lemon cross-section that also appears as a film reel with celluloid unspawling away from the lemon.

Logofolio

Branding / Graphic Design

A collection of logos designed over the last few years. From film to politics to music and construction.

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Races EP Cover

Graphic Design / Promotion

EP with disc sliding from cover. The cover artwork is pink and black with film strips of horse running intercut with a naked man running.

Races EP Cover

Graphic Design / Promotion

Cover art and promotional design for punk rock band The New America’s EP, titled ‘Going To The Races (Dressed Like A Racist)’.

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Video call illustration in blue

I have availability for your next web or design project. Get in touch, I won’t bite!

Ready when you are
Plant illustration in blue

I don’t always have the time to update my portfolio (because I’m working with some cool cats obvs) but you can view some of my older projects here.

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The Cool Cats

I have worked on projects from local organisations to global brands. Whether within agencies or as freelance I have had the pleasure to collaborate with amazing people and teams. You may recognise some of them below.

A cool cat
  • Universal Music Group
  • Sony Music
  • Heinz
  • Capitol Records
  • Lime Venue Portfolio
  • Compass Group
  • Levy
  • Hearing Direct
  • Compass Ireland
  • 1625 Independent People
  • Underfall Boatyard Trust
  • MANDEM

Get to know me

I like...

Stanley Kubrick Films

Smell of bread baking

Creating.. Creating Stuff

Brutalist Architecture

90s Sketch Shows

Swiss Typography

A crisp bevvy

A strong Oak

British Summer Time

Muddy Festivals

Freddos (when they were 10p)

Illustration of Arron on a video call with cats

I have availability for your next web or design project. Get in touch, I won’t bite!

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