Trainers
Our trainers are all experts in their fields. They work in the industry as creatives and developers, and have proven teaching as well as technical skills.
Nigel French
Nigel French has more than 15-years experience as a graphic designer and graphic design educator. He is the former director of the graphic design program at University of California, Berkeley Extension and has taught various aspects of graphic design in colleges. An Adobe Certified trainer and Certified Instructor, he is author of InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign, and Photoshop Unmasked: The Art and Science of Selections, Layers, and Paths, as well as an author for the Lynda.com online training library. He lives in England--but left his heart in San Francisco. Examples of his work can be seen at nigelfrench.com
Paul Greenstein
Paul is a director of the company, and has been delivering training & consultancy and developing print, multimedia and online projects for 'years'. Paul is an Adobe Certified Instructor, and concentrates on CSS, HTML, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash. Paul designs and builds websites, and is responsible for the Ubiq website. He spends much of his spare time playing and composing music, some of which can be heard at www.audiovert.com.
Greg Jones
Greg is a London based photographer and artist. He has a Masters in Photography from the Royal College of Art and exhibits his photography. He is also an experienced tutor with a teaching qualification. Greg has worked on a wide range of projects: producing screen and web graphics, publications, and large scale photographic prints for exhibition. He has been training people in the use of Photoshop for five years and is an Adobe Certified Expert. Greg devised and runs our Photoshop for Photographers courses.
Chakib Labidi
Originally from Berlin Chakib is a London based designer with a Masters in Product Design from the UdK Berlin. He runs his own company for contemporary interiors and accessories for animals and their owners. He has been delivering training in higher and further education for many years and has been employed as a consultant by serveral international agencies. Chakib is an Adobe Certified Instructor, and specialises in Photoshop, inDesign and Illustrator. He is also a passionate singer and spends his spare time composing music.
Richard Lord
Richard is something of a renaissance man, having a background which includes Choreography, Mathematics, Multimedia and a diverse range of programming languages including Actionscript, Lingo, PHP & C#. Richard Delivers our Actionscript and XML courses. His website is a great showcase for his games development projects, Actionscript innovations and more, and can be found at: www.bigroom.co.uk.
Mal Woolford
Mal is a screenwriter and experimental filmmaker with over 10 years' experience ranging from HD and digital cinema through traditional 16mm and tape routes for broadcast to processing super8 film by hand. Final Cut Pro is his tool of choice, right up there with a pencil and paper. And a laptop. During his Introduction to Final Cut Pro you'll be working with material from a range of formats and genres. You can see a selection of his work at www.malwoolford.com.
