Matt Terry : Design Portfolio

My friend Mark Douglass is an incredibly talented man. He's an excellent juggler, awesome poi spinner, great at adagio, hula hoop, staff.... the list goes on and on. I was delighted when he approached me to make his new website.

Souk Trading is a Moroccan furniture supplier based in Brighton UK.

In 2003/4 they decided their site needed some updating. I was called in to turn their html site into a nice little flash showcase site.

The project went well and the client was happy with the results. They have recently changed over to a database driven site.

The Happy Endings are a band based in Melbourne Australia. Whilst I lived over there I worked on a few projects for the band, here's the CD cover I made for their new album.

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.

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.

Similar to Ikon Plugs but with a much smaller image sunk into a navel bananabell as shown in the Red graphic below. Again, I did all the graphics for these and helped develop the product range. Both Ikon Plugs and Picturebells are very profitable ranges for wildcat and the images have been used to develop further products.

The brief for the logo was very specific. I was given several images of grape vines and asked to make the end half of it look robotic.

I made 3d models of vines and leaves using Z-brush and composited everything together with photoshop.

The first image below is the logo used on letter heads.
The second logo is used for slideshow presentations.
The last image shows 2 versions of the logo used in small situations, such as the business card.

Then I asked the client to take some photos of the vineyard to place the robot in. I was quite specific about the camera angles.

The trickiest part of this technique is matching the 3d perspective to the camera lens perspective.

Once i had matched the perspective I rendered the 3d model and then composited the render with the photograph using photoshop.

I've always had great fun with the 'branding' of spherculism. Here's the current site logo and the 'Sm' graphic, aka 'the Sphercular Om'

The DVD took about a year to produce, for six months it was my only job. The final product is 90 minutes long and contains 20 tracks. The music is mainly by a band called Bad Science from Brighton, UK and the video footage is tightly edited to the audio. This was a very big project and I had to learn many new video skills to complete it.

Below are two youtube videos of the DVD trailer and one of the tracks called 'Blink of an I'.

The cover and disk graphics took a long time to produce, here they are.

Soon after making the original spherculism site it became apparent that nobody had ever managed to simulate poi moves in a graphical way. There's many good juggling simulators, there's a cool one for diabolo but not one for poi. So I took it upon myself to make the first one, it's called poibot and I used Flash to build it.

After that Poibot became a bit of celebrity and earned its right to become the official mascot. Here's a closer look at the illustration I did for the dvd. I made the 3d model using Z-brush, then painted all the robotic bits in photoshop. The arms at the back are all traced from video footage in the dvd, so it's an amalgamation of all of us using all our different toys.

I worked on some t-shirt designs for spherculism and firetoys.co.uk, here are some of them: