About Us

Designers Ink was formed in 2002 as a partnership between Andy Pritchett and Ian Claxton. Between us we have over twenty five years experience of design and industry, including work on feature films, animation, educational software, console games and print.

The Agency has steadily expanded over the years and has grown to be a network of design professionals, capable of offering you, our client, a full design service. It also includes ‘Ugly Studios’, a section created specifically to deliver digital and non-digital artwork for print, multimedia, computer games, television and film.

Through our extensive network of professionals, Designers Ink are able to realise solutions in a wide variety of environments and languages.

Our designers’ expertise spans:

  • PhotoShop,
  • Illustrator,
  • Dreamweaver,
  • Flash,
  • Fireworks,
  • Premier,
  • After-effects,
  • Quark,
  • Freehand,
  • Swift 3D,
  • Director.
  • Sound Forge.

And our programmers can employ:

  • HTML,
  • XHTML,
  • XML,
  • CSS,
  • PHP,
  • ZPT,
  • Pearl,
  • Python,
  • JSP,
  • ColdFusion,
  • ASP,
  • ActionScript,
  • Lingo,
  • JavaScript.

We can deliver finished solutions that can utilise:

  • Linux,
  • Apache,
  • Zope,
  • Solaris,
  • MySQL,
  • Microsoft IIS.