Hello.
I’m John Bigl, a designer with over 30 years’ experience in motion graphics, video production, 3d animation and graphic design. I enjoy the challenge of communicating complicated stories in a concise, easy-to-follow manner. I strive to make these stories engaging and interesting to the viewer. Finally, maintaining my clients’ brand identity has always been a top priority to me.
Software Experience
I’m well versed in many Adobe Creative Cloud applications, especially After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop. My 3D work is produced in 3D Studio Max (2017). As I work in a Windows environment, Microsoft Office products are also tools at my disposal. Powerpoint has been a focus of most of my Office Suite work.
Portfolio
Multimedia
Ayar Labs AI
Project goals: Communicate the superiority of optical data transmission over traditional electrical transmission and how this is crucial in the expanding processing needs of AI
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, 3DStudio Max
Ayar Labs Telco
Project goals: Demonstrate how higher throughput for Telco —made necessary by AI advancements— can be solved by Ayar Labs fiber and glass solutions
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, 3DStudio Max
Siemens NX for MS Azure
Project goals: Create a high-level, aspirational and fast-paced video highlighting the benefits of a collaborative design suite
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator
Siemens NX for ECAD/MCAD
Project goals: Illustrate, using the analogy of space travel, how the speed of processors has exponentially increased since their inception
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator
Siemens Battery Manufacturing
Project goals: Educate the battery manufacturing industry on the ways Siemens can accelerate the design and production of battery manufacturing equipment
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator
Siemens SISW Awareness
Project goals: Present several examples of innovators who choose Siemens Xcelerator for product development
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Intel Data Privacy
Project goals: Illustrate the security advantages of Confidential Computing and Intel SGX over traditional server infrastructure and security environments.
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, 3DStudio Max
Intel DOD Confidential Computing
Project goals: Demonstrate, at a high level, how Confidential Computing provides sufficient security for critical, military applications and operations
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Intel Thunderbolt Share
Project goals: Show three examples where Thunderbolt Share simplifies the workflow of different roles within one hypothetical company
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Cin7 Explainer
Project goals: Communicate the benefits of Cin7’s automated inventory management (Connected Inventory Performance)
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
ACG Holiday promos
Project goals: Utilize spare time to create short holiday-themed videos for social media
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Experimentation: Show opening animation
Project goals: Experiments with old map style graphics to create a fanciful animation. Included here as a contrast with the more technical/informative animations shown above
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Presentations, infographics and collateral
Celestica “Why Open Networking?” Infographic
Project goals: Espouse the many benefits of open networking and how Celestica is positioned to help business reap the rewards of those benefits
Applications used: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Celestica Partner Solution Briefs
Project goals: Create several digital (non-responsive) pdf guides illustrating how Celestica and their partners work in concert to benefit their customers
Applications used: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Celestica Product Catalog
Project goals: Create a digital (non-responsive) and print version of the Celestica product catalog, including specification tables, product comparisons and several pages of network information.
Applications used: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerators on IBM Cloud
Project goals: Illustrate the benefits of Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators across multiple industries. The final guide was created in Microsoft Powerpoint so that the client could easily leverage assets in other presentations.
Applications used: Microsoft Powerpoint, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Branding and Logo Design
Ronin Jumpbox
Project goals: This was a complete brand design for Ronin Jump Box, produced at the time by Titan Inc. Logos, iconography, color palettes, font choices, presentations and promotional videos, as well as the layout for a responsive website were all included in the project.
The Ronin is an adjustable jumpbox made to be safer and more flexible than current solutions. The machine’s creator named it for a masterless samurai in feudal Japan and wanted Japanese, samurai elements to be reflected in the branding.
Applications used: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, Microsoft Powerpoint
Iconography
Website
The Ronin website was completed on an aggressive timeline of two working weeks. Thankfully, graphics and layout were coordinated with a contracted programmer to get the site running bug-free in the allotted time.
The original website is currently unavailable while the future ownership of the product is in negotiations. Please choose one of the buttons below too open a pdf approximation of the site in widescreen or mobile modes.
Web and UX Design
Siemens Integrated Design Solutions Interactive Infographic
Project goals: Create a responsive webpage to house statistics extolling the virtues of collaborative product design, and why Siemens IDS is ultimately the best solution. This webpage needed to follow the strictly enforced design guidelines of the client and ultimately live on their own site.
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD
Siemens Digital Thread (Product Optimizer)
Project goals: Create a tool to allow product design teams to compare the software they use with Siemens alternatives.
Applications used: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD
Illustration
Alchemist’s Refuge Magic Tokens
Project goals: Create a series of tokens for the game Magic: The Gathering for use as promotional hand-outs at the game store Alchemist’s Refuge. The art chosen is based on silver age cartoon artwork, with text playing off the name of the token to create a whimsical secondary meaning. The final deliverable size of 2.5 by 3.5 inches meant the illustrations and text needed to be legible at a small size
Applications used: Adobe Illustrator
