john biddle portfolio
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A portfolio of Illustration and Design by John BiddleTRANSCRIPT
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{ J O H N B I D D L E }
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• ILLUSTRATION THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE = { THE HRAKEN WAKES } • 01
• DESIGN LOVED ONES = { MATCHSTICKS } •02
MATCHSTICKS
PROCESS AND PRACTICEMEDIUM = MIXED
PAGE 02Inspired by lyrics from their
song ‘Matchsticks’ I created
3D typography of the band
name using 6 boxes of
matches and a gluegun.
Positioning the letters
together in differing cuboid
shapes created interesting
geometric sculptures which
I then photographed to carry
the theme of the artwork
through to the reverse.
The illustrations at the top of
the page are some concept
ideas for the album cover
based on photographs I took
at Chester Cathedral.
PAGE 03I painted straight onto the
20” x 16” canvass with
acrylic paint.
The image is an abstract
pictoral representation of the
lyrics of a Loved Ones song.
This piece later formed the
inspiration for a series of
digital and silk screen prints.
PAGE 04 - 05Taking inspiration from my
‘Matchsticks’ acrylic painting,
I drew both these pictures
freehand in ink and then
digitally coloured them in
using Illustrator.
I have concentrated on a few
themes within the song and
interspersed them with my
own illustrative flourishes.
PAGE 01I painted straight onto the
20” x 16” canvass with
acrylic paint.
The image is an abstract
pictoral representation of the
lyrics of a Loved Ones song.
This piece later formed the
inspiration for a series of
digital and silk screen prints.
KRAKEN WAKES
PROCESS AND PRACTICEMEDIUM = INK AND DIGITAL
• ILLUSTRATION LOVED ONES = { MATCHSTICKS } • 03
• ILLUSTRATION LOVED ONES = { MATCHSTICKS } •04
• ILLUSTRATION LOVED ONES = { MATCHSTICKS } • 05
• DESIGN VASCO DA GAMA = { RECORD SLEEVE } •06
VASCO DA GAMAEP SLEEVE
CLIENT = PERSONAL MEDIUM = INK + ACRYLIC
For the release of their debut EP on Payper Tiger Records I created this record sleeve design and a matching release poster for Liverpool band, Vasco Da Gama.The concept behind the design was inspired by conversations with the band and the limited colour pallette I continued to use in further designs for them.
• DESIGN VASCO DA GAMA = { POSTER } • 07
VASCO DA GAMAPOSTER DESIGN
CLIENT = STATIC GALLERYMEDIUM = DIGITAL
I’ve had a relationship with
the Liverpool band Vasco Da
Gama for quite some time
having designed the record
for them on the previous
page and so when I was
asked to create this poster
for their show at Static
Gallery I literally jumped at
the chance.
The concept was to cut the
design to the bare minimum of
colours and populate the poster
with small pieces of information
to build up the design.
I chose to use relatively wide
kerning for the type as the
logo I had designed for Vasco
Da Gama fitted in with this. In
the background I accentuated
the ‘V’ of Vasco by mimicing
it with the 3 colour thin lined
background which helps to tie
it all together.
• ILLUSTRATION EYE EMMA JEDI = { CONCEPT ART } •08
EYE EMMA JEDI
CLIENT =EYE EMMA JEDIMEDIUM = DIGITAL
These digital illustrations are
part of some concept artwork
that I worked on for Norway
based band, Eye Emma Jedi.
One of their tracks was
entitled ‘Chameleon’ and
so using this as a starting
point I experimented with a
limited colour pallette and my
trademark pattern illustration
to build up the final images.
SHIPPING FORECAST MURAL
CLIENT = MERCY + CHIBUKUMEDIUM = MASONRY PAINT
Fellow illustrator Michael
Cottage and myself spent a
day in August 2011 in the Beer
garden of the Shipping Forecast
Bar in Liverpool organised by
Mercy Design Agency.
With two buckets of masonry
paint and some paintbrushes
we created these murals
inspired by quotes from
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemmingway.
