About Me
Hello!
I’m Anna, and at the moment I’m studying towards a degree in Computing and Design, and pursuing my lifelong dream to become a designer.
I’ve wanted to be an artist ever since I was old enough to hold a pencil.
As a child of the 90s, I have grown up with technology. In the picture above, I’m 1 year old and already learning how to use a computer.
I was 14 when I made my first website as a way to keep in contact with my friends. It was like an online scrapbook with a profile page for each friend, and stories of what we got up to.
Back then, I used a very old version of Microsoft Frontpage. When my school installed the Macromedia (now Adobe) suite on their system, I would spend my ICT lessons playing around in awe with Fireworks, Flash, Freehand and Dreamweaver when I should have been learning how to mail merge and position text in Microsoft Word.
I asked my school if I could buy a copy through them, and they were great and sent off a form to Macromedia. I now had some really cool software to play around with!
4 years later and I’m still making websites in between studying. I’m doing work experience at a Flash design company called Kempt with some really inspiring guys, and I’m also freelancing as a web designer.
I love taking photos too, and you can see ones I’ve uploaded Flickr.
In February, I entered Veerle’s ‘What is Graphic Design?’ competition, and my poster was displayed here on her website along with 48 others that grabbed her attention. Although it didn’t win, I was honoured that it was one of the few picked out of over 600 entries.
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Abbey C of E JMI - Jan 1995 to July 2000
St Albans Girls’ School - Sept 2000 to 2008
Qualifications:
A-Level Results Summer 2008
- Product Design with Graphic Materials A
- Media Studies B
- ICT C
GCSE Results, Summer 2006
- Mathematics B
- English A
- Science Double Award A A
- ICT Full Course A
- Business Studies A
- Media Studies B
- Spanish A*
- Graphic Products A*
- Religious Studies A
Other Qualifications
- Member of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth
- Lewis Berkley Chorister with the St Albans Abbey Girls’ Choir 1998-2004
- BA Crest Award Silver
- Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award
- Red Cross First Aid Certificate
- Karate red belt
- “Top Juicy Smiler” Award 2007 – Zest Juice Bar
Interests and Activities:
- Drawing and Animation
- Photography
- Playing the Guitar and writing music
- Cycling and Archery
Work Experience:
- Weekly Paper Round from February 2003 to April 2006
- Work experience at Sainsbury’s Plc – One week, June 2005
- Juicette at Zest Juice bar St Albans - From April 2006 to January 2008
- Work Experience at Kempt Ltd in St Albans - From October 2007
My Photos
