University degree

I have a Bachelor of Communications (Media/Multimedia Production) with Honours in Creative Communication from the University of Canberra.

I worked for three years as a designer at Canberra studio Icelab and lectured in Media Arts at the University of Canberra.

I now live in Sydney and work at Digital Eskimo.


Portfolio

ICV website design

Indigenous Community Volunteers

ICV received the the total overhaul – a brand new site, a new look and a custom-built Symphony CMS.

The client was so happy they came back and asked me to develop their staff intranet.

ICV do great work and it’s worth checking out some of their interesting volunteer opportunities.

Design, development and project management at Icelab

Billy Hughes website design

Billy Hughes at War

The Billy Hughes at War website was built for a traveling exhibition organised by the Museum of Australian Democracy.

The site was highly commended in the Macfarlane Prize for excellence in web design and highly commended at the 2009 MAPDA Awards.

Design and development with Max Wheeler at Icelab

Denise Tart website design

Denise Tart website

Denise wanted to bring her celebrancy business online. We worked together efficiently, with a modest budget to produce a clean and elegant online identity.

Denise now receives ten times as many enquiries, performs more ceremonies and her entire business model has been transformed.

The site includes a lightweight CMS which allows Denise to edit her content herself.

Design and development

SISP logo design

I designed a logo and other associated branding materials for The Australian Defence Force run Systems Integration Support Project.

Design at Icelab

SISP website concept

SISP website concept

I also developed a wide range of supporting branding materials including a website concept, print assets and templates, multimedia presentations and large format banners.

Design at Icelab

ACCCF logo design

ACCCF logo

In 2009 the ANU Climate Change Institute brought China’s top climate change academics, businessmen and academics together with Australia’s own experts. I delivered a logo, print materials, programs, brochures and multimedia templates.

Design at Icelab

KevinPM website concept

KevinPM website concept

A concept pitched at the Australian Labor Party – improving design and functionality of the Prime Minister’s personal website without disrupting current branding.

Design at Icelab

Group Network logo design

Group Network logo

A startup providing online communication services to the health sector needed a new logo and complete frontend redesign.

Design at Icelab

Taxcheck design

Taxcheck

A friend came to me with a very simple idea – input your earnings, find out where each tax dollar goes.

The site got thousands of hits last tax-time and featured on many political blogs and The Australian website.

Check it out, it’s fun and interesting.

Design and development

CDE logo design

Craft & Design Enquiry

Craft Australia were launching a new academic journal and needed a new identity to go with it.

Design at Icelab

Cricket Journeys screenshot

Cricketing Journeys

After developing a super-rich touchscreen interactive within the National Museum of Australia we were asked to downsample, re-encode and repurpose it for the web.

Design and development with Max Wheeler at Icelab

Audio on Demend screenshot

Audio on Demand

The National Museum of Australia asked us to help them re-build their Audio on Demand website, an evolving collection of lectures, forums and symposiums held at the NMA.

A custom built back-end has dramatically improved the client’s workflow by organising their RSS and podcasting needs, their MP3 content (including ID3 data) and text transcripts. The new front-end experience includes a inline mp3 player, and much improved navigation and exploratory paths.

Design and development with Max Wheeler at Icelab

Preferred technical skills and tools


Contact me

P +61 4 04430719
E nathanmcginness@gmail.com


Testimonials

“We were sad to see him go: he's technically capable, has good design sense, and he's willing to take on challenges. He's also a great guy to work with: dedicated, deadline-aware, and good with clients. He'd be an asset to your team.” – Michael Honey, Managing Director, Icelab
“A note to thank you so much for the wonderful website you have created for me. You worked closely with me to ensure that the look and feel of my site reflected me and my business so well. As a result of how attractive the site is and its ease of use, my business enquiries have increased dramatically. I can't tell you how many comments I get not only on the look of my website but on its functionality.” – Denise Tart