About me - the dood behind the website...

Creativity is a force of nature. It will always try to find an outlet, no matter what. Like the tender shoot that pushes up through the soil to find the sunlight.

The ramblings STORY of Dave Dennis...

Design & Music - the two great loves of my life (apart from my family of course - love you sweetheart)! When I'm not designing something I'm playing guitar or bass or singing. I have a key role in the running of a music team at our local church. The group is now about 50 people strong and growing. Loads'a'music happening there!

My creative mind has always been fascinated with what can be done using a computer as a tool for the imagination to express ideas. I have a great love / hate relationship with this box of silicon, metal and plastic that occupies so much of my time. How far we've come since I first typed out some BASIC programming code on a DEC workstation at school in 1982!

Yep, it was a while ago. I graduated Yr 12 in 1985 in Sydney, Australia. A great place to grow up I might add. From there I went to University to study a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering. Even when was studying that I think what emerged was my real interest in computer graphics, CG and CAD. I left that after completing just two years out of 6 (so no degree for me - sorry Dad).

Took a coupla years off. Went to the UK, got married and bought an airbrush.

Remember those? People still use 'em for painting models or decorating vans, but I started pursuing my interest in illustrators and designers whose work I admired so much. Check out Roger Dean, Rodney Matthews, Chris Foss and just about anything else published by Paper Tiger or Dragon's Dream (both started by Roger & Martyn Dean).

Upon returning to Australia at age 20 I entered into 1 year of Fine Arts, followed by an Associate Diploma in Graphic Design. I was part of the first graduating year of Graphic Design at Hornsby TAFE in 1992.

I worked for a year at a signage place (frustrating!!!), then worked for a printer as a finished artist/designer for a year. This was actually really instructive and helpful. All print designers would befit from really knowing the print procss well. It would save a lot of hassle and reprints! (Not to mention last minute conversions from RGB...)

After that I spent the next 10 years working as part of a great team at Chris Perry Graphic Design, which became Chris Perry Design, then CPDM, then finally Numinos Creative. A great time, in which I worked on many and varied projects from CD album artwork for clients such as Hillsong Australia, Retail Packaging for Gloria Jeans Coffees, websites, Annual Reports, video, motion graphics, 3D animation and DVD menu design.

In early 2005 the pressures between employment, family life, church involvements and increasing demand for freelance design work brought me to the decision that it was time to go 'solo' and begin working full-time freelance. Which brings me to where I am today. Enjoying work and life in general, and pursuing all the creative things I love to do...

Perhaps I can use my creative talents to help you also?