08 May 09 Dave Yates – Designer

This website is a sort of catchall for lots of things that I do. The work half of me is  designer and marketer. I have designed high profile things like parts of the Egg website, much of Bank of Scotland, mountaineering clothing, a travel clothing range, award winning advertising for Daewoo, Ricoh Cameras and Mamiya. I have been marketing manager of companies such as Rohan, Karrimor and Regatta.

I was drawn towards the creative aspects of marketing and eventually left marketing management and set out on a career as a copywriter where I freelanced articles in specialist publications, national papers and also magazines such as Outdoors Illustrated and Punch.  I became a self-taught graphic designer and honed the skills eventually winning a clutch of awards for design and even publishing books on the subject.

I later took post graduate qualifications in multimedia design, qualifying in Design management and interactive multimedia. I spent some time working for BP as their Global Project manager and then as Head of Design at a plc software firm specialising in financial services. I worlked on Money Xtra, Egg.com, Bank of Scotland, Sony Cards and Clerical Medical amongst other projects.

These days I am combining all these skills and experiences by marketing, writing and designing for companies big and small.