_Rob Barrett – Public Portrait – @robbarrett

Website : http://rob-barrett.com
Twitter : @robbarrett

Hi, I’m Rob Barrett, graphic and web designer, illustrator, backpacker, and serial tea drinker. I’m currently living and working for myself in South London.

I’ve always been creative, ever since I started scribbling on the walls, and — apart from a brief period of wanting to be an archaeologist, until I realised the difference between the reality of the job and that of a certain fedora-wearing adventurer — I’ve always aimed to be in an artistic line of work.

I’ve travelled pretty extensively in the last few years, and I think it was the eye-opening resulting from that that made me decide to opt for on-the-job training rather than the more usual university route. I feel it was the right path for me, as it allowed me to carry on indulging in my love of travelling, plus it let me justifiably sneer at layabout student friends.

Thanks to my dad, I’ve always been computer-savvy, and I can remember putting together my first websites back when Amazon was new and Geocities was one of the pinnacles of the web’s achievements. I’ve been playing around with web and design software ever since, and more seriously since I got my first proper agency job in 2004.

Most recently, I’ve been meeting some great people through Twitter, and I definitely feel that the contact there has spurred me on immensely over the last six months. I’ve been spending my time learning the ins-and-outs of WordPress, and I’d like to start generating more business on the print design and illustration side of things.

Rob