The Wildcat Collection : Body Jewellery
Between 2002 and 2005 I worked full time at Wildcat in Brighton uk as an in-house Graphic Designer and Web Developer.
Wildcat is a great company. They've been in the body jewellery business since the beginning and have a cult following.
The main goal at wildcat was to make it look cool by any means possible.
Wildcat Webshop : osCommerse : Photoshop and Blender
Most recently I've been working on their new osCommerse site, for which they have re-employed me on a freelance basis:
This site is now LIVE. Click here to view the new wildcat webshop
Here's a closer look at the webshop typographic logo:
Here are some of the icons I designed for the site:
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And here are a selection of the text buttons:
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Flash
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.
These photos of the Glass jewellery are some of the best I took. Then Joe did the graphics for an A6 booklet that we sent out with all orders. Then I made the flash site as a dynamic version of the booklet.
I was with wildcat for 3 years and learnt loads of skills. I look back with very fond memories of the crazy renegade state that is wildcat :)
Wildcat Catalogue 2005
This was a huge project that me and Joe Plant did together. 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.
Adverts
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.
Photography
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 Nikkon D100 digital SLR.
Here are a few of my favourite photos
3d Products
Whilst making the first catalogue we decided to try and make some of the jewellery in 3d. This was helpful for 2 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.
I'll add some images soon.
Ikon Plugs
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. I'll link some images here soon.
Picturebells
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.