Freelance Graphic Designer
& Artistic Director
What I do...
CREATIVE GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR PRINT & ONLINE
THEATRE PUBLICITY AND PROGRAMMES
BROCHURES, POSTERS & LEAFLETS
JOURNALS & NEWSLETTERS
CORPORATE ID, LOGOS & BRANDING
DISPLAY BANNERS & EXHIBITION PANELS
BOOKS AND ANNUALS
COPYWRITING, PHOTOGRAPHY & ILLUSTRATION
WIX WEBSITE DESIGN
Things I've done...
Below are links to just some examples of my work over the past few years for a huge range of clients, both nearer to home as well as internationally. Simply click on the graphic panels, and a new page will open featuring some examples of my design work in these areas. Please take a look!
Who I am...
Hi there!... my name is Nick Sample and I'm a freelance graphic designer based in Cheshire. I've been working in the creative sector since the early 1980s, and although the technology may have changed dramatically since then, my own ethos of going the extra mile to create and deliver just what the client wants remains exactly the same.
Having graduated from Norwich School of Art in the early 1980s, I subsequently worked as the in-house designer of a Liverpool-based screen-printing and sign-writing company, a Wirral-based design agency and as Creative Director of a Merseyside-based small advertising agency, gaining a wide range of experience with a diverse selection of clients. In July 1997, when that Agency sadly succumbed to one big bad debt too many, I decided to take the plunge and strike out on my own and I'm still going strong!
I offer in-depth project management of design commissions, from the initial client's brief through to the finished products. My creative graphic design is supplemented by photography, illustration and copywriting, and when necessary I work alongside a partner network of professional experts in web, AV and print.
Clients include...
In recent years, my work has been concentrated in designing publicity for theatres and the performing arts. However, since I started as a freelance graphic designer my work has included a wide range of commissions for an extremely diverse selection of clients. They have included,,,
When I'm not designing, one of the things that I continue to love doing is being involved in theatrical productions – both onstage and off. This stems from my first appearance onstage, at the age of 5, as the second wise man (typecast at an early age) in a Nativity play in Australia. Since then, beside having portrayed some fabulous roles onstage, I've apparently gained a bit of a reputation as a director, having helmed everything from musicals to Open-Air Shakespeare. One of my directorial traits during rehearsals is to let the actors go through a whole scene, and then ask them to "do it again – but, this time...". The same thing applies to my creative graphic design work – I'll always want to continue working on something beyond the original parameters of the job to achieve the right results. It's worth it in the end.
