My work was doing tool drawings and laying out fliers and printed newsletters. After about a year I asked for a pay rise as my starting pay was very low. After discussions with my manager it appeared that they had no intention to promote me while they could continually replace cheap graphic design juniors with new qualifying students from the local college.

So, feeling a little disillusioned decided to resign and after two weeks of freelance graphic design, I decided to apply for a job in a local supermarket (Sainsbury's in Winchester) that was looking for a customer service assistant. This job paid me considerably more than my graphic design position and was where I met my wife Shoko.

In 1987 I applied for a Visa to emigrate with her to Australia and left England 9 months later.

While waiting for my Visa, I was head hunted by Geoff Chown, a quite brilliant entrepreneur, who needed a display visualiser and graphic artist for his exhibition design company called Exhibition Displays and Graphics. His work was very unusual and highly interesting and I was disappointed to leave his company once my Visa arrived.

I arrived in Australia in June 1987 and immediately found a job with a top level graphic design and artwork studio in St Leonards in Sydney, called Artworks with Colin Hamilton, an experienced Graphic Designer and Studio Manager and Les Herbert an amazing Sales person and also Graphic Artist.. In this job I mainly worked to help pharmaceutical clients such as Johnson and Johnson, Upjohn and Roche working on packaging design and flyers. After 4 years I was promoted to senior designer.

In 1995 I started my own Graphic Design Studio where my start was provided for me by a very generous and good friend Suroosh Najmi. Najmi Computers was made up of 6 shops in different locations in Sydney where I provided adverts and looked after their in-house displays, posters flyers and signage. I have always been very grateful to Suroosh who took a huge chance with me. Later he moved to Pakistan to become a member of the Bahai National Assembly an extremely prestigious position.

After a few months I became more widely known in Sydney focusing on Logo Design and Branding Graphics and worked with a variety of different clients including Electrical, Plumbers, Builders, Pharmaceutical Companies, Investment People and IT Companies.