{"id":60,"date":"2009-04-23T12:41:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T12:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedbydesign.com\/news\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2020-02-17T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T16:54:27","slug":"about-fired-by-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/firedbydesign.com\/?page_id=60","title":{"rendered":"About Fired By Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Fired By Design features news, reviews, interviews and articles by Michael Burns, a freelance writer based in the UK.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>It focuses on a broad range of the visual arts, from graphic design and illustration through to visual effects and film and TV post production.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Content includes news of hot projects and commentary on general design, film and broadcast industry trends, as well as other exclusively online material. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Fired By Design also acts as an online <\/strong><strong>resource<\/strong><strong> and showcase<\/strong><strong> for some of my published work, offering an archive of interviews and features, some previously available only in an edited form.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>I&#8217;ve been a freelance writer and magazine journalist for over twenty years, writing for titles covering design and digital content creation, broadcast production, TV and film post production and animation.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Before going freelance in 2001, I held various editorial posts in the UK publishing market, including positions such as editor of CGI Magazine, creator and editor-in-chief of the Future Publishing portal Computercreative.com,\u00a0 as well as senior editorial roles on Macuser and Macworld magazines.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>I&#8217;ve also curated\/produced conferences for a number of professional sectors, including VFX, archive\/restoration and sports broadcasting, and have written several books on digital content creation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Here are some links to my work online:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a title=\"articles for Broadcast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastnow.co.uk\/michael-burns\/1633.contributor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Articles for Broadcast Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a title=\"Digital Arts Michael Burns\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalartsonline.co.uk\/authors\/michael_burns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Articles for Digital Arts <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a title=\"Televisual\" href=\"http:\/\/www.televisual.com\/index.php?page=c-search&amp;search_keyword=Michael+Burns&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Articles for Televisual<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.co.uk\/search\/?action=dosearch&amp;displaytype=reviews&amp;filterby=&amp;orderBy=datedesc&amp;searchFromDateDay=10&amp;searchFromDateMonth=5&amp;searchFromDateYear=2009&amp;searchToDateDay=10&amp;searchToDateMonth=6&amp;searchToDateYear=2009&amp;search_blogs=1&amp;search_features=1&amp;search_news=1&amp;search_reviews=1&amp;thecriteria=%22Michael%20Burns%22&amp;useDates=no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reviews for Macworld<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>If you are interested in hiring me for my copywriting and editing skills, please get in touch.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>If you&#8217;re in PR, you can find out more details about me by searching for Michael Burns at the <a href=\"http:\/\/freelanceprofiles.responsesource.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Journalist Directory<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Any enquiries<\/span><b>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/b><strong>any comment, please email michael at firedbydesign.com<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Michael Burns, February 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fired By Design features news, reviews, interviews and articles by Michael Burns, a freelance writer based in the UK. 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