History

Sam Hayles is an independent design consultant and graphic designer and has experience in working with bands, record companies, DJs, Artists, Music composers since 1999…

Based in Edinburgh/Scotland after having lived and worked in France for over a decade, his capabilities span from concept development to design/direction, animation and illustration. He is also a practicing visual artist working across different mediums.

Sam spent time as a designer and worked for a few agencies, before becoming totally independant since 2004 to focus on his own design and style and this gave him the chance to grow into the style of design he truly enjoys creating and not be influenced by the various trends that seem to infiltrate the collective output of the design and illustration world.

Apparently he finds computer graphics so interesting, that he does it also in his free time!

For any job inquiries : big projects, small projects, comments, fanmail, parties, free stuff, long lost relatives, questions, and/or further information …. get in touch !

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FACTS :

1971 > Born in England

1977 > his dad plays in cult british band Hawkwind. Sam is standing backstage at the Stonehenge Festival

1978 > Family moves to live in the south of France

1983 > sees star wars at the movies. the impact on his brain is done. addicted to moving images and science-fiction.

1984 > His father brings him to see his first metal gig = Motorhead, and meets Lemmy backstage! a very loud gig ! His interest in cover designs begins when looking through his fathers large diverse collection of LPS. His dad buys the first Apple Macintosh – Sam becomes addicted to this new computer which totally amazes him. He also becomes more and more a movie fanatic – he sees Terminator, Alien, Blade runner, Mad Max, Evil dead, Eraserhead, Clockwork orange … more impact on his brain and a love for horror and experimental film emerges.

1987 > starts his first band and does his first logo and poster design for gigs. Plays in many bands for the following 15 years and always takes care of the visuals (logos, flyers, posters …)

1995 > moves back to the UK – does one year of ‘visual communication’ at the surrey institute of art and design – discovers the internet – buys his first own Macintosh.

1996 > moves to bristol – works for the graphics group agency and plays with several local bands. Starts learning 3D softwares and web design.

1999 > moves back to France. starts DOSE-productions and creates his first website (www.dose-productions.com is online since 1999). DOSE-productions was at first a way of showing his personal projects in graphics and motion design.

1999 > sees ‘Fight club’ – 12 times in a month

2000 > while working for a communication agency, he spends evenings and weekends working for himself. a 1st project with pitchshifter (a music video in 3D for the track ‘hidden agenda’). Gets more and more into working for bands designing cds, flyers, music videos and websites.

2005 > he dedicates himself solely to DOSEprod and became an independant freelancer.

2009 > TEN years of DOSE-productions ! With a growing portfolio and great collaborations on projects with truly fantastic people (bands, music composers, record labels, magicians, DJ’s, artists ….). his dream came true doing exactyly what he has always wanted to do.

2010 > A new year and a big change as he has just moved to Scotland and he is now living in the beautiful and inspiring city of Edinburgh where he has set up a new DOSEprod Studio… he’s ready for the next decade…..

GET YOUR DOSE !

Clients

DOSEprod has worked with a wide variety of bands, music composers, music labels and artists across the USA and Europe :

BANDS :

- Pitchshifter (UK)
- This Is Menace (UK)
- Celldweller (USA)
- earthtone9 (UK)
- Senser (UK)
- Fracture (Mexico)
- [we are] the end (UK)
- Victory Pill (UK)
- Shellshock (UK)
- Lastwind (UK)
- thisGIRL (UK)
- I-Remain (UK)
- dRAWBACKS (UK)
- The Rushing (UK)
- The Magic Theatre (UK)
- Reapers in Sicily (UK)
- After the Ordeal (UK)
- Polymorph (UK)
- The Electric Blues Reaction (UK)
- WSNB (USA)
- Slow Motion Replay (Scotland)
- Static Plan (UK)
- Hundred-Seventy Split (UK)
- A Ritual Spirit (Scotland)
- Plastic Noose (Scotland)
- MetalTech (Scotland)
- Faltones (Spain)
- Serpico (Scotland)
- iSonic (Canada)
- The Boss (France)
- Breed Machine (France)
- Head-up (France)
- Doheny (USA)
- Skin The Pig (UK)
- Crucial Attack (Estonia)
- Varez (France)
- Getamped (UK)
- Wired Desire (Scotland)
- Age of Daze (Canada)

MUSIC COMPOSERS

- Robert Duncan (USA)
- Mark Morgan (USA)
- Sonic Mayhem (USA)
- Paul Wilkie (Scotland)
- TrionicLab (Spain)
- Chris Haigh (UK)

DJS, REMIXERS

- BT / Brian Transeau (USA)
- Voicians (Germany)
- Obny (France)
- D-fuse-B (France)

MUSIC LICENSING & PRODUCTION

- Gothic-Storm (UK)
- Twisted Jukebox (UK)
- Shockink (USA)
- PP Music (UK)
- 3AM Management (USA)

