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Professional Information

Stephen Fairbanks is a Web Designer / Front End Developer perched precariously on the Salford / Manchester border and has been designing and building websites since 2000.

He currently works for Cuckoo Design, a rather wonderful design and digital agency based on Chapel Street, Salford.

Vital Info:

Name: Stephen Fairbanks
D.o.B: 23/9/1983
Location: Salford
Education: BA Hons in Multimedia Journalism

Mad Skills:
  • Clean, elegant, functional designs
  • Squeaky clean XHTML
  • Super slick CSS
  • Flashy Flash Animation / coding
  • Juicy jQuery
  • Wonderful WordPress integrations
A Professional Photo.
Rather good at:
  • Design
  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • Flash
  • jQuery
  • WordPress

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Personal Information

Hold tight, friends. Stephen is about to unleash a variety of long and arduous lists concerning his particular taste in popular culture...

Favoured Sounds:

Radiohead, The Smiths, Camera Obscura, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Cocteau Twins, Sigur Ros, Nick Drake, Of Montreal, Idaho, Magazine, Bjork, Kate Bush, R.E.M., Shearwater, Múm, Joy Division, The Beatles, Ryan Adams, Wire, György Ligeti, Blonde Redhead, Little Dragon, Beach House, Fever Ray, Tame Impala, The National, Queens Of The Stone Age, Deerhoof, Electric Eel Shock, Bon Iver, Stars, M83, Why?, Boards of Canada, Panda Bear, Mew, Simon and Garfunkel, Joanna Newsom, Rufus Wainwright, Wild Beasts, St. Vincent, Manic Street Preachers, Antony & The Johnsons, The Pixies, Iron & Wine, Sun Kil Moon, TV on the Radio, Hot Chip, Black Heart Procession, Interpol, DJ Shadow, PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen, Jóhann Jóhannsson, The Knife, Low, Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene, School of Seven Bells, Supergrass, Unkle, TPOBPAH, Mates of State, Massive Attack, Ron Sexsmith, Jeff Buckley, Beck, Hope of the States, Smashing Pumpkins, Roy Orbison, Blue Roses, Beirut, My Bloody Valentine, Elbow, Clinic, Arcade Fire, Sleepy Jackson, The Bluetones, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Richard Hawley, Xiu Xiu, The Shins, The Walkmen, Scott Walker...

Favoured Flicks:

Mulholland Drive, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now, Magnolia, Lord Of The Rings, A Scanner Darkly, Serenity, Casshern, The Conversation, Harold and Maude, 300, North By Northwest, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Lost In Translation, No Country For Old Men, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Amelie, The Fountain, Two Days in Paris, One From The Heart, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, There Will Be Blood, Control, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Thin Red Line, The Science of Sleep, Munich, The Departed, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Rebel Without A Cause, Zatoichi, Natural Born Killers, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Irreversible, Road to Perdition, Days of Heaven, Lawrence of Arabia, Lost Highway, Brazil, An American Werewolf in London, Sin City, The Royal Tenenbaums, Chinatown, Badlands, (500) Days of Summer, American Beauty, Adaptation, The Exorcist, Perfume, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Enemy at the Gates, Rules Of Attraction, The Station Agent, Spanglish, Igby Goes Down, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, The Bourne trilogy, Old School, Brick, Fight Club, The Kid, Hero, 40 Year Old Virgin, Buffalo Soldiers, Spirited Away, Near Dark, Pi, Memento...

Favoured Televisual:

The Sopranos, The Wire, Generation Kill, Party Down, Carnivale, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, ROME, Oz, X-Files, LOST, Battlestar Galactica, Twin Peaks, Arrested Development, Firefly, The Simpsons, Snuff Box, Family Guy, Look Around You, Jaaaam, The Day Today, Nathan Barley, Brass Eye, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Last Man Standing, Spaced, Summer Heights High, Adam & Joe, Dennis Pennis, Peep Show, Wonder Showzen, The Inbetweeners...

Favoured Words:

1984, American Psycho, A Confederancy of Dunces, A Clockwork Orange, Choke, Girlfriend in a Coma, The Lord of the Rings, The Walking Dead, Watchmen, Scott Pilgrim, Transmetropolitan, Black Hole, Ghost World, David Boring, Empire magazine ;)

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Special Attributes:
  • Lord of the Rings Trivia
  • Music / Film geekyness
  • Mediocre Call of Duty skills
  • Mediocre guitar playing
  • Juggling

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