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.

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Having played an integral part in establishing a theatre on Wirral, I subsequently worked as the in-house designer of a Liverpool-based screen-printing and sign-writing company, whose clients included many theatres, museums and Arts organisations, as well as all of the local major Advertising and Design Agencies. Anything went, from bus sides to banners, posters to point-of-sale displays, huge signboards to full-scale exhibitions, and even some advertising...

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The next move was across the Mersey to a Wirral-based design agency who majored in work for the industrial and technological sectors.  After a couple of years, following their relocation to Runcorn and subsequent (unfortunate, no fault of their own) demise, I was head-hunted back to the same Birkenhead building to be Creative Director of a family-run Advertising Agency. I was responsible for the complete creative output of the organisation, leading a team of designers in producing a wide range of mixed-media solutions for a diverse collection of clients in many fields.

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In the late 1990s, 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, like Johnnie Walker, 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.