About Me - Richard Crediton-Hughes
In a more innocent time I worked as a silk screen printer. I worked on press, but felt more comfortable in pre-press, where a little artistic flair was required. My introduction to computers was a baptism of fire - In 1979 I was helping to design Prestel pages for the 'new' on-line reservations system 'Skytrack' which was going to revolutionalise the air travel industry. It didn't, but it helped at the time. My earliest computer assisted design/DTP efforts were created on an Atari ST using a program called 'Calamus' - it took ages for a page re-draw so best practice dictated getting the text as right as possible to avoid edits. I was given a PC by a friend who could make no sense of the 'bleeding thing', resulting in my introduction briefly to Windows 3.5 then '95, 98, NT, Millenium, 2000, XP, Vista and now Windows 7. Alongside this painful growth I worked on Macs, from the Classic to the Mac Pro I'm working on now. Built for design, expensive but worth the investment. Over the years I seen so much software come and go. My early clients had work designed for them in Corel Draw and Quark 3. I then worked using Illustrator alongside Photoshop. A new job introduced me to Freehand, a terrific platform, sadly now going to dust. Needless to say as time has passed I've had to keep in step with developments, and I'll admit it has got easier to design on a computer as more feature rich software has become available. Today I work mainly using InDesign, Quark has finally taken an expensive back seat! I'm fully conversant with most design packages. This simple web site (produced in Dreamweaver) is my first 'css' driven effort!
Rich Art
Rich Art just happened as a part of my freelance activities. For a long while I worked with a close friend on his jazz label 'Frog'. The early efforts were, by today's standards, pretty dire. With hand held scanners which only output black and white, artwork produced on a dot matrix printer, which a litho printer then had to make some sense of - overall I think we did pretty good. And early efforts are here, cringe-worthy though some might be. A homage to my early pioneering days! In 2001 my freelance activities led me to working in Denmark Street, (London's Tin Pan Alley) in London's West End, designing advertising and POS support for 10 music shops, working very closely with a major player in amplifier manufacture, I enjoyed a few years of insanity there as Advertising Manager, before coming full circle back to my home studio.
I'm always on-line rich@rich-art.co.uk