Who, you ask?
Preston Thomas
Preston is the Technical Director at Pixel Project. His passion for all things “tech” inspires future tech thinking and cutting edge ideas in Pixel Project.
His skills areas of expertise are Flex and AS3 scripting,, Director Scripting, Animation, Web Site development, Concept, gaming, Motion Graphics, Design.
Preston studied Art Direction at the AAA School Of Advertising.
After completing his diploma and starting up an interactive course at AAA he begun his career at Tool, a digital agency part of the TBWA Hunt Luscaris Group. From there he led the interactive departments of Tinderbox, Delapse and squaredH.
He has picked up numerous awards at these agencies including many Loerie Awards, Spada Awards, Avanti, Cannes, One Show, and Constructus thanks to the great teams he has worked with.
Currently he operates as Pixel Project.
Rahle Dusheiko
Rahle is the Creative head of Interaction Design at Pixel Project. She focuses on the user-interfaces and creative direction in all our work. Her areas of expertise are wireframe development, interaction and interface design, illustration, animation and concept development.
Rahle studied at AAA School of Advertising and specialised in Multimedia.
She first worked as a freelance web developer for 6 months before joining FCB Electric Ocean, Johannesburg as a web designer. She then worked at Blink New Media and fulfilled the position of studio manager till she left to resume a freelance career till moving to Cape Town in December 2002.
She briefly worked for a small startup company called squaredH which primarily serviced BATSA. Currently she operates as Pixel Project.
Jean-Jacques Rossouw
JJ is a young, wide-eyed and bushy tailed designer that has his eyes on the latest design trends and styles but his fingers firmly planted on the past tried, trusted methods and rules. He has an Advanced Diploma After studying Fine Art & Photography at College Of Cape Town and completed his Advanced Diploma in Multimedia design and Production at CityVarsity where he specialized in Print Media design. Part of his Diploma was interactive and motion graphic design, it’s then where he got introduced to the world of evolving technology and decided to take it on as a career.
His strong love for print design never left him and now he combines and looks at interactive design with a different perspective to create work that is not only functional but also pleasing to the senses. He joined the team of pixel’s in 2009 where he has the role of designer, animator and sound editor. In his past time he likes long walks on the beach and saving the rainforest while indulging on a Cosmopolitan and a BigMac MacMeal…Super Size.
Nadia Lurie
Nadia is the Studio Manager at Pixel Project.. Nadia has a strong background in traffic, recruitment and advertising. She joins us to manufacture time and prevent chaos.
Nadia studied advertising and marketing at AAA and specialized in client service.
She discovered her passion for wanting to be involved in all aspects of the studio half way through her specialization, after being introduced to some past traffic gurus from top agencies the bug bit. She has forayed into recruitment and the odd personal business venture over the years but her true love is Traffic and looking after the studio.
“Joining the team at Pixel has given me a new perspective into Digital Media and a new respect for design and technical geeks – The Pixel’s are teaching me so much and it is great to know that one is never too old to become a future tech thinking “Geek”!