RECORD COMPANIES & PR

- EMI (France)
- FIXTmusic (USA)
- PSI records (USA)
- HERO Pr (UK)
- Bionic Monkey Management (UK)
- Genepool Records (UK)
- Feel The Quality Records (UK)

TATTOO
- Jason Corbett aka Zig Zag
- Perle d’Encre (France)
- Arts-SP (Spain)

OTHERS
- Karnival-Inc (UK)
- Big Blind Media (UK)
- Marchand de trucs (France)
- Guitar Edge Magazine (USA)
- SuperSonic Images (France)
- Théâtre de l’Alizé (France)
- RockLifeStyle (UK)
- AmplisoundStudios (UK)
- Asylum Paintball (UK)
- Paul Montague (Spain)

Testimonials

“I have hired DOSE-productions for the design and motion for many varied creative projects over the last decade. I kind of feel like I discovered them in a way, and opened the door to the involvement with the music biz – and I am happy to have been able to connect those dots. Dose always produce amazing work, and have a knack of interpreting the demands of the client into tangible, unique, tailor-made designs of true quality. The only complaint I really have is that I can’t keep them all to myself!”

J.S. Clayden – Pitchshifter / PSI records

www.psirecords.com / www.pitchshifter.com

“DOSE-productions are without doubt the most superlative, imaginative and speedy design service we have ever used. They elevate even the most basic brief into something truly stunning. Genius!”
Owen Packard, BigBlindMedia / Karnival-Inc
www.heropr.com

“DOSE-productions are some of the coolest, most creative visual artists I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, much less working with. As a musician, it is sometimes very hard to comunicate musical terms or transpose them to what I’ll call a visual language. DOSE just f*#^ing get it. They are not only artists, they speak fluent music. An honor and a pleasure to work with this amazing amazing group”
BT (Brian Transeau) DJ and musician
www.btmusic.com

“DOSEprod are fucking awesome! pure punk rock genius graphic designs. They have taken care of Pitchshifter and This is Menace for years!”
Mark Clayden – Bass player > Pitchshifter & This Is Menace
www.pitchshifter.com

“Having decided to do a personal website I looked around at different designers and came across DOSE-productions . Every time I saw a website designed by Sam the only conclusion I could come up is that, the feel he creates in his work had this modern and emotional appeal that would talked to me. I knew if Sam was to design a site for me the collaboration would capture what I’m trying to portray creatively and I was not disappointed. Nice Job DOSE-productions!”
Mark Morgan – Music composer
www.markmorganmusic.com

“Ive been involved in bands and projects that have used DOSE-productions for nearly ten years now, in that time they have never failed to come up with the goods, from website and designs to music videos, everything I have commissioned DOSE to work on has come out amazing, they have a unique style and most importantly will always go the extra mile to ensure the best possible result”
Jim Davies – Guitarist (Pitchshifter – The Prodigy – Victory Pill)
www.victorypill.com

“Working with DOSE means you’re guaranteed a wealth of design experience, a close working relationship and friendly communication resulting in fresh-to-death finished graphics, delivered bang on time. Get your Dose! “
Tim Rayner – dRAWBACKS
www.drawbacks.net

“We’ve been rockin’ graphical projects with DOSEprod since 2005. From our initial ideas, we leave them to run with it and they come back with some truly incredible work which is out there and on the money every time. Get your DOSE!”
Rick Powell, PP Music Ltd
www.pp-music.net

“The unique creative quality and personality of DOSEprod works, will be easily noticed just looking to any piece with his sign on it. But how professional or efficient he could be, or they ability to turn your music and abstract concepts into something visual, is an outstanding experience you only will enjoy sharing your design or web project with him. Well done Mr. DOSE!”
Manuel Alcaraz, Composer and producer
www.trioniclab.com

“DOSE-productions have been instrumental in helping AOD achieve a professional and polished web presence, they were very professional to deal with and very efficient and made our jobs as do-it-yourself musicans much easier and allowed us to focus on more important tasks like securing a management and record deal, I would highly recommend DOSE-productions if you want top notch work on time and on budget”
Tim Morrison, Age of Daze
www.ageofdaze.com

“DOSE-productions are miles ahead when it comes to top quality service. With incredible speed and efficiency, your project will be brought to life with outstanding creativity and artwork. Excellent!”
Paul Wilkie, Music composer
www.paulwilkie.com

“Working with Sam Hayles on the debut PLASTIC NOOSE album artwork was a chilling experience. Basically, I asked for something and I got it. I asked for something else and I got that too. Every stage of the creative process I near enough got exactly what I wanted. Even when I pitched up with last minute changes, I got them! This just can’t be right, I thought! No-one else works like this! It really was a pleasure to work with such a professional and the end results are stunning”
Alan Emslie, Musician
www.plasticnoose.com