Matt Terry : Design Portfolio

Here are 2 flash projects I did at wildcat to advertise jewellery.

My Buddy Joe made the original Advert for these new picurebells. I developted the tequnique for rendering the picturebells in 3d so we didn't have to photograph them all. Then I took the photoshop file of the advert and made this flash page.

This was a huge project that me and Joe Plant did together. The catalogue is 192 pages, full colour A4. Containing over 3000 separate products, each with 5 - 50 different specifications.

Joe took care of the graphics whilst I managed the project. I was responsible for grouping the products onto pages. Getting the content written, formatting all the text with In-Design, checking for errors, indexing the products and so on.

We both shared the photographic work and endless hours cutting out products in photoshop.

Whilst at wildcat I made adverts for tattoo magazines. A4 full colour ads that were printed in serveral magazines distributed worldwide. Here's a random selection.

A large part of my job was photographing jewellery and cutting out the backgrounds. Wildcat has thousands of products so it was a very labour intensive job, however I did learn how to use a Nikon D100 digital SLR.

Whilst making the first Wildcat catalogue we decided to try and make some of the jewellery in 3d. This was helpful for two reasons; sometimes we didn't have all the sample jewellery we needed and sometimes the sample jewelery wasn't high enough quality to take really good photos of.

It took a lot of experimentation to get photo realistic jewellery. To do so, I made a 3d model of our photography rig, fiddled with the lights and texture of the walls. Then I experimented with different rendering techniques.

Ikon Plugs were a new product that I spent a lot of time working on. They are a 6mm - 30mm diameter 'plug' which fits a stretched hole in your ear. The front on the plug has a paper graphic embedded into it with clear resin. I did all the graphics for this product range.