Billy Knapper

Working voluntarily for Curtain Call Productions has allowed me to experiment with different design styles and techniques. I design most of their promotional material including show posters, banner stands and video projection for the performances.

upSTAGE is a new Theatre School based in Nantwich, teaching skills such as Dance, Drama, Set Design, Lighting and creating their own productions.
Designed and built the company’s website as well as setting up social media sites including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. I continue to help design promotional material (posters, letters. I also operated the sound and lighting during the workshops and performances and assist in delivering workshops when I'm available.

Quayside Creative is a marketing company based in Nantwich, designing websites, posters, brochures and other promotional material for local business and events. During my time with them I learnt how to maintain websites - quality control checking and uploading information/images - designed adverts for local businesses for ‘The Link’ magazine using Photoshop as well as general office tasks such as assembling brochures, data entry and organising invoices.

CNBC design and print promotional material for their wide range of services in the community, including sport and health centres/facilities. I learnt about mass printing techniques and professional professional design software packages (Quark Xpress and CorelDRAW) to design a print-ready poster. I also gained experience with job sheets to work towards and create multiple mock-ups for a design.