Our recent interview with Sean McGrath proved hugely successful, and so, we have decided to start a complete new section here at Web Tips Magazine – Interviews. We have some awesome interviews lined up from various freelancers in the coming months so be sure to keep an eye on this section.

Let’s kick of our new interview by focusing on Jonathan Atkinson. Jonathan’s story begins in a small town in Lancashire, England.  He started off selling games out of a gas station and built that up to be one of the top 20 Playstation Centre’s in the country.  When that challenge was conquered, Jonathan decided to see if he could live the ‘All American Dream’ and move to Ohio, with his US born wife.

Coming to the USA in 2000, he was penniless.  While going through immigration, which is a another long story he tells us, he decided he wanted to go back to his roots of Art and Design, since it was after all, the Major he took at Nelson & Colne College.  So he found a little website called Elance and decided to join the masses and try out his luck.  It wasn’t long after his first couple of projects that he started a career on what would go on to be his “calling”.

Jonathan has graduated from logo design, basic HTML websites and 30 second flash files shown at movie cinemas, on to Apple Motion, email templates, and now Word Press themes.  Expanding his business from Theatre web sites, to complete websites, online application design, and GUI design.

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Jonathan was nice enough to sit down and tell us a little more information about himself that we would like to share.  We asked Jonathan to tell us about his profession, his refreshing way-to-keep-it simple attitude earns him a plus here at Web Tips Magazine.

“I like to say to people that I make things look pretty – logos, websites, user interfaces, print materials and I even create animated pre-movie advertisements for movie theaters, plus I design online applications for my day job and look after the servers and a family of websites.”

Jonathan also went on to tell us what inspires him:

“I don’t have any particular people that inspire me as such, I just love clean usable design, whether that is a can of soda or a print magazine all the way to architecture and movies – I tend to gain inspiration from as many places as I can and none traditional inspiration from something not affiliated with web design etc is always a great source.

Inspiration from unusual sources, as I said before blending one media with another in style and user interface is a great obsession of mine and seeing the HDR images, flickr focus and interviews on here is a great source for improving your skill sets.”

Personal goals for Jonathan for 2010 include more Word Press themes.  He’s keen to raise the bar on his Themeforest creations.  Jonathan tells us to watch his Themeforest account for new and upcoming projects he already has in mind.

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Jonathan has promised us a little present that we can share with our readers.  Look for that article TOMORROW as we wait to see what excitement he has in store for all of us.

Take a look at some of Jonathan’s fresh cool and eye-catching pieces:

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