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I'm Tom Prior, a Digital Designer based in Brighton

My story so far.

Photograph of Tom Prior

I grew up around the uncool bits of East London in the 1980's and 90's, and decided I wanted to be an artist aged 5 ½. My first design tool was an Etch A Sketch.

I made my first website in 1999, and in 2002 ventured south to study digital design for three years in the beautiful city of Canterbury. I worked as a designer for agencies in London and Kent before moving to Brighton in 2009.

My skills as a designer include research exercises, user testing, prototyping/wireframing, interaction design, typography, grid-based layout, responsive web design, and standards-based front-end development with HTML and CSS.

I love what I do.

At work

I'm currently working as Creative Lead for Makemedia, a web development agency in Brighton's North Laine.

I've been designing professionally since graduating in 2005. In my current role I oversee the creative direction of online projects from initial discovery sessions through to standards-based front-end fruition.

My work has appeared in industry publications including NET magazine, and Web Designer magazine. I also write about the web (and beyond) in my journal, The Best is Yet to Come.

At play

I design for fun too, contributing visual design and markup to a social bookmarking side-project called Klektd with my friend Andy.

Away from the pixel-wrangling I have an unhealthy obsession with motoring and car culture, and occasionally write about it too.

I'm a Formula One fan, occasional golfist, support Dagenham and Redbridge football club, and laugh out loud at British comedy.

Sites featuring my work

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