Timeline of things I’ve done (Phil Gyford’s website)

	Where	Work	Education		Play			Photos	Writing
2022	Abbey Dore, Herefordshire	Prototyping, designing, building websites Including: Grub Street Project for the University of Saskatchewan beacon.black for ArtAngel Developing Job Garden with Matt Webb Making the website for Good ID with Unfold Stories Creating archivable versions of sites for MoMA Front-end development for WorldSkills		Jazz piano with PianoGroove.com	ooh.directory		The Diary of Samuel Pepys		Oct Nov Dec
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2021			German using Duolingo, Memrise, Lingvist, Deutsche Welle, and Busuu.	Jazz piano with PianoGroove.com					Oct Nov Dec
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2020									Oct Nov Dec
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2019	Barbican, London			Meisner technique acting classes at The Salon Collective					Oct Nov Dec
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2018									Oct Nov Dec
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					Django Hines				Jan Feb Mar
2017									Oct Nov Dec
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		Developer at IF			Django Spectator	Django Ditto		Isle of Skye	Apr May
		Prototyping, designing, building websites Including: MoMA Exhibition Spelunker with Good, Form & Spectacle (GF&S). A social media aggregation tool with Storythings for WaterAid UTOPIA 2016 with Caper for Somerset House Waddesdon Bequest with GF&S for the British Museum St Paul’s School with Clearleft Also, teaching web development to Goldsmiths design students							Feb Mar
2016									Oct Nov Dec
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					Ansible playbook				Jan Feb Mar
2015									Oct Nov Dec
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		Front End Development at Citizens Advice As part of the “Alpha team”, developing prototype digital services.							Jan Feb Mar
2014
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					Mappiness chart			Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris	Apr May Jun
		Creative Technologist at BERG Designing and making publications and features for Little Printer. Creating tools for developers.							Jan Feb Mar
2013					Twelescreen				Nov
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								Scotland
		Planning, designing and building websites Developing a complex prototype mobile web app for the BBC with BERG. Building the Django back-end for MATTER. Part of Really Interesting Group where we made HistoryTag. Developing Headliner for the Guardian with BERG. Designing new interfaces for products from Google, Nokia and Daylife. Development of Dreams Of Your Life with Hide&Seek. Wireframing and all front-end development on SuperMe with Somethin’ Else. Planning, wireframing and specification writing on Popular Science+ with BERG. PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS, JavaScript on Misfits with Six to Start for E4. HTML/CSS templates for London Review of Books. PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS on Ununited Eurasia with Six to Start for Muse. Planning, wireframing and HTML/CSS for Shownar with BERG for the BBC. Design and build of Show Us a Better Way and Building Democracy for the Cabinet Office and Ministry of Justice respectively. Planning the future homepage of BBC.co.uk. HTML/CSS for BBC Programmes. Design and prototyping for Blyk. HTML/CSS for Dopplr. “The Time When” for the BBC. Design, HTML/CSS and Movable Type for BBC Innovation Labs. HTML/CSS for Ning.com. PHP, MySQL, HTML and CSS for JamieOliver.com. Several internal-only prototypes sites for the BBC. Many other projects for Nature, Which?, Poke, The Guardian, FT.com, Campbell-Lange Workshop, Wilson Fletcher, Digit, Syzygy, Ideas Bazaar and more.			Our Incredible Journey				Jan Feb Mar
2012			Absolute Beginners’ Dance evening classes at City Academy						Oct Dec
								London Olympics	Jul Aug Sep
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2011			Sewing Skills evening classes at LCF					California	Oct Nov Dec
					Crazy Walls				Jul Aug Sep
								Walton	Apr May Jun
			Anatomical Life Drawing evening classes at CSM						Jan Feb Mar
2010									Oct Nov Dec
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					Today’s Guardian			Morocco	Apr May Jun
								SXSW and New York	Jan Feb Mar
2009			Using mathematics at the Open University						Oct Nov Dec
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								Walton and Copenhagen	Apr May Jun
					Pretend Office & Septivium			St Ives and ETech & SXSW	Jan Feb Mar
2008									Oct Nov Dec
			Full-time course in Creating Theatre at the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) Devised physical theatre including: masks; Commedia dell’Arte; the grotesque; dramatic storytelling; epic drama; acrobatics; the chorus; clowns; comedy and farce; Butoh dance; and more. Also, part-time one-year course in stage combat at City Lit including rapier and dagger, and unarmed.					Paris	Jul Aug Sep
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2007									Oct Nov Dec
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2006							Oct Nov Dec
			Acting classes At the City Lit (one year Foundation course and other classes) and The Method Studio.				Jul Aug Sep
					WhitStillman.org		Apr May Jun
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2005							Falkland Islands	Oct Nov
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				Japanese language evening classes Why not? But I eventually gave up as I couldn’t devote enough time to classes.			Avignon	Apr May Jun
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2004							Hackney	Oct Nov Dec
	Hackney, London						St Pancras	Jul Aug Sep
					TheyWorkForYou.com		Serbia and beach huts	Apr May Jun
							California	Jan Feb Mar
2003					Portrait paintings			Oct Nov Dec
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		Creative Technologist at UpMyStreet.com, London Programming, design, site architecture, usability and stuff for the UpMyStreet website and public- and private-sector clients such as SomersetOnLine.					Paris	Apr May Jun
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2002								Oct Nov Dec
								Burning Man 2002	Jul Sep
					Haddock Blogs
	Witham, Essex							Walton	Jan Mar
2001					SimonMortimer.com				Nov
								Burning Man 2001	Aug Sep
					Haddock Review
		Freelance web work							Feb
2000	Houston, Texas		MS in Studies of the Future at University of Houston-Clear Lake It seemed like a good idea when I was sick of London and websites I didn’t care about. It was certainly an experience. I learned a lot and you can see some of the papers I wrote.
								Enron Field, Clear Lake, Houston	Jul Aug
								Enron Field, Clear Lake, Houston	Apr May Jun
					Byliner.com			SXSW	Mar
1999								Amsterdam
	Clapham, London	Deputy Editor of Capital Radio’s websites Too, too long. The shallow fun of meeting stars didn’t make up for having to listen to Capital FM all day.


