Sam Edmonds

"Working with Sam was a blast! During our close collaboration he perfectly understood my needs, while giving me a great insight into the world of design and iconography. Therefore he was able to deliver a design which expressed the message I wanted to put across!" ~Thijs Metsch Suricate CEO-Engjoy Founder.
http://de.linkedin.com/in/thijsmetsch

I gave this portion of my site a lot of thought, having mentally elaborated thoroughly into my past, recounting every relative moment that I could. However, I thought I'd provide a more minimalist version of it as in design, less is often more and a sign of true talent is shown when a design piece has been executed beautifully with the most simplistic of incorporated elements.

Intelligent, aware, open-minded, creative, humble, personable, talented, outgoing, detail- oriented , well-rounded, analytical, reliable. This is a selection of characteristics that would describe myself which has been echoed in the words of those who have worked with me.

“I’ve worked with Sam on the logo for our research lab ‘Datalab’. Though I’m pretty sure the job wasn’t easy he did an amazing job: the logo is beautiful, perfectly balanced between playful and serious, and even fits the corporate identity of the university we belong to. We are very satisfied" ~Thilo Stadelmann Datalab Dozent -Associate Professor
http://ch.linkedin.com/pub/thilo-stadelmann/68/4a/916

Growing up, I spent a lot of my upbringing in the countryside, surrounded by nature and the serenity that encompassed it. I was always fascinated by wildlife and the accompanying flora, always intrigued and fascinated by how everything worked. I would spend hours looking at the various flowers my mother lovingly planted in our large gardens, detailing the intricate stylings and the wonderful colour infused patterns embedded in each petal, for the first time taking heed to what one can learn by studying a subject and learning from it.

Even then I knew that it was all in the details, that you had to look hard into your subject matter to understand it, and then elaborate upon your understandings to represent it in another medium, like drawings and paintings which I did many of. This would then make me realize that t