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Welcome I like to think of myself as a designer, I’m trained in graphic design and I have been designing for my income over the past few years. This career as it has also been varied and taken me on many different paths of being as designer as I would like to show your through my portfolio. I have designed logos to billboards, web sites to TV pieces and a large amount in the middle be it print or digital, lucky enough to grow up in an age of Facebook and Youtube I have been able to start my own projects and freelance as well as work contract and in a studio. This background has given me a diverse range on skills from dealing with customers and clients to sitting in a room by myself for long hours at a time to get things done to a deadline. I have always had a passion for design and visual arts which is how I got into it all and being fortunate enough to design for companies and people who share a similar vision or let me create something that I like to look at. Having worked in a variety of environments and a variety of media I am always learning new tools and techniques to create the next piece, this is one of my favourite parts of being a designer. So thats a little about who I am, take some time to look at what I have done and maybe we can work together on creating something new. Thanks Riley Bathurst
Chill Adventures
Magazine Advertisement Design & Photography
I began working with Chill adventures back in the winter of 2009 as a freelance photographer that turned up to a big mountain skiing competition and got a few shots for their annual winter magazine. As Chill began to move from a winter only operation, with a multi mountain ski pass to a year round business with summer based around mountain biking I was brought into the Chill Studio’s as a designer and photographer. I worked on creating new advertisement as well as updating and modifying current ads to have them fit within the new summer focused magazine. I worked on 13 Ad’s from new designs of full page ad’s to adjustments on small strip banners for a range of companies. I shot a large number of photos including the cover of the magazine.
Left Cover Photography by myself design by Spinifexdesign.co.nz Right Strip Adverts for Chill Adventures winter, Mt Cheeseman & Lake Tekapo Holiday Homes. 140 x 45 mm (each) Full Colour CMYK Photoshop CS5 InDesign CS5 Illustrator CS5
The Vintage Peddler
Branding, Brochure, Website & Photography
Christchurch New Zealand
Continuing my work with Chill Studios as they are branching away from their winter image bringing in a fleet of vintage bikes for hire, the style of design is to reflect the bikes from the 1970’s and incorporate the indie culture and those looking for an environmentally friendly and relaxing way to see the city. The target audience involves those on holiday who can rent by the hour up to a week at a time as well as local who can enjoy different parts of the city meaning the deign can not feel to “touristy”. Taking the design to the second season also meant bringing in a website to fit with in the design style, bring the colours out more and keeping the design fresh.
Left: DLE, front 2011 210 x 99 mm Full Colour CMYK Illustrator CS5 Photoshop CS5 Right DLE, front 2010 210 x 99 mm Full Colour CMYK Illustrator CS5 Photoshop CS5
The Lost Duck
Graphic Designer, Photographer & Assistant Editor
The Lost Duck was a brand new fortnightly publication containing an events guide, maps, advertising, directory, restaurant guide and more about to launch in the town of Whistler, BC, Canada looking for a designer to create a map of the village. After a quick interview I drew a map in about 10 seconds flat and went so something like this? We agreed then I spent time making it what I thought was better until we kept coming back to the original sketch and finally refined what we were looking for and as I could do that I was asked to stay on as publication designer. As the designer for the first season of the Lost Duck I created six issues, the maps, advertisements as well as editorial content and photography. The Lost Duck is targeted toward the large amount of visitors to Whistler who need use maps, guides and events that can all fit easily into a pocket as well as the locals who can find out about one time events such as music acts or changes to weekly events with the community notices. Each issue’s cover has the same basic look and feel but changes colour so that a new issue can be easily identified. The design is simple to make sure the content is most important and fitting in large amounts of content to a publication that has a fixed size is of major importance.
Above and right. Issue 6 22 x 14 Inches Full Colour CMYK InDesign CS3 Illustrator CS3 Photoshop CS3
The Clubbies
Documentary Producer & Filmer
The Clubbies is a project I have been looking to for a number of years, taking my background in the action sports industry and taking it to a documentary style approach of something unique that New Zealand has to offer, the club ski fields of the South Island. Spending a large amount of the 2011 winter in the mountains, I have worked with a small crew to produce a series that has captured the attention of some of the worlds largest snowboarding websites and outdoor enthusiasts to gather more than five thousand views for the two episodes out so far. I was producer, half of the film team, also the photographer, designer for the marketing material, the logo, the website live at www.theclubbies.com and managed to get myself in front of the lens to ride more than I expected to as well.
