R e s u m e

Jonathan Gibson

T y p i c a l O b j e c t i v e

ART DIRECTOR - Graphic Professional 2D+3D - User Interface Designer...
Leadership roles in visual software & development with a preference for coordinating the intersection of animation, modeling & video. I've played producer, production manager and production artist and I am as comfortable wrangling diverse team members towards completion as unifying diverse elements in a composition.

I bring 15+ years experience in all aspects of visual and user interface design and am familiar with modern software development processes and rich media production. I have developed to market numerous consumer and professional product interfaces and overseen development of international broadband interactive television systems and content. I have deep knowledge of all standard production tools and significant ability to transform wide-ranging elements into a tightly and elegantly designed user experience. I've prototyped system level UI advances for Apple as well as applications for professionals and consumer multimedia solutions - primarily with Director and Flash. I can manage small to medium sized groups of talented, but temperamental people with diverse skills and work habits to accomplish difficult productions on time and budget.
I'm as comfortable polishing pixels as presenting shiny corporate pitches.

" Have chair and bullwhip, will travel... "

P r o j e c t s

Please see www.formandfunction.com for particular screen examples and a short history of that project - with the caveat that not all listed here are available online, or for public discussion. Shhh {we keep secrets}!

eCity, Amsterdam, NL
Lead international team of 15 coders and artisans to develop interactive television. Developed numerous iTV prototypes in Director, working designs under WebTV development server/client, and then burned designs & code to deliver working system one year ahead of Microsoft efforts.

Apple Computer
Numerous OS simulations and helper applications, interface prototypes, interactive media development, presentations, QuickTime 1.0 launch partner.

Accom {ImMIX}
"VideoCube/VideoSphere" non-linear video editor for Grass Valley based company
{became Scitex Digital before acquisition by Accom}

Interactive Media Technologies
"IMTX-8000" VideoValet project and Video On Demand prototypes

Telestream
"ClipMail" FTP touch-screen videofax {store and forward device} and international video format conversion.

MediaVision Interactive
"Hard Drive" tech-thriller game based upon same-name novel by computer columnist David Pogue {derivatives found in story-line of movie The Net}.

Creative Planet
{previously AND Communications}
"Guernica Project" interface development pioneering early hyper-linked video-in-window sub-menu exploration of Picasso’s epic painting via interviews, historic & mythic comparisons with other times and places.

Landor & Associates
numerous CD-ROM presentations & development for corporate clients

Ingram-Micro
"CD-Access" un-lockable software distribution using Rainbow Technologies much as Adobe deployed to put unlocked fonts on most desktops.

Sony Corporation
"Sony Buys Columbia" interactive press release explored large chunks of data CD-ROM could distribute -vs- floppy in pre internet times.

Astound {Gold Disk}
"Video Director Home" consumer non-linear video editor & repackaged multimedia authoring system under name "Studio M" for OEM distribution

Clement Mok
"Encyclomedia" illustrations & animations teaching rich media concepts and various consulting projects

Canon USA
VoD prototype 1991. Tokyo A/V presentation at Makahari Messe

Radius Corporation
"RadiusTV launch" a Room with Many Views “poor man’s VR” product launch of 1st professional TV Tuner for Macintosh.

Lotus Corporation
MacWorld-SF premier multimedia launch of Lotus 123 for Macintosh version authored in Macromedia Director

Macromedia
Numerous presentations, Director example files, & multi-year development work with core team. VideoWorks Interactive developer starting with RasterOps video rollout {first Mac 32-bit video} 1988.

Form and Function - self-published image libraries
Licensed Wraptures texture library subset with MacroMedia professional graphics products.

After studying architecture & painting in college I turned a parallel fascination with computer graphics from hobby to a professional career. A bit of ambition and lots of luck made me privy to witness, and participate, in some great changes in how people work with images and text data as society moves from analog to digital. Along the way I've met some of the pioneers of the software and media industries and learned a lot about what works and what doesn't.
If your reading this posting, then I might be able to help you.

I n d u s t r y E x p e r i e n c e

Software and Hardware
- Rapid Prototyping
- Game Development
- Broadband iTV
- Manufacturing
- Consumer Products
- Pro Video Products
- Entertainment Software
- Software Development
- Publishing

D e s i g n S k i l l s

- Advanced GUI development
- 15 years giving Art Direction
- Multilanguage broadband iTV User Interface Design
- Experience with 2D & 3D, Graphic Design, Fine Art, Animation
- Multimedia skills encompass Web, Video, CD/DVD & European iTV. O t h e r

E x p e r i e n c e

- 15 years Production Management
- 5 years Public Relations
- 5 years Marketing Software
- Project Management for Events, Systems, Process & People
- Producer role: CD-ROM, Multimedia, Web, Digital Video, Broadband iTV.

