Rob Nicholson
Glapthorn. Cambridgeshire UK
During a five year apprenticeship in the art dept of the Metal Box Co Ltd. A tin printers and manufacturer, I was fortunate to be trained by some superb craftsmen as a Litho General Artist in hand lettering, studio artwork (keyline and paste), illustration and airbrushing, galley camera op and retouching CMYK glass plate and later film sets, etching the dots with pot. ferro-cyanide and hypo/water to kill the etch (always wash hands before lunch!!) :-) Finished apprenticeship 1975 as the Metal Box Co was going bust. Doh!!
• Strata Design, Off Tottenham Ct. Rd. Studio artist.
• Freelance studio camera/artist across swinging London with a couple of great agencies.
• lots of great experience in trade houses: graphics, design, typography, Mac op, PC's Linux...
Current day job: Printer at East-Northamptonshire Council.
By night I become... RN Design, web and graphic designer. Yay!!