Technical Creative
Client: Claire Sutherland
Project: Remembering… The Mango Tree
Role: Desktop Publishing, Book Cover Design
Prepared 194-page book “Remembering… The Mango Tree” for digital publishing.
Work included:
The book is available online at Barnes & Noble
Client: Mark Sutherland
Project: Gonad Man Comic Book
Role: Desktop Publishing, Digital Publishing, Book Cover Design, CreateSpace
Prepared 134-page full-colour book “Complete Adventures of Gonad Man: Volume One” for digital publishing.
Work included:
See the project online at www.gonadman.com/original-series/
Client: Global Style
Project: Online retail site
Role: Web Design, Graphic Design
Global Style needed an easy-to-use website for their label product. CSS and JavaScript was used to dynamically display content, keeping the site to a minimum of pages. A customised PHP shopping cart interfaces with PayPal.
Client: Global Style
Role: Design Assistant
Assisted in production of custom fabric and vinyl labels for local online business. Involved fulfilling orders: heat pressing labels to garments, trimming and packaging orders to a high standard of presentation.
Client: Mark Sutherland (my husband)
Project: Gonad Man Online Website
Role: Web Design, Graphic Design
Designed and coded the Gonad Man Online Comic site.
Website features include:
See the project online at www.gonadman.com
Client: Self – Rosie and The Thorns / Mixmasters Records
Project: Full-length original album
Roles Singer-Songwriter, Musician, Cover art
The Crazy Talk album was recorded in a mud-brick home by Mixmaster’s Mick Wordley (Delightful Rain, The Yearlings, Jeff Lang). I recorded and mixed some additional vocal tracks and audio samples for inclusion in the final mixing done by Mick.
I created all the album artwork to press-ready standards for the album release to CD and iTunes in October 2009.
Martin Jones in Jan 2010 issue of Rhythms mag – Australia’s roots music monthly:
“Rosie Sutherland is not exactly fresh to music (she first popped up in Andrew Kidman and Mark Sutherland’s Val Dusty Experiment in the mid-’90s), but this is her debut album under her own name.
Sutherland is a fan of left of centre American country – stuff like Neil Young and Lucinda Williams – but exudes a strong folk aesthetic in her writing and singing. She also exhibits the invaluable understanding of economy in her singing; delivering just what the song and lyric requires and no more…
2008
Client Self
Project Original music
Roles Singer-Songwriter, Musician, Sound Mixing, Cover art
The Crazy Talk EP was recorded at Mark Well’s Footprints Studio and in my home studio. Mixing was done by Mark Wells and I completed final vocal mixing and mastering.
