Who is Patrick Laslett?
Patrick
Laslett is the webmaster for laslett.info,
webdesigner.co.uk, Norfolk
Honey and several other web sites. Trained as a graphic designer in
the sixties (Canterbury College of Art 1964
and Medway Colleges
of Art) Patrick was first prize winner of the very first Letraset Award (1968)
with photographer David Evans whilst at Rochester and an RSA Bursary winner
again with David Evans in the same year.
In
his last year at college
Patrick entered into a competition run by J Walter Thompson in London
for their art director training scheme. Out of 350 entrants he was one of six
selected
and joined JWT (at that time the world's largest Advertising Agency) in August
1969.
Patrick
worked in London for several years in both agencies and
design groups and as a freelance graphic designer during the seventies.
He left London in 1978 to move to Norwich Norfolk and worked
in Norwich as a graphic designer
throughout
the eighties.
In
1993 Patrick
Laslett
and Roz
Painter
bought
the design group they were working for from BPC and formed Laslett & Painter.
Laslett and Painter Ltd started designing web sites in the summer of 1995 and
introduced many clients to the web between August 1995 and July 2000 when the
company was sold to Norwich Advertising Agency Fox Murphy.
In 2001 Patrick went back to working as a freelance Graphic designer and now works from home. He also offers his services as a marketing and web consultant. He is a partner in www.newstar-network.co.uk and offers a wide range of hosting options for small to medium sized businesses.
Patrick also works with specialist PHP, MySQL web developers on data driven, interactive, projects for corporate clients. With them he has created a variety of e-commerce data driven sites coded from scratch (see: laslett.info/websites) and believes that web sites should be easy to use, both by owner and visitor, and carefully optimized so that they can be found in the search engines "we are taking great care to conform to current WC3 standards and using CSS to separate style from content to create slimed down pages and sites that are easy to use and search engine friendly".