1998					Life drawings



1997		Webmaster at Syzygy It was OK. But everyone else ran away about the same time I did. I cobbled stuff together for sites such as Cartoon Network UK, Excite UK, Pepsi UK, the V&A, Whiskas, Wilkinson Sword and WPP.						SW USA
								Burning Man 1997
					Haddock Directory
			User Interface Design evening classes at London Guildhall University
1996		Alpha Geek at Wired UK I blagged a job as sysadmin and they were crazy days when any job title seemed possible. I couldn’t believe I had a job at Wired, and it was all thanks to v1.0 going pear shaped. It was like this only more English and I’ve yet to enjoy a job as much as the first few months there. But eventually v2.0 also disappeared. The new economy is so fickle.



1995
	Bristol	Page Layout Artist, Bristol Evening Post Part-time, scalpel, hot wax, black tape.
			French and German evening courses at various times while in Bristol.
		Modelmaker at Aardman Animations Freelance, and more off than on, but it was fun. Made models for TV ads for Chevron, Lurpak, Weetos, and a couple of days on A Close Shave.
1994

		Freelance Illustrator I made £100 from one illustration in GQ.

1993

			BA Graphics & Illustration at UWE Had a great time, and loved Bristol which was why I stayed. Made lots of friends; made many stupidly arty (as opposed to good) things; wimped out and avoided too many parties; learnt a lot; did some paintings rather than spend my time on those nasty computers; went on an amazing mystery field trip to Berlin, Innsbruck, Venice and Bognor Regis; learnt about old Dutch paintings; discovered how much I enjoy movies; made many, many things out of mounting board; discovered how much I enjoy going to gigs; got drunk; cycled up and down hills.		Paintings
					Paintings
1992		Work experience at a couple of theatres sometime during college.


		Odd bits of nasty industrial temping during these years.
1991		Odd bits of nasty industrial temping during these years.

								Crittall factory

1990
	Witham, Essex							La Defense
			Foundation Course at Braintree College I learned how to create things other than the small black and white pen drawings of which I had previously been so proud.

1989

			Witham Sixth Form Centre
		For a while around these years, I worked on Saturdays, and some holidays, at Witham Library.
1988



1987
		For some time round about here, I delivered the Yellow Advertiser after school on Fridays.	The Rickstones School


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1982
			Templars Junior School


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			Chipping Hill Infants School


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