2 | About Rhys Jones
Born Rhys Jones during the year of the dog in a small suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. I have grown up loving design and art as a whole. Having tried my hand at various forms of art from painting, sketching, sculpture, photography and graphic design, I finally settled on graphic design as my love true love (photography came in a very close second).
I studied graphic design for two years at high school before heading out into tertiary education where I studied IT, multimedia and graphic design at Natcoll for two years. Some of the work that I did during those two years can be found in my portfolio. After finishing up my studies I went out into the work force applying for multimedia, graphic design and web design jobs only to find I was caught right in the middle of a Catch-22. No one wants to hire a bright eyed, bushy tailed, straight out of studenthood kid with no work experience. Fast running out of money with no real hope of cracking the design industry any time soon I bit the bullet and took a job at Foodstuffs filling grocery orders from major supermarkets around my region.
After six to eight months of working 3pm – 12am Adele and I packed up our gear and moved to Canberra, Australia for Adele to pursue her PhD scholarship and for me to find work. I tried my hand at a few freelance projects in the first year of being here, but soon discovered that I was not quite ready for that, so I decided I needed some real industry experience first. Within the first month of applying for web design/multimedia jobs I was offered two jobs, for the first time in my life I had options. I decided to take the job at Tower Software based on the variety of work I would be doing.
My job roles include:
- Website maintenance
- Website design
- Magazine advertisements
- Product interface design
- Icon design
- Logo design
- Brochure layout and design
- Testing of their web content management system
Within the first couple of weeks of being at Tower Software I was hijacked by a R&D group who were working on a product called ice. During the time I spent with the ice team I provided the graphical interface, web templates (basic xhtml and css), icons and the projects logo. Since then (late 2005), I have redesigned the Tower Software website, helped with implementing their public facing site into their newly acquired product WCM (Web Content Management), done general graphic design work for advertisements, brochures and annual reports.
Recently I have been working on the implementation of Tower Software's customer extranet and partner portal inside of WCM so all content can be managed by the relevant parties, instead of having to rely on the web guy to update the pages all the time.
However my life is not all corporate work. I've done work for bands from around the world, for friends locally and for whoever else needs my help. I am very open to other projects that maybe you or a friend of yours has in mind, so please do not hesitate to contact me if you think you could use my skills in your next project.