About Sven

Personal Statement

Professional Summary

I am an interdisciplinary designer and educator based in Cambridge, UK, working with clients locally and remotely worldwide. Over more than 20 years I have worked across advertising, multimedia and higher education. Today I work freelance on web design and front-end development, UI/UX, 3D visualisation and print.

That range is deliberate. I have built websites and brand identities in commercial studios, produced 3D visualisation and heritage digitisation work, and spent much of my career teaching design, including as an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and, more recently, as a part-time lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. Teaching keeps my practice current, and it means I can explain the reasoning behind a decision rather than simply hand over files.

Clients tend to find me when a project sits between disciplines: a site that needs to be properly built rather than assembled from a page builder, a brand identity that has to hold up in print and on screen, or a space that needs to be seen before it is made. I am available for freelance projects in Cambridge and remotely.

Personal Summary

Outside client work I am drawn to games, history, heritage and culture. I have lived and worked across the UK, into Europe and around Asia, and the instinct that takes me somewhere new and works out how it fits together is much the same one I bring to a design problem.

I stay involved in the communities around my work. In Singapore I served as Chapter President of the VR/AR Association, and in Malta I volunteered as a 3D designer with Heritage Malta and on digitisation at the Notarial Archives. I like projects with some history or curiosity behind them, and I am always happy to talk about the strange corners of a brief.

• Roles I have Held

  The following is a list of all the roles I have held, starting with the most recent:

  • Part-Time Lecturer – Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
  • Malta Notarial Archives – Digitisation (Volunteer)
  • Freelance Interdisciplinary Designer, Malta
  • Heritage Malta – 3D Designer (Volunteer)
  • Software Trainer (Adult Education), Tertiary Courses, Singapore
  • Singapore Chapter President, VR/AR association, Singapore (Volunteer)
  • Chapter Vice President, Business Networking International, Singapore (Volunteer)
  • Self Employed Designer/Consultant, Singapore
  • Part-Time Lecturer – School of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
  • Part-Time Lecturer – School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
  • Chair of Publicity & Outreach Committee, School of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
  • Assistant Professor & Area Co-Ordinator of Interactive Media Department, School of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
  • Self-Employed Freelancer, London
  • Multimedia Developer, Surrey, UK
  • University Teaching Assistant, Thames Valley University, London

Academic

• Courses Taught

  The following are courses I have taught and created:

  Semester Courses

  Semester-based courses taught to undergraduates at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

  • UI/UX (39 hours)
  • Web Design – HTML,CSS and intro to Javascript (39 hours)
  • Game Design (78 hours)

  Short Courses

  Short courses – Generally 1-2 day adult education workshops.
  I taught the following at Tertiary Courses, Singapore

  • Introduction to Real-time Environments with Unity (1 day)
  • Augmented Reality Mobile Apps for Android (1 day)
  • Architectural Visualization with Autodesk 3ds Max (1 or 2 days)
  • 3D modelling for Games with Autodesk 3ds Max (1 day)
  • CAD modelling for Fabrication/3D Printing with Autodesk Inventor (1 day)
  • HTML & CSS – Introduction to web-based fundamentals (2 days intensive)

Events