![image02](art/figs/fig_lettering.jpg)
pithy words & mottos
digital & analog foundry
![colored prisma pencil on illustration board](art/figs/fig_portraits.jpg)
oils, acrylic & airbrush
avatars and icons
![image03](art/figs/fig_design.jpg)
publishing + streaming
goods and services
![image04](art/figs/fig_faux.jpg)
real and virtual spaces
tessellated surfaces
![image05](art/figs/fig_publicart.jpg)
murals & tromp-l'oeil
streaming-first events
![image08](art/figs/fig_signage.jpg)
communications,
market voodoo & logos
Who do you want on your team?
Rachel
![AKA Speaker-to-Fun](art/figs/pix_rachel_r.png)
“I felt lucky to bring Jonathan's deft hand and eye to my Grass Valley team where we developed media interfaces and experience design still core to Davinci Resolve two decades later!“
Rachel Rutherford
Game Design and Production Digipen Institute
Patrick
![Mentor-par-excellence](art/figs/pix_patrick_s.png)
“Jonathan and I worked together several times over our careers. He remains a standout in my mind. One of the most creative and passionate people I've worked with. His interface and design work to be of top caliber. He is truly a top talent in the Silicon Valley.“
Patrick Sweeney
C E O at Area1 Security
now Cloudflare
David
![Beacon of creativity](art/figs/pix_david_b.png)
"The unique public art we make depends on the tireless efforts of high-caliber volunteers like Jonathan who bring creative problem-solving to every facet; malleable aesthetics, crew morale & social strengths, tireless energy, and a repeated commitment to see through every project to the very end."
David Best
International Artist Burning Man Temples
Morgan
![I would highly recommend Jonathan for any position](art/figs/pix_morgan_n.png)
"Jonathan Gibson is a unique & rare talent in the field of digital media design. His depth of knowledge, technical acumen, & creative genius is rarely found in one person’s repertoire. "
Morgan Newman
Creative Planet Guernica, Columbus Discovery
Seymour
![Software Magii](art/figs/pix_seymour_r.png)
"At every step I have been impressed by his delivery, style, quality, marketing & technical savvy at every task requested. It is a true pleasure working with a creative dynamo like Jonathan and I've worked with the very best. He delivers!"
Seymour Rubinstein
1st editor Wordstar, WebThresher, the EULA
Bill
![AKA visionary inventor](art/figs/pix_william_m.png)
"Jonathan is terrific with
bold ideas & savvy schemes for executive decks -or- action plans at scale. He was my first call about a shuttle re-design team. Lagniappe."
professor William Mouton
School of Architecture, Tulane
Visionary Inventor / Mentor Space Shuttle Launcher 1986
![Wraptures earth globe brand](art/figs/pix_wraptures-one.png)
Wraptures™
wrapping textures
smart-pixel
textures
Hand-made libraries of photographic patterns, alpha masks, loops for VR games, CAD/CAM …worlds
![Hypertext multimedia lessons with new verb:noun queries & video submenus of Picasso's painting as window to non-linear learning.](art/figs/and_gue_01_guernica.jpg)
Guernica
Project
DynaBook interactive
iTV learning
Hypertext learning with verbs:nouns & video submenus of Picasso's painting as neo window
![Space Shuttle Launcher catamaran launch vehicle as safer, eceological, munisple space travel](art/figs/space_shuttle_launcher_1986.jpg)
Catamaran
Shuttle Launcher
Municipal
space travel
Challenger crash inspires new steps off-planet re-thinking Yeager's X-1A space-plane
![Players share Fishies with friends, webcam to Grandma through fishbowl glass so she feeds them when child is away. Toys merge real-world concepts with virtual for licensable gameplay.](art/figs/fig_aquarium.gif)
Aquaphobia
virtual pets
Appy Toys
virtual pets
Share AI pets via fishbowl-cam for socialization & mental health, merging real-world w/licensable gameplay
![Temples heal grieve, death, and loss, and hand-built over many months with love and care creating a balanced, comforting, and peaceful center for emotional release and healing... and then we ritually burn them down](art/figs/fig-temple-2014.jpg)
Temples of
Grace and Love
Public Art
Burning Man
Memorials heal our losses, & I build them for comfort & catharthis... then ritually burn'em down
![Realistic rose urban freeway mural in Portland, Oregon. Local & state art grants and just-folk handing cash.](art/figs/pix_rose-feature.gif)
Rose Mural
city scale art
Portlandia
public art
Realistic red rose over freeway. Grants via municipal, state, & local bands. 150ft x 35ft 1984
![Designed a 3D room with objects for targeted topics; TV for entertainment, Smart Toaster for DTP, Solar System as science, Book is Education. Clicking magic Banker’s Lamp flew audiences to financial screen. Wiring video control and mixing PiP video for immersion telling Macromedia Director to play laserdisc sequences of pre-rendered 3D flight sequence, Dragon’s Lair style.](art/figs/pix_radiustv_room.png)
Radius TV
Poor-man's VR
product rollout
Where TVs, SmartToasters, Book & Lamp become immersive lessons for product rollout extravaganza
![Designed the earth globe icon ID deployed in NCS Mosaic, the first graphical web browser with any appeal. Inspired by shared-vision projects of distance-collapsing art fascinates me, like early linked video cafes of Kit Galloway creating people bridges by opening windows to other worlds](art/figs/pix_mosaic_icon_mac.gif)
Mosaic 1.0
first steps
Here
the internet begins
Designed the earth globe ID of NCS Mosaic, first graphic browser. Inspired by space-collapsing art of Kit Galloway's video cafes linking globe
What we do is who we become.
What we imagine is where to go.
. .. …sand doodling somewhere along the specific ocean.
![](art/figs/pix_selfportrait.png)