Web/Graphic Designer // Belfast, Northern Ireland // Akaihane

About Akaihane

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Akaihane is a freelance web/graphic designer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She loves to doodle with both pencils, watercolours and in Photoshop, and is currently working at getting back into her illustration and photography.

Away from the computer she: herds wild cats; reads books heavy enough to cause wrist strain; has a collection of 530+ manga and 300+ anime DVDS; and is attempting to master the Japanese language. It's challenging!

If you are in the market for a new website or any printed promotional work (fliers, business cards, posters), don't hesitate to contact Akaihane for a free quote. You can also view her CV here.




Selected Web Portfolio

Below are a choice selection of some of the web projects Akaihane has worked on over the past few years. Some have been done on her own entertainment, and others as a web/graphic designer, either at various companies or as a freelancer.

Red Sky Photography

Red Sky Photography

Role: Designer; Coding
Website: RedSkyNI.com
Year: 2010
About: When Rick Trainor, a local photographer, had a new corporate identity designed, he needed a new website to go along with it. By using the Magazeen Wordpress theme as a base, I created for Rick and all-new online presence to fit in with this new era of his business.

Insupire-shon - Akaihane's Blog

Insupire-shon - Akaihane's Blog

Role: Designer; Blogger;
Website: Blog.Akaihane.co.uk
Year: 2009
About: This is Akaihane's primary blog. It is dedicated to her two passions: design and Japan. The blog focuses on amazing design inspired by Japanese visual creativity, including web & graphic design, animation, fashion, illustration, product design and much, much more.

This blog is a customisation of the Infinity WordPress theme, developed by Yichi.

Altruism // A Sumeragi Subaru Shrine

Altruism // A Sumeragi Subaru Shrine

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder; Content Writer
Website: Akaihane.co.uk/Altruism
Year: 2005
About: A just-for-fun site Akaihane created around one of her favourite manga characters.

From scanning required material, designing and coding the site, and writing all of the articles, the site is 100% her baby, and was made during her last few months at university, as a way to get her head away from her major project work.

Life Was Beautiful

Life Was Beautiful

Role: Designer; Flash Developer
Website: LifeWasBeautiful.com
Year: 2009
About: A Flash portfolio site created for local photographer, Richard Watson. This site gave Akaihane a great chance to get back into refreshing her Flash skills after a while away from creating full Flash sites.

Donaghy's Shoes

Donaghy's Shoes

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder
Website: Donaghys.co.uk
Year: 2009/2010
About: Donaghy's already had an e-commerce back-end built, but needed a complete re-design, pushing the new photography they had invested in, and front-end re-code of their new online store. In less than two weeks, Akaihane turned the site around into what it is today.

Planet Environmental Design

Planet Environmental Design

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder
Website: PlanetEnvironmentalDesign.com
Year: 2009
About: To promote their services, Planet Environmental Design required a small, easy to maintain site that would still give enough impact to put their company above the rest.

NMNI

National Museums Northern Ireland

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder;
Website: NMNI.com
Year: 2009
About: The new extensive website for the National Museums, Northern Ireland, incorporating mini-sites for each of the four museums and more.

Armagh GAA

Armagh GAA

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder;
Website: Armagh-GAA.com
Year: 2009
About: Armagh GAA required a website from where GAA fans and team members themselves would have an online base, somewhere to find out about everything from news, events and about the players themselves.

Ford - NI Dealers

Ford - NI Dealers

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder
Website: FordDealersNI.co.uk
Year: 2009
About: Ford's key site for sales in Northern Ireland, this site needed to be clean with a innovative way to browse the car listing.

County Sligo Golf Club

County Sligo Golf Club

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder
Website: CountySligoGolfClub.ie
Year: 2008/2009
About: One of the top Irish golf clubs, Country Sligo needed a website that would allow their members to access information regarding the history of the club, details on the courses, and much more.

eg. Information Consulting

eg. Information Consulting

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder; Flash Developer
Website: eg-Consulting.com
Year: 2007
About: The eg. Information Consulting website was developed as a way to convey to prospective clients the services that the company provided, as well as illustrate, through case studies, the successes the company has had over its extensive history.

Alan Lewis Displays - Fitout

Alan Lewis Displays - Fitout

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder; JavaScript Coder
Website: AlanLewisDisplays.co.uk
Year: 2007
About: Alan Lewis Displays required a portfolio based site that would allow prospective clients to see their products in an exciting way, as well as show the sites they have already fitted out.

Flipleaf

Flipleaf

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder
Website: FlipLeaf.com
Year: 2007
About: Flipleaf provides clients with a quality and low cost means of displaying magazines, brochures, catalogues etc online in digital format.

Belfast City Airport

Belfast City Airport

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder
Website: BCA.aero
Year: 2008
About: BCA required a site where visitors could not only check on the times of departures and arrivals, but also find all of the information they required to make their journeys go as smoothly as possible.

Abacus - Professional Recruitment

Abacus - Professional Recruitment

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder; Flash Developer
Website: Abacus.jobs
Year: 2008
About: Abacus required an interactive site that would provide an innovative way - a live search system - by which employers and job seekers could streamlessly search for prospective employees and jobs.

CONGU - Council of National Golf Unions

Congu - The Council of National Golf Unions

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder
Website: Congu.com
Year: 2007
About: CONGU required a website to explain both their work and about the rules surrounding the handicap system in golfing.

Mount Ober Golf Club

Mount Ober Golf Club

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder; Flash Developer
Website: MountOber.com
Year: 2007
About: Mount Ober Golf Club required a website to promote the facilities at their golf course, as well as information as to how to become a member.

Golfing Union of Ireland

Golfing Union of Ireland

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder; Flash Developer
Website: GUI.ie
Year: 2007/2008
About: GUI required an in-depth site that not only promoted their organisation, but would also enable, using Google Maps, visitors to find clubs throughout Ireland, as well as hotel accommodation, news and more.

Irish Ladies Golf Union

Irish Ladies Golf Union

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder
Website: ILGU.ie
Year: 2008
About: As a companion to the GUI website, the ILGU required a site with the same scope, but one that was designed to fit a different primary audience.

Harland & Wolff

Harland & Wolff

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder; Flash Developer
Website: Harland-Wolff.com
Year: 2007
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Provincia Professional Recruitment

Provincia Professional Recruitment

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder; JavaScript Developer
Website: Provincia.co.uk
Year: 2008/2009
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North Down Borough Council

North Down Borough Council

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder
Website: NorthDown.gov.uk
Year: 2007
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Henderson Group

Henderson Group

Role: Designer; Flash Developer
Website: Henderson-Group.com/
Year: 2007
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H. & J. Martin

H. & J. Martin

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder
Website: HJMartin.co.uk
Year: 2007/2008
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Leckey

Leckey

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder
Website: Leckey.com
Year: 2007
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FM Planning

FM Planning

Role: Designer; CSS/XHTML Coder
Website: FMPlanning.co.uk
Year: 2007
About: FM Planning required a simple one-page website as a way to educate people as to the services they offered and to give prospect clients a way to easily discover their contact information.