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Commerce

Chris is an excellent freelance designer. He is extremely flexible, reliable, and delivers work to a high standard.Mark Ralphs
Director
WORTH - Digital Health and Education

Culture & Education

From 2000 to 2005 Chris Kennish was employed, though Harvard Consulancy Services, to design, build and maintain the Looking at Buildings website (www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk) as part of an HLF-funded project for the Buildings Books Trust and the Pevsner Architectural Guides. Chris created a bespoke file management system for uploading content and oversaw all the design elements of the site, including the creation of a series of interactive tools and gamesGavin Watson
Secretary to the Trust
The Buildings Books Trust
I have worked with Chris Kennish for over eight years. During this time he has produced illustrations for my books, articles and lectures on architectural history (listed below). Not only has he done this entirely to my satisfaction, in many cases his input has been crucial to the success of the images. I think particularly of the sequence of three maps of the empires of Europe and Asia between 395 and 800AD which he set in a striking global context and which have caused admiring comments where I have used them in lectures, both in this country and in the United States. He has also helped define the best conventions for distinguishing different states of material in plans and elevations of buildings, such as standing masonry, foundations and reconstructed aspects, as well as the difficult business of separating elements at ground level from those above, such as vault patterns. He is a pleasure to work with and is willing to keep at a problem until it is solved. Professor Eric Fernie
Retired Director
Courtauld Institute of Art
University of London.
Chief books and articles
  1. The Architecture of Norman England (Oxford University Press), 2000, pp. 338.
  2. Romanesque Architecture: the First Style of the European Age, for Yale University Press, in press.
  3. The Architecture and Sculpture of the Cathedral in the Norman Period, Peter Meadows and Nigel Ramsey, eds, Ely Cathedral: Millennium History (Boydell, Woodbridge, 2003), 95-111.
  4. L'espace liturgique dans les édifices de l'Angleterre normande, in C. Arrignon, M.-H. Debiès, M. Galderisi, E. Palazzo (éds.), Cinquante années d'études médiévales. À la confluence de nos disciplines. Actes du Colloque à l'occasion du cinquantenaire du CESCM, Poitiers, 1-4 septembre 2003. (Culture et société médiévales - CSM 5).

Music

Chris Kennish's work is unique, simple and beautiful... There is intellegence, edge & precision to his work that make me and my product look really cool & bright. Many thanks.Mike Crook
I am a record producer and music programmer, having worked with the likes of Gwen Stefani, Janet Jackson, Goldfrapp, Craig David and Enya. I approached Chris Kennish to design and facilitate my personal website and I have to say that I've been fantastically happy with his creativity, originality, professionalism, speed and assistance before, during and after the implementation of my website. I cannot recommend him highly enough and will certainly be involving Chris on several up and coming projects that I'm involved in.Lee Groves
Chris is always my first (and only) stop for any design needs. He is excellent at combining an artist's understanding and enthusiasm with a shrewd commercial outlook. The proof of this is in the amount of work I have been offered on the basis of the way he has presented my profileRussell Carr