• DESIGN SHIPPING FORECAST = { MURAL } • 09
• ILLUSTRATION REAL EATS = { EDITORIAL } •10
THANKSGIVINGDINNER
CLIENT = REAL EATSMEDIUM = INK AND DIGITAL
For their November 2011
Thanksgiving Issue I worked
on these 4 illustrations to
accompany a piece about
Thanksgiving in New York,
Miami and Paris.
I have had a relationship
with Real Eats magazine
as a regular contributor for
nearly two years now having
illustrated many interesting
and varied stories for them.
• ILLUSTRATION REAL EATS = { EDITORIAL } • 11
HOW TO SHUCK AN OYSTER
CLIENT = REAL EATSMEDIUM = ACRYLIC + INK
These are a pair of editorial
illustrations for Real Eats
Magazine to accompany
an article about the annual
Walrus and the Carpenter
Oyster picnic which takes
place on the sands of Totten
Inlet, just outside of Seattle.
I used Lewis Carroll’s short
story as inspiration for the
main image and the spot
image is a short illustrated
guide on how to correctly
open (Shuck) an Oyster.
• ILLUSTRATION SPIEL MAGAZINE = { EDITORIAL } •12
SPIEL MAGAZINEILLUSTRATIONS
CLIENT = SPIEL MAGAZINEMEDIUM = INK AND DIGITAL
The two spreads on this
page and the illustration on
the following page I drew
for international Football
and Arts Magazine, Spiel.
Spiel usually give me free
reign to draw whatever I like
as long as it relates to the
piece. The articles pictured
here are regarding the New
York Cosmos football team;
a football match between
Spiel and a Liverpool band
named Vasco Da Gama; and
a halloween bear for their
autumnal issue.
• ILLUSTRATION SPIEL MAGAZINE = { EDITORIAL } • 13
• ILLUSTRATION HAIRY RECORDS = { PREP WORK } •14
BUCK’SDREAM
CLIENT = HAIRY RECORDSMEDIUM = INK
As a precursor to painting my mural in Hairy Records I sketched out a few ideas using the Buck Mulligan character from Ulysses.
As the logo of Hairy Records was a butterfly I imagined the character Buck as a butterfly and went from there. There drawings are both indian ink sketches.
• ILLUSTRATION HAIRY RECORDS = { MURAL } •
OF BUCK ANDBUTTERFLIES
CLIENT = PERSONAL MEDIUM = INK + ACRYLIC
I was given free reign to paint
whatever I liked on the 22’ x
8’ record store wall, the only
stipulation was that it had to
be in black and white. Using
the Buck and Butterflies that
I developed in my sketches I
covered the wall in 9 different
illustrations of them. These
then formed the centerpiece
for the upstairs live lounge
part of the new store.
15
LAST AND FIRST MEN
CLIENT = LOVED ONES MEDIUM = INK + DIGITAL
PAGE 18 - 21On the following pages
are 4 illustrations for Olaf
Stapledon’s Last and First
Men. Taking phrases from
the book I used them to form
the basis of the illustrations.
The book tells the history of
the future, describing from
First Men (us) to the Last Men
(Giant Brains).
• ILLUSTRATION PERSONAL = { LAST AND FIRST MEN } •16
• ILLUSTRATION PERSONAL = { LAST AND FIRST MEN } • 17
• ILLUSTRATION PERSONAL = { LAST AND FIRST MEN } •18
• ILLUSTRATION PERSONAL = { LAST AND FIRST MEN } • 19
• ILLUSTRATION LIME PICTURES = { ARTWORK } •20
• DESIGN AND BRANDING LIME PICTURES = { COLLEGE COFFEE } • 21
COLLEGE COFFEE BRANDING
CLIENT = LIME PICTURESMEDIUM = DIGITAL
As part of my placement at Lime Pictures I spent a few days working on branding ideas for their new coffee shop. My logo was used in the set as was my colour scheme as can be seen in the photograph above.
HOLLYOAKSCANVASSES
CLIENT = LIME PICTURESMEDIUM = DIGITAL
PAGE 22 I produced a series of eight
A2 digitally printed canvasses
for display on the set of the
Liverpool based television
programme, Hollyoaks.
