Simeon Jackson

It was a number of years ago when I first was asked whether I would produce a website design for Nicholas Vanburgh Ltd, an architectural firm in mid-Norfolk specialising in historic architectural developments. The website project was put on hold whilst the company gathered content to put on the site.  I produced a website design that worked and posted the contact page to the website so that the website wasn’t completely empty during construction.

It wasn’t until recently, however, that the website design came into the forefront again and I have been beginning working with the company to create a website design that suits their needs, both visually and practically.  It needed to look professional and elegant, but not fussy, and to evoke the feeling of the company’s ethos, which is essentially that of respecting traditional design and construction whilst still pushing forward into the realms of the architectural unknown.

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Adobe Photoshop skills are useful in many modern professions, whether or not they are directly based around graphic design.  My own proficiency with the program has grown out of a keen interest in graphic design, fantasy art and computing.

This series of images were created to demonstrate the lighting characteristics of a few spaces in the building that my group and I designed for a studio project at Penn State University.  The project brief was to design a “Signature” building for the College of Engineering and therefore they wanted spaces which would speak out engineering, sustainable concepts and would include natural daylighting.

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