The website is now online and I am very happy with the overall design and concept. You can check it out by clicking here or see my websites section. The website is built using jQuery and is entirely CSS… although it looks like flash. The intro is flash which was outsourced.

I am now available for hire so if you have any upcoming projects please contact me.

As much as I don’t like the concept (only because it takes away business and also because I didn’t think of it!) I have entered a fair few designs and found it quite addictive.

As well as honing my design skills I have found that the competition really helps push the boundaries and to think outside the square when it comes to design. I have won a few contests and lost many more… sometimes you look at the winning designs and wonder why the client has chosen such an ordinary design, but what’s ordinary to me is sometimes brilliant to others. I have to concede, design is a subjective thing.

You can check out my 99 Designs portfolio here:
http://99designs.com/people/artmart/folio

You can also check out a design contest I held for ‘Design me the worst logo in the world’.
These are some of the worst designs you will ever see… they will burn your eyeballs!
http://99designs.com/contests/14098

Welcome to the online porfolio of Martin Widholm, freelance graphic designer from Sydney, Australia. Showcased is only a small sample of recent work chosen from over 20 years in the industry… Yes even before the computer age, in the old traditional days of drafting tables, letraset, gumbo, squeakers, rotering pens, bromides, typesetting, couriers and two week deadlines… But you know what? I don’t miss those days one bit!! I now well and trully live in the digital age.

I hope you enjoy exploring the various pages on my website. Click on the first image in each section so you don’t have to scroll down to view each image… and if you want to waste a couple of seconds click on the words in the header above to get an overview of what I do.

Cheers,
Marty.