Liquidlizard...who,What,where?

If your wondering what Liquidlizard is, it's simply my personal network for presenting my latest digital creations.

Who am I?

"Hi, there!" My name is David Ashby, Dave to my friends and I am basically a creative designer in Bristol. I always find it hard to describe my profession in a couple words as I just like crafting so many types of design, including graphic design, photography, web design, illustration, animation, 3D modelling, drawing and video editing.

At the heart of this i'm mostly a graphic designer. I have been one for over 10 years and over time have explored all these other wonderful mediums. I've had many different design jobs for all types of employers and on ocassion do some freelance.

I'm proud to say I hold qualifications such as BA (Hons) first class in graphic design and over the years have studied photography, life drawing and programming. You never stop learning! I'm always on the look out for new skills I can pickup.

I currently work for a Bristol/London based viral marketing agency called Teamrubber and their sister companies RubberRepublic, Delib, RubberDuctions and the Viral Ad Network where I have been dubbed "Digital Designer"....whatever that is :)

A typical day for me would include designing websites, setting up print artwork, animating and coding flash, coming up with concepts and working out user experiences. I'm an avid blogger and currently have 4 blogs including a blog for my latest work, a blog for amazing design stuff i find, my daily iPhone blog (personal thing, has no purpose yet) and a tutorial blog to pass on some of my knowledge.

and when your feet are up?

When i'm not at work, i'm usually doing something else creative. My current passion is photography. I've only had my Olympus DSLR for over a year but already have literally have thousands and thousands of awesome shots as I tried to get down and dirty with every style and techinique professional photography has to offer. I'm happy to say I now have my own photography studio and right now I am working on 2 concepts through this whole year (2010) to get 2 photobooks published in 2011... hopefully.

I also have a comic book series which i've been putting together for over 10 years. A couple years ago I got Vol I printed and am currently looking into modelling the characters in 3D (blender), to blitz through a large chunk of the story and present everthing on a new website. The comic is called Afterdark, and my ultimate plan is to get the story picked up by a cartoon production company who could help me realise my dream.

I'm always on the look out for the next creative event in Bristol and love to meet and talk with other artists, designers and creatives so feel free to hit me up on twitter or email me at dave@liquidlizard.co.uk.