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Who We Are

  • Rosalyn Ellis – geospatial, web development, digital publishing

    Rosalyn is the director of geospatial and web projects at Thameside Media. Experience gained from three decades in the media production industry has given her a deep understanding of how to structure information and reach different audiences. It also means that planning and delivering projects to budget and on time are second nature to her. To Rosalyn, digital platforms are where publishing and marketing meet, and she loves the daily challenges of big data. She directs our Maproom project.

    Favourite books: A Pale View of Hills (Kazuo Ishiguro), Comet in Moominland (Tove Jansson)
    Favourite films: Badlands, The English Patient
    Favourite websites: Classic.co.uk (love looking at cottages in the West Country) and Ancestry.co.uk – 48 lost ancestors found in one evening
  • Michael Ellis – photography, editorial

    Since his days at Glasgow School of Art in the early 1990s, Michael has worked with editorial and photography. His photographic specialisms are architectural and product photography, and he is skilled in image post-production. See his portfolio at Thameside Photography.

     

    Favourite books: Slowness (Milan Kundera), Albert Angelo (B.S. Johnson) 
    Favourite films: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Performance, Blow-Up 
    Favourite websites: StumbleUpon.com, YouWorkForThem.com and the blogspot Sit Down Man, You're a Bloody Tragedy
  • Tom Blaker – web development, graphic design

    Tom is a talented web developer and graphic designer. After several years of splashing paint around at art school, Tom picked up a computer and began a happy career nudging pixels around and tweaking code. He has since worked with a wonderfully diverse portfolio of clients, from town councils to Arctic adventurers. See his website at Black Pen Press.

    Favourite books: Voltaire Almighty (Roger Pearson), The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)
    Favourite films: Top Hat, Some Like it Hot, Lost in Translation
    Favourite websites: AcademicEarth.org , SmashingMagazine.com
  • Jane Simmonds – editorial

    With over two decades of experience in editing, Jane has worked on many projects from large encyclopedias to travel guides to business publications to websites, always with an emphasis on conveying the information in a concise and elegant way to the target readers. Her core skills are editing and writing copy, developing new ideas and ensuring the accuracy of the finished text.

    Favourite books: Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf), Waterlog (Roger Deakin), Ex Libris (Anne Fadiman)
    Favourite films: Man on Wire, Belleville Rendezvous, Another Country
    Favourite websites: DoveGreyReader.co.uk and the Cabinet of Curiosities blogspot

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