About


Anahita Saghafi is the owner of (www.designmaze.co.uk) . She works full time as an IT Professional. You can find Anahita's blog at (www.integralnet.co.uk).. Anahita also has a great interest in Photoshop and Graphic Design which is reflected in this site. In her spare time, she writes and runs (www.busywriters.co.uk).

Here is some of Anahita's history related to web and graphic design:
Actively took part in art and design activities at school ... a long time ago!
Completed an oil painting course ... 1992
Attended a one year Art course ... 1993
Attended Drawing classes while studying for her PhD in Mathematics (Sheffield University)... 1994-1996
Took part in various art workshops and learnt a lot of computer skills ... 1996 -2002
Discovered Photoshop (and fell in love with it) and still learning... 2002 - Present
Studied use of Dreamweaver for web design - 2005
Starting developing web sites - 2006
2007: Studied the use of Cascading Style Sheets in web design layouts
Changed to fully CSS design web sites
2008: Designed abd developed (www.designmaze.co.uk)
Started looking into Search Engine Optimisation and Traffic Building for web sites, and continued with looking into Web 2.0, Rich Internet Applications, mashups and APIs
2009: Built web sites for local small businesses and group
Looked into Twitter and Twitter Background Templates
Continued with Photoshop and photography and experienced with abstract and mathematical patterns
Got busy with Japanese animation and character design after a visit to Japan in summer
Started an art course entitled "Drawing with Charcoal and Pencil"
Looked into logo design methods and tools
Looked into book cover design
Looked into illustration for children's' books
Researched sculpture related drawing as part of the art course
Continuously kept up-to-date with mobile and web technology
Created portal site (www.anahitadesign.co.uk)
Developed interest in social networks - Facebook and Linkedin
Actively published blogs at (www.designmaze.co.uk)
2010: Attended "Flowers in Watercolour" workshop course at RBSA 
Created Designmaze Twitter Page:(http://twitter.com/designmazeuk)
2011: Started a new Online Writing Club Busy Writers. Designed and developed the web site for the club (www.busywriters.co.uk) .
Changed (www.integralnet.co.uk) to a Wordpress site.