Welcome. My name is Chris Borrowdale a designer & developer from Newcastle, UK
This is my online home, where you can find out about me, the kind of services I offer, have a look at some of my previous work as well as reading my blog, or you can skip ahead and get in touch!
Imago Web Solutions
Website Design | 19th July 2009
Imago web solutions are a computer security firm, they wanted a website design to incorporate their newly designed logo and to try and give the company a more professional look. One key part of the brief…
High Hopes
Print Design | 3rd August 2010
High Hopes Out of School Club required a booklet to be designed to showcase what the out of school club has to offer to prospective parents, as well as detailing policies and other critical information to existing parents…
Moments in Time
Print Design | 13th June 2009
Moments in time, a photography company based in the US, required a business card design to allow them to increase their exposure as well as creating a new brand in the process. The company was keen to try and …
Recently on the Blog
A bit of an update!
Well as you can see the site is back! After a downtime of around six months I thought it was time to pull my finger out and get a new site launched. This current version is the fourth iteration of the site in the past two years, I wasn’t too sure about where I wanted to go with the design, I have a huge interest in typography so typography based websites are a big appeal to me. However I chose to go down a different route and design the site around the idea of space and the moon with rockets, spaceships and the moon surface as the footer. The code at the minute I’ll admit is not great, this was mainly down to server issues which meant I lost the theme so had to completely start over. This will all change however in the next few weeks when I’ll be rolling out a HTML5 and CSS3 version complete with media queries, which are going to be a very important feature of the new CSS3 specification in the next few years with more people and clients wanting mobile websites. You might ask then, why launch the site if you know the code isn’t great, well I wanted to get the site back and also because I was having a lot of requests from clients to have a look at my work so rather than having to send them to a holding page, I can now send them to a portfolio page! That’s about it really it was just to be a quick post explaining that the site is back, however I’m not, as of today (30th August 2010) I will be off on holiday for a week. So when I get back, work will begin on getting my head around HTML5 and responsive design. Wish me luck!
A bit about me
I'm Chris Borrowdale a 19 year old designer and developer, I was born in a small village outside of Newcastle, UK. Currently I'm in my second year of a four year course at the University of Lincoln studying Web Technology. I have always had a huge interest in computing and the web, I started design and developing websites when I first started secondary school helped by friends Dad who owned a web design agency. Throughout secondary school I began learning different programming languages such as…
Contact
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Email: chris@chrisborrowdale.co.uk
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Telephone: 07947133554
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Skype: cborrowdale
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Linkedin: chrisborrowdale
Testimonials
We hired Chris to design our business cards, we wanted a nice and simple design and try to keep the minimal theme we had through the logo — Moments in Time
Chris produced a range of different things for us including a brochure, website and an invoicing system to help aid the company, everything was produced to a high standard and the communication was great! — High Hopes
