[ About ] — Phil Gibson
Creative Artworker · Production Artist
A remote desk that behaves like it's in the building.
No noise, no hand-holding, no licence excuses — just clean, press-ready and screen-ready artwork that lands exactly when you said it would.
[ 01 ] The short version
I'm Phil — a creative artworker and production artist who works remotely as your studio's extra desk.
For years I’ve sat at the production end of design & marketing agencies, turning approved concepts into files that survive contact with a printer, a CMS and a last-minute amend. I know the difference between a layout that looks finished and one that is finished.
I work the way good in-house artworkers do — careful with the brand, fast with the revisions, quiet about it all. The only thing that changes is I’m remote, and I bring my own fully-equipped kit. Mostly UK studios, happily anywhere the brief lives.
8+ years production
Print & digital
White-label
NDA-friendly
[ 02 ] Fully equipped
No borrowed seats. No excuses.
Everything needed to finish the job — already on the desk.
Software
Full Adobe Creative Cloud — InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro — fully licensed.
Pre-press
Professional preflight & print-checking, PDF/X export, ink & overprint inspection, packaging-aware setup.
Display
Hardware-calibrated screen for trustworthy colour decisions on print and digital alike.
Delivery
Secure file transfer, version control and your naming conventions — files arrive ready to use, not ready to fix.
Workflow
Comfortable in your toolchain — shared drives, asset managers, ticketing and review tools. I adapt to you.
Coverage
Remote across the UK and worldwide, working to your time zone and your studio’s hours when it counts.
[ 03 ] How it works
Brief in → finished files out
Four steps, zero drama.
01 / Brief
You send the brief and the source
Concepts, working files, specs, guidelines — however messy. I confirm the scope, the spec and the deadline in plain English before a pixel moves.
02 / Build
I build the artwork to spec
Clean, structured files that match your brand and the production requirements exactly — print or digital, single format or a full matrix of sizes.
03 / Check
Preflight, proof & amend
Everything is preflighted and proofed before you see it. Amends come back fast — I plan for the round you haven’t asked for yet.
04 / Deliver
Press-ready files, your way
Final files packaged, named and delivered exactly how your team and your printer need them. Ready to use, not ready to fix.
[ 04 ] Why studios keep me on speed-dial
Less, but better — and always finished.
Detail-obsessed
The 0.5mm bleed, the rogue spot colour, the inconsistent kerning across 40 sizes — that’s the stuff I catch so your designers don’t have to.
Reliable under pressure
A deadline is a promise. I scope honestly, flag risks early and deliver when I said — even when the brief lands late on a Friday.
Easy to work with
No ego, no drama, no onboarding marathon. I read the brand, match the tone and become the quietest, most useful name in your project channel.
[ 05 ] Let's talk