Pictured are 4 of the finished
images that I created entitled:
‘Rock Climbers’; ‘Deer Tree II’;
“South Stack” and “North Stack”.
• DESIGN TRINITY MIRROR = { GRAND NATIONAL } •22
GRAND NATIONALCOURSE GUIDE
CLIENT = TRINITY MIRRORMEDIUM = FLASH + ILLUSTRATOR + PHOTOSHOP
On my placement at Trinity
Mirror I created an interactive
Flash map of the Grand National
Racecourse. A print version
of the map featured in the
Liverpool Echo’s special
publication with the interactive
flash map appearing on their
website. As the animated
horses make their way around
the course, infographics flash
up highlighting information and
photographs relating to the
different jumps.
• LOGO DESIHN VARIOUS CLIENTS = { MIXED }• 23
LOGO DESIGN
CLIENT = VARIOUSMEDIUM = MIXED
Six logos that I have designed
in the last year during my
placements and during my
modules at LJMU.
SO ABLETT
CLIENT = SPORT MEDIA
MEDIUM = MIXED
Gary Ablett’s family are setting up a cancer foundation in his name entitled ‘So Ablett’. Of the 8 options sent over for approval, this was my favourite that I created. The purple of the heart is a mix between Everton blue and Liverpool red as of course he famously played for both teams.
THIS PENDANTWORLD
CLIENT = PERSONAL
MEDIUM = MIXED
In the first session of drawing with my ink pens I draw a portrait of a grizzly bear. This last two years I’ve always had a soft spot for it and so it was a no-brainer to digitise that same bear into hexagons for my logo. The hexagon is of course the outline of an isometric cube which feature regularly in my illustrations.
TECHTUNG
CLIENT = LIME PICTURES
MEDIUM = MIXED
Of the many logos that I designed for Lime Pictures was this one for ‘Techtung’. The logo is for a technology company and was used to adorn the packaging of a tablet PC, the packaging of which I also designed.
LOVED ONES
CLIENT = LOVED ONES
MEDIUM = MIXED
During my Process and Practise module I created some typography using 175 matchsticks. This logo that I designed for the band ‘Loved Ones’ took a verticle view of those matchsticks in cubes of 25.
COLLEGE COFFEE
CLIENT = LIME PICTURES
MEDIUM = MIXED
As part of the branding for the Hollyoaks Coffee Shop, College Coffee, I came up with this concept for the logo design which was later developed into the large letterforms which take centre stage on the wall of the set.
SCRAPPBOOK
CLIENT = SPORT MEDIA
MEDIUM = MIXED
A first task for my placement at Sport Media. They were developing a series of Ipad Apps which would take the form of a scrapbook, tellingbehind the scenes information of a series of celebrity and sports stars. My logo utilised the idea of a fold out book to create the logo.
• WEBSITE LAYOUT DESIGN THIS PENDANT WORLD = { 01 } •24
THIS PENDANT WORLD
CLIENT = PERSONAL FORMAT = WEB DESIGN
A simple modular layout for an Illustration and Design portfolio website.
The variety of work was such that the grid layout featuring a random selection of the top 20 projects worked really well,
Clicking on the menu to the left, the projects can be sorted into specific groups e.g: Illustration; Web Design.
• WEBSITE LAYOUT DESIGN THIS PENDANT WORLD = { 01 } • 25
SEAVIEW CARAVAN PARK
CLIENT = S.C.P.FORMAT = WEB DESIGN
The brief here was to create an open, welcoming website in order to encourage visitors to the newly refurbished caravan park. The site had to be appropriate for elderly users and also children so all menus had to be very clear.
The main feature of the site is the large pictoral banner with scrolling images depicting the best aspects of the site.
• WEBSITE LAYOUT DESIGN SEAVIEW= { 02 } •26
• WEBSITE LAYOUT DESIGN SEAVIEW = { 02 } • 27
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
CLIENT = PDWFORMAT = WEB DESIGN
PDW are an Extra Care housing management company who are based in Warrington, Cheshire. Their current website is cluttered with a great deal of information so I reformatted their brand to create a clean, simple site for them to showcase their sevices to their clients for effectively..
