Andrew Harrison – Creative Director
Andrew, who set up people in 1995, has over 25 years of experience in the design industry working with some of the UK’s leading companies, initially working as a retail graphic designer with brands such as Clarks Shoes and Caffe Nero, he then went on to work in the Corporate world on numerous Annual Reports, floatation proposals, presentations and exhibitions. His experience also covers working in the Charity Sector, working with many of the major charities, VSO, The Alzheimer’s Society, Booktrust and National Literacy Trust. His personal approach and eye for detail has been very successful in this sector and has helped these organisations develop strong communications, winning a media award with VSO for his work on their magazine. Whether you require a simple web holding page or complete rebrand with full CMS website he and his experienced team can help you.
Sian Dinsdale – Website Designer
Sian has over 20 years of experience in the creative industry. She has vast experience as a website designer creating solutions that are are built to provide scalable, flexible platforms to expand business ideas which include search engine and data management functions. Sian has a fantastic creative awareness of what clients need to help their digital designs look amazing and work seamlessly in the digital space. We can create, build and host a simple website through to a fully content managed e-commerce database system, our SEO focused custom websites are built on feature-rich platforms like WordPress that deliver a great user experience.
Simon Edge – WordPress web developer
Simon has been part of the team for over 9 years. He has been a coder for 30 years and has specialised in WordPress development for the past 11 years. He has extensive knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, CSS and MySQL, all of which are required in order to be a full-stack WordPress developer. We strongly focus on developing responsive WordPress websites and this is an area Simon excels in – all our client’s websites work seamlessly on all mobile platforms. Often he has to cater for a client’s request for custom functionality to be built into a website, or a request for a customised Ecommerce solution built using the WooCommerce platform. As well as WordPress website development, Simon has developed a successful and established WordPress plugin called ‘Slide Anything’. His development skill is a great addition to our web dev team.
Simon Bere – Copywriter
https://www.simonbere.com/
A career spanning decades working with some of the most respected brands, agencies and individuals in advertising; winning business, winning awards, winning customers.
After first spells as a copywriter in b2b and design agencies, Joined Holmes Knight Ritchie, later TBWA. Quickly won awards and recognition on Nikon, Bristol & West and The Macallan.
THE NINETIES Cont’d at TBWA working on famous campaigns including Wonderbra and Absolut vodka and Nissan plus a rarely lovable award-winning campaign for the Sun Newspaper. Created the Playstation ‘Symbols’ campaign, a multi-award winner for me and for years after, many others.
THE NOUGHTIES Rainey Kelly Y&R. CD on Virgin, News Intl, Royal Navy, Jose Cuervo. Then joint ECD at Leith London running accounts from Hotpoint cookers to cooking lager (Sorry Carling). Followed Carling to Beattie McGuinness Bungay, helping them to win clients like Ikea, Thomson Holidays, McCain, Microsoft and become Agency of the year in 2008.
THE TENS Cont’d creating and nurturing mould-breaking work for Ikea, Ing Direct and Yorkshire Tea. Later became Creative Head at M&C Saatchi Accelerator working with start-ups and more mature businesses with an urgent, impatient need for results. Freelancing since 2019.
THE TWENTIES Recent clients include: Engine (House 337), Leo Burnett, facebook, Ogilvy, The & Partnership, Specsavers, Red Brick Road.
Owen Pomery – Illustrator and Designer
https://owenpomery.com/
Owen’s background is architecture and after qualifying he worked as a freelance for several years, providing a service for many practices and specialising in architecture, landscape and urban design. Now Owen has combined his love of sketching and design flair to forge a career in illustration. He is as happy making on the spot sketches at events and on location as he his working up professional frames in the studio, and brings a unique, tailored style to all the work he undertakes. Owen has been published in magazines, books and websites. https://owenpomery.com/
