Work

Freelance, professional, and student work.

Client Websites

2017-present

Various clients

Web

Since 2017, I have worked as a web designer, creating websites for a variety of clients. All sites I have produced have been designed with responsive design and modern UI conventions in mind. I also produced illustrations and animations for select sites.
Selection of sites:
Brisbane Commercial Qld
Citywide Painting
Designer Night
FSOQ Inc.
G Code Precision Engineering
Morris Brothers Pianos
Pallet Racking Maintenance
Queensland Plumbing
Sri Lanka Sports Association of Qld
SEO Mafia

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Education and Training Infographics

2014-2018

Work Skills

Digital

For four years, I wrote, illustrated, and designed over 300 infographics on hospitality, aged care, automotive, and media for Work Skills, a registered training organisation.

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Souvenir Publications

2007-present

Various clients

Print

For over ten years, I have been contributing the the layout and design of souvenir publications distributed at events for charities and organisations. Taking the form of a small-format magazine, the souvenirs contain writing and pictures from a variety of people associated with the event, and provide background information on performers and notable attendees.

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Icons of Asia Tours

2015

Cruise and Travel Centre Springwood

Website, print, branding

A promotional site advertising tour packages to Sri Lanka, India, Vietnam and Cambodia, and Japan. This photo-driven design included an easy-to-follow outline of itineraries, as well as clearly-presented information on destinations. The job also included work on branding, including the design of a logo and colour scheme. Finally, a trifold print brochure promoting the site was assembled for distribution at travel seminars and events.

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Peterites Reunited

2013

Peterites Reunited

Website, branding

Promotional website and branding produced for the Peterites 2014 reunion in Melbourne, Australia. The Wordpress-based website included facilties for news updates, photo galleries, and engagement with the alumni community. Colours and branding were developed using the school colours and emblem as a base.

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Student Work

2011-2013

Print, Concept

A selection of design and writing work from my Creative & Professional Writing/Interactive and Visual Design degree.

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Kung Fu Teacher

2010

Video Game, Website

A video game I assisted in the development of in 2010. I contributed writing, design, and concept work, and built the promotional website.

Visit the website to download and play today.

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Projects

Personal projects produced in my spare time.

Fancy buttons

When building this website, I wanted to give certain links and buttons a little flair. While there are more effects-laden button solutions out there, they usually rely on extra Javascript. This solution is all CSS, using only pseudo elements attached to the links or buttons.

(Note that this will not work on <input type="submit"> buttons in forms as these do not accept internal content or pseudo elements. An alternative is to use <button type="submit">Submit</button>.)


...and this is how you do it:

SCSS
button{
    display: inline-block;
    border-radius: 2px;
    border: 1px solid red;
    color: red;
    margin: 0 10px;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    letter-spacing: 2px;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
    overflow: hidden;
    transition: all 0.5s;
    text-decoration: none !important;
    padding: 10px 20px;
    margin-left: 0;
    background: transparent;
    &:focus{
        outline: none;
        box-shadow: inset 0 3px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
    }
    &:before{
        content: "";
        display: block;
        position: absolute;
        width: 100%;
        height: 0;
        bottom: -50%;
        left: 0;
        background-color: red;
        transition: all 0.5s;
        z-index: -1;
        border-radius: 50%;
    }
    &:hover{
        color: #fff;
        cursor: pointer;
        &:before{
            height: 100%;
            border-radius: 0;
            bottom: 0;
        }
    }
}
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Illustrations

A collection of various illustrations I have done for family, friends, and personal projects.

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5x5 typeface and icon experiment

An in-progress attempt at developing a fixed-width typeface and icon system, based on a five-by-five grid.

As a low-resolution bitmap character set, the glyphs should be legible at small sizes. Hard pixel edges should not detract from their legibility at larger sizes. When complete, the set will inform further ventures into typeface creation and icon design.

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About me

Hi. I'm Robert Heyn.

I'm a designer, writer, editor, animator, and whatever else is needed at a given time. In short, I wear many hats; sometimes several in the space of a day.

I have worked both freelance and corporate since 2007 and I'm always up for something new.

Most of all, I love creating things. Like this website.

Interested? Contact me and we can talk more about it.

Contact me


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