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Director
Simon Leadbetter
Simon is our Creative Director as well as a designer, web developer and the official tea boy. With over 25 years design experience working with clients from International brands to arts festivals, he is adept at finding the perfect creative solutions.
Simon is proud to break the misnomer about the types of people with dominant left/right brain activity – equally loving both the creative process of design and the logical skillset to develop sophisticated websites. In fact, he has been developing websites professionally since 1995 (essentially from the beginning), which we think makes him a rare breed. Of what species, we are uncertain.
He loves typography and is a stickler for punctuation and good grammar. More than that he cares about kindness and promotes it at every opportunity.
In his spare time Simon can be found scaling mountains on multi-day hikes with a spot of wild camping squeezed in for good measure. If he is unable to get to the mountains then his other eclectic hobbies include running, bushcraft or carving things out of wood.
Likes and dislikes
Likes
- Mountains
- Kindness
- Music (most genres)
- Woodwork
Dislikes
- Monarchy
- The word passionate
- Sugar
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Simon's Latest Activity
20 June 2023
Steps required to add localisation to a Craft website
06 July 2022
Checking and clearing sharing data captured by Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
24 January 2022
A post about a post
20 October 2021
Do not open links in a new tab or window
21 September 2021
This calculator is the best in the world and a design classic!
16 July 2021
Phrases inspired by the letterpress
More of the team
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