• WEBSITE LAYOUT DESIGN PDW = { 03 } •28
• WEBSITE LAYOUT DESIGN PDW = { 03 } • 29
• LAYOUT PERSONAL = { CURRICULUM VITAE } •30
C O N T A C T
JOHN BIDDLE+44 (0) 78 906 99085
E X P E R I E N C E
2011 - 12 F R E E L A N C E D E S I G N E R L i m e P i c t u r e s After completing a two week placement at Childwall based Television Production company, Lime Pictures I started work as a Freelance Designer where my duties include: Packaging Design; Poster Design; Coffee Shop Branding; Logo Design and Website Layout.
2011 - 12 D E S I G N I N T E R N M e r c y D e s i g n A g e n c y I was successful in getting onto Mercy’s 12 month Internship scheme last year. The interns set up a design collective called Young Pines who have done a great variety of print and web layout design and illustration for clients such as: Chibuku; Beacons Festival and Spiel Magazine.
2010 - 12 I L L U S T R A T O R This Pendant World As an aside to my studies I have been working successfully as a Freelance Illustrator and Designer for the past two years and have regular clients including: Nomad Editions (A Manhatten based food and lifestyle Magazine Publisher) and Spiel Magazine (An international Football and Arts Magazine).
2012 D E S I G N P L A C E M E N T Tr i n i t y M i r r o r I worked at Trinity Mirror Northwest for two weeks as a Graphic Designer on the Picture Desk. Whilst there I created an interactive Flash Application for the Liverpool Echo website’s Aintree Grand National coverage, as well as business infographics for the Liverpool Post.
2012 D E S I G N P L A C E M E N T S p o r t M e d i a At Sport Media I worked on a number of projects including Logo Design and Magazine page layouts for LFC Magazine and The Chelsea FC Programme.
2012 D E S I G N P L A C E M E N T U n i f o r m During my two weeks on placement at Uniform I digitally Ilustrated for international clients such as Unilever and DDB. On completing my time there, Uniform hired me on further projects fortheir client Unilever on a freelance basis.
2011 D E S I G N P L A C E M E N T N o n C o n f o r m I spent three weeks at Non Conform design in Liverpool where I worked on corporate brochures, logo design and photography.
S T A T E M E N T
I am a motivated Designer and Illustrator recently graduated from Liverpool John Moores University.
Over the last two years I have increased my design skillset by attending a number of placements and internships at leading Design Agencies, Publishers and Television Production Companies. As an aside to my work based learning I have worked successfully for two years as a Freelance Illustrator with clients including: Nomad Editions; Spiel Magazine; Static Gallery; Red Bull; Lime Pictures and Uniform.
With my sights firmly set on working within the design sector I hope to gain a position at a forward thinking and vibrant company where I will be able to showcase my creative skills within multiple print and digital formats, working as a motivated team member bringing initiative and creativity to my job role.
S K I L L S
A D O B E C R E A T I V E S U I T E : INDESIGN; ILLUSTRATOR; PHOTOSHOP; DREAMWEAVER; FLASH; PREMIER; ACROBAT.
F I N A L C U T P R O
E D U C A T I O N
2010 - 12 L I V E R P O O L J O H N M O O R E S U N I V E R S I T Y B A ( H O N S ) G R A P H I C A R T S FIRST CLASS HONOURS (EXPECTED GRADE)
2002 - 03 L O U G H B O R O U G H S C H O O L O F A R T DIPLOMA IN ART AND DESIGN
1995 - 02 C A L D A Y G R A N G E G R A M M A R S C H O O L 11 GCSES A+ - C, 4 A LEVELS A - C
R E F E R E N C E S
JULIA GODFREY G R A P H I C A R T S L E C T U R E R L J M U0151 904 1146 [email protected]
VICKY ADLARD A D M I N I S T R A T O R L M T T0151 708 3700 [email protected]
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• LAYOUT PERSONAL = { CURRICULUM VITAE } • 31
CV
CLIENT = PERSONALMEDIUM = DIGITAL
For my graduate show I designed and printed a series of CVs for distribution to Design Agencies.
To the reverse of the writing I thougt it would be a good idea to include a series of my prints in order to encourage people to take the CVs.