Knysna local child, born and bred.

 

Spending the greatest part of my adult life working in the hospitality industry in Knysna.

 

I briefly started studying interior design by correspondence in the early 90s, during which time I discovered computers. Having found no way to incorporate pcs into interior design, I dropped the course, and started a process of discovery which would find me where I am now.

 

I started very basic designs in Print Master on an XT computer with an amber screen running MS Dos 6.2. Later having upgraded to a pc that could run Windows 3.1 and later to Windows 95, I discovered CorelDRAW, with the first version used being version 4.

 

By 1996 feeling comfortable enough to start designing freelance on a part time basis, and after exploring company titles, settled on dizziworx for a design name.

 

Late 2006 I left for Cape Town looking to broaden my horizons, and after brief employment at a Boutique Hotel in Sea Point, a door opened for me into graphic design and printing. I secured a position as a Junior Graphic Designer at Minuteman Press Cape Town, and commenced employment early 2007. The position involved designing extensively for Digital, Litho as well as Large Format printing.

 

By mid 2013 being diagnosed with severe type-2 diabetes, and battling to get the condition under control, I resigned from my position as Senior Designer, took a short break and returned to my home town to continue freelancing. 

 

I briefly contracted on a freelance basis to a local signage company named SignRight, until its closure in September 2015. Post recovery from an eye operation in Cape Town, designing freelance commenced again.

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By this time I dropped the name dizziworx in favour of DESIGNRIGHT with a rebranded, and continued designing freelance on a full time basis. 

 

In October 2015, after a diagnosis of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia which again forced me to take a break. By early 2016, still under intensive treatments, and securing employment at Blitsdruk Knysna as a Junior Graphic Designer, work continued.

 

By mid 2020 at the first peak of the Covid-19 Global Pandemic in South Africa, I was released from my position at my place of employment which then allowed me the opportunity to start designing freelance on a full time basis again.

 

As a full-time freelance designer, I always commit 100% to every project, regardless of its size.