John Ferguson

i am freelance artworker. i either work from home or go in to a studio to work. i have worked in a few studios in both harrogate and leeds in quite different surroundings, from the small friendly type to what i would call the 'battery fed' type. i prefer the small, friendly studios. from home i have done quite a lot of localisation work - translation of documents, catalogues, flyers, adverts into other language/s - using software such as indesign, quark xpress, illustrator and ms word. i have also taken on pure artworking, á la you design it and i'll artwork it. this has been done for a few national companies. both the abovei use either email or ftp (and skype mores nowadays as you are visible to your client). i have been involved, on the outskirts, of web design. mainly in re-design (re-facing) and copy input and quality control (is it in the right place and is it english?). i am not a web monkey. packaging: whilst working in the seychelles (government) i had to produce various packag