S k i l l s e t - Graphics

- PhotoShop - expert {used it before it was called PhotoShop}
- AfterEffects - advanced
- Illustrator/Freehand/InDesign - expert level
- DreamWeaver/Flex/Flash - expert {used Flash before it was named such}
- Director/Flash/VisualBasic - expert {supplied advanced tutorial and example files shipping with MacroMedia Director, now Adobe}
- VideoSphere/Premiere/Final Cut Pro - expert non-linear video editor
- Quicktime - expert {Apple beta developer for QT 1.0}

S k i l l s e t - Technical

- HTML/CSS - expert
- Lingo, Arti, ActionScript/JavaScript - advanced
- AJAX/XML - advanced
- Flex+Flash+Apollo - advanced
- Ruby on Rails - moderate
- OS X Streaming Media servers - expert
- e-Banking engine deployment {ABN-Amro} - moderate
- WebTV iTV systems - 'beastmaster'

Notable Designs

Pioneered branching interactive media concepts starting with Robert Abels' "Guernica" video-menu driven learning demonstration in late 80's - this was the first deployment of PIP streaming video on the Macintosh platform as educational supplement.

Interfaces for several digital video editors:
Professional grade non-linear editor VideoSphere {Accom}
Commercial oriented Video Director for Home {Astound Corp}
Custom video db front end for Advertising Executives {IMT}

Created and self-published five-library CD-ROM set of extremely useful texture and displacement maps for gaming and interactive media, animated looping clips for music videos and high res for the print world.
Wraptures® series of seamless, tile-able, texture libraries for 2D, 3D graphic professionals. Developed the content, designed packaging, created marketing materials and published an award-winning series of CD-ROMs.
WraptureReels™ the first full-frame full-motion digital library of animated textures as looping digital video clips, circa 1992.
Page Overtures™ two discs of high-resolution textures and backgrounds for graphic DTP/HD professionals.

Advanced graphic interface and usability standards across environments from Mac to PC & from CD-ROM to iTV.

Lead 1st team to reverse-engineer MicroSoftTV server and client for European DVB {broadband} set top boxes - all running from {alien} clean-room Macintosh systems - and developed working deployable prototypes with advanced back-end services ranging from shopping & gaming to privacy and language variations.

Started writing the Great American {sci-fi} Novel STARSWEPT, and developed extensive design docs aligning story plot points to game notions and film interpretation for maximum intellectual property leverage {stay tuned}.

Initiated, produced, & painted large public murals in Portland, Oregon:
- 35 x 150 ft wide Red Rose against sky – DePaul Building
- 15 x 50 ft tall Waterfall Rose – W.Burnside @ I-405
- 40 x 20 ft high Goose Hollow community playground mural
+ misc community murals & wall supergraphics…

R e f e r e n c e s
Bill Hensler, VP of Web, Video + Animation at Adobe, SJ, CA...
Patrick Sweeney, VP SonicWall, SJ CA...
Morgan Newman, co-founder of Creative Planet, NO, LA...
David Pogue, NYT technology writer, Macs for Dummies, NY, NY...
Lynn Clark, Dir. Customer Satisfaction VeriSign, SJ, CA...
Rhonda Hughs, founder PrintVision, Portland Or...
Alexis Rosen, Panix & Grand Central Server founder, NY, NY...
Joe Sparks, co-founder Pop Rocket & interactive pioneer SF, CA...
David Biedny, PhotoShop + AfterEffects author/luminary ...
Marc Canter, founder MacroMedia + Broadband Mechanics ...
Chris Sanders, co-founder Avalanche snowboards & surflasolas.com

C h r o n o l o g y

1988 – to present
Founder & President
Form and Function
Monterey Bay Peninsula, California

Fall ’99 - Jan ‘01
Director of iTV Development
e-City Holdings {defunct}
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1988 - Spring '89
Artist in Residence
RasterOps {TrueVision} Cupertino, Ca

1987 - Spring '88
Advanced Technology Group Product Manager
Jasmine Technology {defunct}
San Francisco, Ca

1987 - Fall '87
Technical Support
SuperMac {UMAX Technologies}
Mountain View, Ca

1986 - 1987
Development Support
Tulane University - Tulane Computing Services
New Orleans, La

1983 - 1987
Tulane University
Painting & Architecture studies
New Orleans, La

Summer '82 - ‘84
Commercial Art School & University of New Orleans
Painting & History
{plus several large commisions for public murals Portland, Oregon}