John Alistair Perriam
Graphic Designer - Video Editor & Animator

About Me

I am a London born, British-Irish native English-speaking graphic designer, video editor & animator. I do practically all work remotely, and have worked with businesses & agencies worldwide, both freelance and in-house, from regions including the UK, USA, Spain & Africa, providing a reliable service for clients requiring regular & repeat work. I use a fast internet connection, Dropbox, Google Drive and others.

With an original background working for printers & advertising agencies I since moved into animation, video and motion graphics to provide professional multimedia design work for business advertising and social media. Now with the incorporation of AI generated images and video.

When not working I like keeping fit with mountain-biking & martial arts exercises (if not sparring at my age), hobby photography, reading, history & science. I also follow Formula One and the American NFL. Although now UK based, I lived & worked in Spain for many years and can speak, read & write Spanish and still like taking breaks & holidays there.

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Skills:

Graphic design for print, publishing, web & social media:

I work with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator to produce magazines, catalogues & brochure page layouts, adverts, posters, flyers, social media posts, PDFs, technical presentations, signs, & exhibition displays. I have experience with multi-page editorial layouts, understanding both screen 72 dpi RGB and printing 300 dpi CMYK formats, making sure that artwork is prepared pre-press to the correct set-ups, colour profiles, margins, bleeds and image resolutions. Work can be adapted for digital presentation, web design, social media posting, animation and video.

Ai product design and advertising:

Placement of real products in Ai generated photography and video for branding and advertising. Video editing & generation of A & B-Roll footage with consistent images and characters.

Video editing, design & animation:

In long or short form formats. Using Premier Pro, After Effects & CapCut Desktop. Colour correction and grading. Captions & subtitles. Adverts, explainers & podcasts for social media, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram & others. Exhibition and point of sale videos. Incorporation of stock video & AI generated content, music & audio.

Animation:

2D character animation and explainer type video with After Effects. 2D character rigging with Duik Bassel. Incorporation of 3D work with Cinema 4D & Blender. Animated banners & infographics.

Web design:

Website work in HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, W3.CSS, Wordpress & Wix, HTML5 & Gif animations, banners & infographics. Installation of custom made forms.

Qualifications:

British A Level: Art & English literature.
Richmond upon Thames College - Master’s Degree, Graphic Design.

Languages:

English: native speaker educated to British O and A level standard.
Spanish: professional working proficiency: speak/read/write.
French: basic level & currently studying.

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Applications used:

Most major Adobe applications & more...

• InDesign
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• After Effects
• Premiere Pro
• CapCut Pro Desktop
• Acrobat
• Dreamweaver
• Canva
• Figma
• Hype Pro
• Leonardo.ai
• OpenArt.ai
• Runway
• Cinema 4D
• Blender
• Google Gemini
• ChatGPT
• Claude
• Google Web Designer
• SketchUp
• Wordpress
• Bootstrap
• HTML5 & CSS
• W3.CSS

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Resume - mini CV:

Since 2000 I have had considerable experience doing regular production work for businesses and agencies in the UK, USA, Spain and other locations. Clients have included: Andalucian Dream Homes (Spain), Orion Insurance (UK), Alduco SL (Equatorial Guinea & Nigeria), Alduco Energy (USA), Videojug (Spain & UK), Foxton Media (UK), Seek-it Ltd (UK), Andaluz Homes (Spain), Commercial Intelligence Ltd (UK), Spinnaker Waste Management (UK), Apollo MGA Insurance LLC (USA).

Professional Remote Graphics & Video Work
APMXGraphics.com
Nov 2021 - Present
Tavistock area, Devon, UK

Remote graphic design work: video editing - animation - print & web

Graphic Design Business - self employed
Perriam.net
2000 - 2020 yrs
Fuengirola-Mijas , Andalucia, Spain

Graphic Design for web, print & video

Video Editor
Videojug Spain - Hybrid
2006 - 2008 (2 yrs)
Mijas, Andalucia, Spain

Video editing & production of cooking, explainer and instructional type videos

Senior Graphic Designer
Global Media Agency - Full Time
1991 - 2000 (9 yrs)
Marbella, Andalucia, Spain

Senior Graphic Designer

Prior to 1991
Working in London for several years for various advertising agencies and printers.