About Matt Gibson
I am a 23 year old multimedia and web designer and developer based in North London/Hertfordshire currently working as a 'Senior Web Production and Marketing Manager' for multi-award winning digital agency, Cyber-Duck. My roles include project leading/management, design, coding, animation and online marketing. Oh, and making the best coffees known to man. I create and build appealing, easy to use and functional web and multimedia interfaces based on user-centric design principles which comply with W3C web accessibility standards.
In November 2007, I was the BIMA award (which celebrates excellence in interactivity and multimedia) winner within the student category for Dead On Arrival (read more), a project I co-created with Geoff Gaviria as part of our final year student projects when studying at UEL. The award was announced at the glamorous awards gala ceremony held in the Midnight Gardens, Truman Galleries in East London.
In May 2007, I graduated from UEL with First Class Honours in 'Interactive Media Design' BA (Hons). At my graduation I was announced as one of the final year prize winners, being awarded "Outstanding Academic Achievement in Interactive Media".
Since as far back as I can remember, I have been into my art and creating things, whether it was from simply doodling away in classes to spending hours working on little creative projects at home. Today I still have that same enthusiasm for the area, which is why I studied Interactive Media Design at degree level. Not only did this course allow me to pursue my passion, but it also allowed me to further my scope for design and development with modules focusing on many areas such as; static and dynamic web design, interactive animation and games, designing for print, photography, 3D modelling and interactive virtual environment building and implementing, filmmaking and video editing, and also audio editing and manipulation. Since joining Cyber-Duck, I have learnt a lot more about user-centric design / user pyschology, technical & creative skills, and online marketing / SEO.
The software I currently use to design and develop multimedia projects and websites are; Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Director, Maya and 3DS Max amongst others. I hand code sites and other multimedia with meaningful, valid and search engine friendly XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Actionscript, Lingo and much consideration for the end-user.
