Michael Murdoch

CEO and Founder

Michael founded The House in 2009 and is responsible for creative output, managing the team and keeping our clients smiling. He is an experienced designer having over 10 years experience working in London and Hong Kong and has helped organisations of all sizes like the NHS, MTV, Diabetes UK, Boots, Heineken, Global Goals and Nokia to smaller start-ups like Olive Branch, Mixcloud and Readwave. Michael helps clients find their full potential, taking them step-by-step through their projects in partnership with them.

Graduating from Central Saint Martins and the University of West of England, with a time spent studying in Hong Kong, Michael has the training and skills required for any big brand name. Past companies Michael has worked at include Lloyd Northover, Ingredient, Getty Images and Root Design.

When not dreaming up creative and commercially viable ideas Michael loves to gain inspiration from travel (35 countries and counting), practicing Tai Chi and Yoga, cycling to and from work, running (2 marathons down and a few to go) and photographing the wonderful things he sees.

Fancy a chat?  Email michael@thehouselondon.com

Simon Van Blerk

Chief Technical Officer

Simon cut his teeth as a freelance web developer and entrepreneur in the 90s when the web was a primitive beast. During his career so far he has worked at the worlds largest privately owned gaming portal, Miniclip, and spent several years contributing to and later leading the Miniclip web development team. In 2010 Simon co-founded 3step Web to bring agile and iterative web development to small businesses including co-founding a funded tech start-up.

He excels in managing digital teams so that every project stays on task and on time, connecting the dots between coder and client.  Not only does he have the technical skills to code fantastic website which meet all web standards, he has the personable skills to get the job done efficiently and effectively.

In his spare time he plays with his kids, reads comics and rides a skateboard (badly).

Nenad Poznanovic

Web Developer

After completing a  Master’s degree in Graphic Engineering and Design, Nenad became a Front-end Developer and has over 3 years of experience in planning, coding, testing and maintaining websites.

Working with the latest technologies on diverse projects he looks for new challenges in IT every day.  So for all your HTML5, CSS3, SASS and Javascript needs, set him a challenge. He’s passionate about scalability, modularity, front-end performance, responsive design, transitions, animations and anything frontend related.

Outside of work, Nenad enjoys a good book, basketball and kicking around a football in hist spare time.

Nenad Jelovac

Senior Web Developer

A talented front-end website developer specialising in the slickest and cleanest code in town, bring to life our gorgeous designs to create full responsive websites that work on all browsers and screen sizes.

We have worked with Nenad for a few years now and are always impressed by the quality and speed at which he works. Having realized IT colleges become obsolete by the time you graduate he dropped and found his love in HTML5, CSS3, SASS and Javascript. He’s passionate about scalability, modularity, frontend performance, responsive design, transitions, animations and anything frontend related.

Carl Stratton

UI and UX Designer

A lover of Grids, type and type on grids, Carl is a creative thinker with over eight years industry experience. Anything involving identity, brand or digital will put a smile on this guys face.  He loves pixel perfect design, user-centric approaches and surpassing client expectations specialising in creating beautfiful website design in Photoshop format…fully responsive too! In his spare time likes to cook, travel and blog numbers <everyonesfavouritenumber.tumblr.com>.

Adam Walden

Senior Designer

Adam graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a BA(hons) in Graphic Design. He can turn his hand to a wide array of creative briefs with talents ranging from illustration, to web design, to animation.  Adam has been with us from the start and knows us and our clients inside and out.  He’s a dab hand a identity creation to and has worked on international projects like www.commonwealthwriters.org. Adam also is a keen musician and a distance runner and he is capable of consuming phenomenal amounts of tea.