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joe best

joe best

Canterbury, GB

 

About 

I am currently completing my MArch course at the Canterbury School of Architecture at UCA. I have recently completed my fourth year which involved my design research proposal was for a Kickstarter Skyscraper based in Bangalore. During the course developing the scheme I researched Education and Living spaces within both broad and location specific contexts the influences.

I graduated in 2010 with a 2.1 in BA (Hons) Architecture pt.1 from the UCA Canterbury School of Architecture which I followed by working as a Carpenters Assistant then moving onto working as a Sales and Marketing Assistant. This position gave me the opportunity to aid the design and construction of a Male Barber shop in Southampton, which completed construction in August 2011.

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Employment 

U International Ltd, Odiham, GB, Sales and Marketing Executive

I was in charge of all the Graphic design and online marketing for the male grooming company men-u. This entitled me to be in charge of managing their main website along with communication and imagery with all other online distributors worldwide.

I also produced a series of imagery of all products using photography and Photoshop to give the brand a modern touch along with aiding in product design which led me to help deign their uber brush which came out last winter.

Due to the growth and detail of the brand they were interested in designing and promoting their own barber shop in which I produced the sections and elevations, along with visiting the site and meeting the contractors. The shop opened in the Autumn of 2011 in Southampton.

Nov 2010 - Oct 2011
 

Best Carpentry, Basingstoke, Assistant

As a Carpenters Assistant I worked on a variety of sites and projects, dealing directly with clients and professionals. I mainly worked on roof construction but I did venture into floors, structural frames and windows.

I worked both on and off site, for a period I worked in a workshop building wall frames to be taken on site. This gave me a large knowledge into not only the detail interpretation from paper to site but also the tools and process to enable the completion.

Jun 2005 - Oct 2010
 

Education 

University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, Canterbury, GB, MArch, MArch Architecture

Sep 2012 - current
 

University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, Canterbury, Bachelors, BA (Hons) Architecture Part 1

Sep 2007 - Jun 2010
 

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