David James

David James gained his  BA (Hons) Fine Art at the University of Reading and MA Fine & Media Arts at the University of Gloucestershire. He lectures in video, animation, image creation, graphic design, motion graphics, illustration, and contextual and theoretical studies, and is currently preparing to submit for his PhD by Publication.

David began higher education teaching after 29 years in the broadcast television industry, where he worked as an art director, motion graphics designer and illustrator. His screen credit has appeared not only on national programmes but also on many international productions and television feature films. Screen credits include: TV Eye – the then ITV equivalent of Panorama; the world-wide distributed wildlife series, The Sexual Imperative, which was nominated for a series Oscar; the children’s series, Rolf’s Cartoon Club, and the television feature film Codename Kyril, for which he was awarded a D&AD.

His last three industry posts were: Supervising Designer, News and Current Affairs for Thames Television (now ITV London); Deputy Head of Design at HTV Wales; and Head of the Design Group for ITV West. David was one of the first designers in the UK to use a digital graphics system – the Quantel Paintbox – and, with a colleague, produced the first sequence ever to be broadcast in the UK created entirely on a desktop computer. His screen work has been featured in many books and journals. He has also designed many publications and some exhibitions.

David was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers in 1987 and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2006. Before joining the Digital Arts team at Worcester, he was Principal Lecturer and Divisional Leader for Digital Media at the University of Wolverhampton. He is now Subject Leader, Digital Arts, and Course Leader for both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Creative Digital Media here at Worcester.