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Andy Ashburner

Owner of Caffeinehit Ltd, a web design and graphic design company in London. We work with startups all the way through the houshold brands. Check out our work at http://caffeinehit.com.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.caffeinehit.com
Industries: Computing, Entertainment, Financial, Food and Drink, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Retail, Sports, Travel
Skills: Business, Copy Writing, Design, English, Entrepreneurship, Graphic design, Languages, Web design
Location: London
Groups: LSE Entrepreneurs, Seedcamp
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Getting press, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Internships, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Supporting my investments
Tags: banksy, cocktails, design, mobile, music
Schools: Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

FEATURED STARTUP

Caffeinehit Ltd

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Caffeinehit is a top-rated web design, web development, graphic design and iPhone development company in Shoreditch, London.

  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Profitable

FULL BIO

Caffeinehit provides web design and graphic design solutions from our offices in Shoreditch, London.

Currently available for web design, graphic design, user interface design and design consultancy projects.

We cater for clients in all shapes and sizes, be it one of the hottest web start-ups in London, New York, LA or Amsterdam through to a well-established brands around the world.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Caffeinehit Ltd
Position: Director
Time period: August 2007 - Present
Description: Design consultation
Web design, graphic design, logo design, corporate ID, style guide design, brand development, GUI design and SEO.
Current clients include: National Geographic, MTV, Ministry of Sound, TrustedPlaces, Nokia and Paradise Poker amongst others.

Employer: MTV
Position: Senior Designer
Time period: August 2006 - September 2007
Description: Designing and maintaining the MTV UK website
Designing and maintaining the MTV Flux website
Working on special promotions, microsites and general GUI issues across the MTV websites

Employer: Apple Corps Ltd
Position: Senior Designer
Time period: April 2003 - August 2006
Description: Designing and creating Beatles merchandise and artwork for sale throughout the world
Responsible for the Apple Corps Ltd corp ID
Designing POS, packaging and marketing material for the Beatles brands
Managing and developing the Beatles global branding and style guide
Helping develop thebeatles.com, e-mailers and other online PR
Working on concepts for new ‘Let It Be… Naked’ Album, The First US Visit and The Concert for Bangladesh

Employer: Yahoo!
Position: Promotions Designer
Time period: April 2002 - April 2003
Description: Responsible for the promotional appearance of Yahoo! UK
Creating and structuring new homepage
Designing Yahoo! format during major sporting events such as Wimbledon
Representing the company when visiting potential sponsors e.g. BT, Vodafone, Nestle (Twix), British Airways, MG Rover, Subaru, HSBC

EDUCATION

University: Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
Time period: 1999 - 2002
Degree: Graphic Design & Advertising, BA

INFORMATION

Sports: Football
Hobbies: Art Collecting, Travel, Food, Drink, Design, Photography

Andy's Startups (4)

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  • Gighit

    New music promotion social network based around London and throughout the UK. Ideal for bands looking for promotion and to track down gigs local to you, also stalk your favourite bands and friends activity.

  • Festivalhit

    Festivalhit is a one-stop shop for festival-goers (initially in the UK). We aim to be the number 1 social networking website for music festivals within 12 months of launch.

  • Caffeinehit Ltd

    Caffeinehit is a top-rated web design, web development, graphic design and iPhone development company in Shoreditch, London.

  • Pappd

    Pappd: Real-Time Celeb-Spotting.

Andy is Following (11)

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  • Globrix

    Globrix is the Uk's biggest property search engine backed by News International, with the Uk's largest searchable index of for sale and rental properties. Globrix adopts a free to list model, with revenues generated from online advertising.

  • YouNoodle

    YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.

  • Songkick

    We love live music.

  • TrustedPlaces

    TrustedPlaces is a social network focused on local reviews. People can share recommendations (or not) on their favourite restaurants, bars, clubs, pubs and much more in their area and find cool places to go using guides built by other people.

Andy's Contacts (33)

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  • Sam Feuer

    Award winning web design, flash, animation, 3d, maya, post production, audio, television, commericals, iphone applications, android development

  • Ben Godfrey

    CS graduate. Programmer and entrepreneur focussed on consumer internet. Startup junky apparently.

  • Shama Rahman

    Director of a social entrepreneurship; Director of a music events and promotions company; PhD in complexity sciences,neuroscience and music; musician (sitar, voice, piano);aspiring to start a productions company for inspiring documentaries, animation