pithy words & mottos
digital & analog foundry
oils, acrylic & airbrush
avatars and icons
publishing + streaming
goods and services
real and virtual spaces
tessellated surfaces
murals & tromp-l'oeil
streaming-first events
communications,
market voodoo & logos
Scope : Partnered with Adobe and acquired companies to create series of content libraries and licensed original works for distribution and co-marketing arrangements. External independent contractor developing countless interactive examples, tutorials and support files for a series of products and versions of each; Title Maker, Director, Flash, Authorware, Apollo, Flex.
Scope : One decade of advanced technology prototyping including, AU/X OSX & UX/UI simulations, voice-command, touchscreen/gesture, and tablet prototypes for Creative Services, HIG, and ATG programs and from labs to feature development and product marketing rollouts as well as RTE educational materials.
Scope : International iTV host-client development of broadband services for Amsterdam. Formed exotic teams of researchers, inter-disciplinary artists, and coders to create a suite of social, civic, commercial, and privacy apps for citizens. This first non-Microsoft DVB deployment of WebTV included versions of social publishing {pre-Facebook}, Personal/Classified {via Craigs List}, Online Banking {SWIFT}, and interactive layers of app-like web services always available via smart television including all-government services.
Scope :: Design a professional broadcast editing system simple enough for corporate media centers and local television reporters to produce professional content.
Scope : Ongoing design projects and white-label inventions developed, prototyped, and limited-run manufacturing for inventor Thomas Burns. 1( ChopBits personal high-touch hardwood cutlery concept of longitudinal laser-cut joints connect chop stick-pairs made from a single piece of hardwood. License for events, corporate branding, special events all the way down to fine local restaurants - patent-pending.
prototype high-touch wearable tech fashions for status-conscious audience licensable to a Coach, Gucci -or- Armani. Overlapping cosmetic & organizational interests of adult females, ClutchDesk is a discrete retro-mobile office and social command center in stylish leather clutch bag. A variety of keyboards were designed such as pale wood Scrabble-letter keys, faux ivory, and classic Underwood Mechanical - patent-pending.
Scope : Conceived, created, and self-published series of professional quality image libraries. Smart-pixel images embed alpha channels, luminosity, and tessellation, for advanced 3D and image composition and devoured by a new genre of hungry digital graphic pros and Wraptures a series of pioneering VR toolkit libraries. 
I negotiated licensing my seamless images to market developers such as Parametric, Adobe, Corel, Macromedia, Strata3D, Virtus, Specular, and many others. Designed and developed interactive catalogs to review and gather the tile-able textures and presentation background libraries. I founded Form and Function to promote interactive media, create smart content, and self-published these libraries chock-full of hundreds of high-resolution photographic patterns available via each CD-ROM.
Team :: Who do you want on your team?
Rachel
“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
“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
"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
"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
"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
"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™
wrapping textures
smart-pixel
textures
Hand-made libraries of photographic patterns, alpha masks, loops for VR games, CAD/CAM …worlds
Guernica
Project
DynaBook interactive
iTV learning
Hypertext learning with verbs:nouns & video submenus of Picasso's painting as neo window
Catamaran
Shuttle Launcher
Municipal
space travel
Challenger crash inspires new steps off-planet re-thinking Yeager's X-1A space-plane
Aquaphobia
virtual pets
Appy Toys
virtual pets
Share AI pets via fishbowl-cam for socialization & mental health, merging real-world w/licensable gameplay
Temples of
Grace and Love
Public Art
Burning Man
Memorials heal our losses, & I build them for comfort & catharthis... then ritually burn'em down
Rose Mural
city scale art
Portlandia
public art
Realistic red rose over freeway. Grants via municipal, state, & local bands. 150ft x 35ft 1984
Radius TV
Poor-man's VR
product rollout
Where TVs, SmartToasters, Book & Lamp become immersive lessons for product rollout extravaganza
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.
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Capabilities
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Conceptual
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Strategems
- Tactical
- Electronica
- Signals
- Visual ~ Eyes
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Academie
HSD : Lincoln High School, Portland, Oregon
Go 'angry birds' Cardinals!AD : Advertising Art School, Portland, Oregon
Student Body President, fund raising, organize public art projects.
• Visual Design, Composition, Page Layout, Typography, Offset Printing, Packaging, Merchandising
• Murals and public art, Airbrush, Illustration, screen printing, Painting, Supergraphics & Public Communications,
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
Honors History • Painting, Art History, Multi-media, Sculpture, French {Cajun}
School of Architecture Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana *
Advanced Studio • Design, Art History, CAD/CAM, Model Making, Painting * Undergraduate degree incomplete: recruited to Silicon Valley... Hi-jinx ensue
Other notables : Burning Man pioneer
One of the 'Best' minions . . . Temple series
Cacophany Society event salmon-swimming against SF Bay-to-Breakers run: inspiring Bacardi copy-cat ad
Happy Warrior smiley for PDX band Joe'z Mamaz Boyz branding stollen by Nirvana
Co-founded Black Rock Scouts youth program
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Conceptual
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