Above Ep1 Final Cut 7 MPEG Streamclip Youtube
Web Design & Development Website coding was something I picked up out of necessity, and it didn’t seem too hard. I had a few sites coded from my design but having to hand over every small change was getting tedious so I learnt a few tricks and I’m not a full blown coding genius but I do believe the ability to code together a site does help with designing them. I like wordpress as a CMS and have experience working with a couple of others.
TWGsmarts.com
gardenclassics.co.nz
yeboi.co.nz
bencomber.com
NZwakeboard.com Website Director
NZwakeboard.com was my first large scale personal project released to the public, starting in the spring of 2010 I developed, and almost single-handedly produced the content for a New Zealand wakeboard and wakeskating blog. I was disappointed with the lack of media coverage I could receive while competitively wakeboarding around NZ so I decided that I had all the skills to make the media point myself, I may not have had all the skills but in the first year I have learnt a lot and continue to do so as the site passes through 200 blog post and I created a dozen videos in the first summer alone. With the help of a few riders and some fans I have created the start of what I would like to see in a media channel for New Zealand wakeboarders. The site is live at NZwakeboard.com and has over 500 likes on facebook.com/nzwakeboard
Above NZwakeboard.com Wordpress Illustrator CS5 Photoshop CS5
Garbarini Photographics
Image manipulation, Retouching & Airbrushing
The day after I graduated from Design and Arts College I walked into a job designing for Christina Garbarini and got my first taste of working in a studio environment, with tight deadlines and high numbers of images. I have been taking studio images and applying them to backgrounds from stock imagery or artificial backgrounds made up from several stock images. The images focus on different elements due to client’s needs, clothing, hairstyles whatever they are looking to market but all revolves around strong people and colours. Clients include: Stirling Sports Synergy Hair Canterbury Leather
Above Multiple works Works completed in CMYK & RGB All work completed in Photoshop CS3 & CS5 Capture One
CHILL Studios Reference
21 December 2011, Riley has worked in a creative capacity for Chill Studio accorss a number of aspects - graphic gesign, web design, photographic services and film work. Riley has delivered professional photographic services during both winter snow and summer bike season. His eye for capturing the flavour of our message through imagrey is superb. Riley is also a competat camera person, and has produced a number of webisode for some of CHILLs event activities, including the K2 Big Mountain CHILL Series and the Black Diamond Big Mountain. His work has included pre-production planning, onsite filming and directing, plus editing along with website delivery. Recent graphic and design work has included a photo shoot for bike hire business, graphic design and advert work for our summer bike magazine and a DLE brochure, website design for the bike hire business and T-shirt design with branding. We continue to use Riley across all aspect of our design and creative work. Stu Waddel Director Chill 021 677 245 www.chilstudio.co.nz stu@chillout.co.nz
The Lost Duck
Reference
To Whom It May Concern Riley Bathurst worked as a graphic designer for Yellow Duck Publications, for the 2009-2010 winter season in Whistler, BC, Canada. Riley is without doubt, a truly hard working individual. In the time that he worked for me, he showed a maturity, dedication and professionalism that is quite rare to find. In the many employees I have had in various businesses over the years, Riley stands out as an individual that was able to demonstrate a reliability and work ethic that was truly remarkable. Riley, was easily able to grasp concepts and ideas and work on them with little supervision or direction. When there was need to conceptualize an idea, Riley was always able to offer useful suggestions and ideas. Without the hard work of Riley on ‘the Lost Duck’, I have little doubt that the project would have been as successful as it was. I have no hesitation in recommending Riley and I wish him every success for the future. Sincerely, Peter Buchholz Publisher t: 604-698-5601 e: info@thelostduck.ca w:thelostduck.ca
Job History
February 2009 - Continuing Freelance graphic designer as Riley Bathurst Design April 2011 - Continuing Graphic Designer & Photographer for Yeboi Apparel February 2011 - November 2011 Producer of The Clubbies September 2010 - Continuing Director, Designer, Photographer for NZwakeboard.com February 2009 - September 2010 Graphic designer for C&G. Creative House, As an inhouse designer. New Zealand. Major roles and projects: Photoshop retouching and background manipulation for fashion photography Clear cutting and retouching for product photography September 2010 - September 2011 Events Photographer for Metropol Magazine August 2010 Study of Dreamweaver at Natcoll December 2009 - May 2010 Photographer for Coast Mountain Photography, BC, Canada January 2010 - June 2010 Designer for the Lost Duck, BC, Canada April 2010 - June 2010 Nightlife Photographer for clubzone.com, BC, Canada October 2009 - February 2010 Nightlife photographer for What’s Up Whistler.com, BC, Canada June 2009 - Continuing Photographer for nzsnowboard.com April 2008 - February 2009 Studying for a Diploma in communications arts and design at the Design and Arts College of New Zealand
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