Graphic Design, Reading, The History Of The British Empire, Star Wars, Web Design, Blogging, Macintosh Computers, Typography, Museums, Factory Records, Yankees Baseball, Arsenal and Yeovil Town Football Clubs, Nintendo, Green Lantern, Collecting Old Indie Vinyl, Qees, Trexis and Other Designer Toys, Mike Leigh, PS2, Going To The Movies, Eating Out (Indian and Chinese Especially)
Music
Film School, Interpol, Editors, New Order, Joy Division, Dialogue, Fourth Of July, Grinner, Electronic, The Other Two, Kraftwerk, Idlewild, Chapterhouse, Ride, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, The Telescopes, Pixies, Ladytron, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, The Smiths, The Fall, Sigur Ros, Amina, Medicine, Paris Angels, Lowgold, The Fatales, Apartment, Every Move A Picture, Factory Records
Movies
Star Wars, Indiana Jones, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Withnail And I, How To Get Ahead In Advertising, Zulu, Zulu Dawn, Lawrence Of Arabia, Khartoum, Casino, Midnight Cowboy, THX1138, Goodfellas, Mulholland Drive, Wild At Heart, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, Eyes Wide Shut, Good Night And Good Luck, Munich, Network, The Aviator, Saw, Capote, Syriana, Flags Of Our Fathers, Superman Returns, Hollywoodland, not Harry Potter
Television
John From Cincinnati, Wii Sports, Wario Ware Smooth Moves, Entourage, Big Love, Seinfeld, The Apprentice, Tekken 5, EA FIFA 2006, Battlefront 2, Super Mario Brothers, Super Smash Brothers Melee, Mario Kart, Spaced, Alan Partridge, Terrahawks, Star Fleet, Tizwas, Bod, Mr Ben,
Jamie And The Magic Torch
Books
No Logo Naomi Klein
Designed By Peter Saville Rick Poyner
The Ten Rules Martha Stewart
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Outposts Simon Winchester
Blog! David Kline
The Washing Of The Spears Donald Morris
The Stones Of Summer Dow Mossman
War Stories And Poems Rudyard Kipling
Into Africa Martin Dugard
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges
Touching From A Distance Deborah Curtis
I Was A Robot Wolfgang Flur
Heroes
Peter Saville, The Defenders Of Isandlwana (1879), Martin Hannet, Anthony H. Wilson, Rob Gretton, Robert Shadbolt, Michael Moran, Tim Megaw, Paul Elliman, Jo Frenken
School Of Visual Arts
New York,New York
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Professional
Major: Brand Strategy & Advertising
Minor: Copywriting & Advanced Graphic Design
2004 to 2005
Kingston University
Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom
Graduated: 1996
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Critical Fine Art Practice (Sculpture & Art History)
Minor: Photography
1993 to 1996
Yeovil College
Yeovil, United Kingdom
Graduated: 1993
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: BTEC Diploma In Foundation Studies In Art & Design
1992 to 1993
Strode College
Street, United Kingdom
Graduated: 1992
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
1990 to 1992
Huish Episcopi School
Langport, United Kingdom
Graduated: 1990
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
I just got married to the lovely Mary, and we live together in an amzing old house we just bought together in Denville, New Jersey. We live there with our two awesome cats, Maya, and our very own catzilla, Abigail.
Professional Bio Matthew is currently the Director Of Internet Marketing at The Corcoran Group, Manhattan's Largest Real Estate Agency. He is responsible for the development of the strategic direction and tactical implementation of corcoran.com and supporting web marketing platforms. He is tasked with optimizing website performance, translating brand image and positioning online, increasing interactivity across various users; streamlining and developing innovative web content; developing digital marketing options for agents and transition print marketing and advertising into a strong and effective online/digital voice.
Matthew works closely with the technology and advertising departments to create comprehensive solutions and improvements to current web marketing programs; ensuring consistency of representation of the Corcoran brand. He also makes posters :
Prior to joining Corcoran, Matthew was the Creative Director for Music Choice, the multi-platform music network that reaches millions of consumers through their TVs, PCs, and cell phones. Music Choice programs both video and audio music channels, produces exclusive music shows, films in-studio artist performances and interviews, and distributes daily entertainment news.
Shadbolt was responsible for managing a team of eight graphic designers and editors, whose responsibilities include the creation of all cross-platform visual aspects of Music Choices output.
Shadbolt was also charged with creating customized video promotions for advertising sales clients. He recently designed campaigns for Diet Sprite Zero, Saturn and Geico. He designs all corporate materials including brand identity and logo design, product development, affiliate collatoral and interactive demonstrations.
Prior to Music Choice, Shadbolt was Manager of Graphics at QVC Inc., where he oversaw the creative strategy and production of QVCs broadcast output, as well as interactive television product development, creative brand strategy and television marketing initiatives.
Shadbolt got his start in the design field at Edit Design Studio and The DRS Advertising Agency in London. Prior to joining QVC Inc., he was the Senior Interactive Designer at QVC UK in London, where he developed the worlds first real-time interactive television impulse purchasing application, QVC Active, for the Sky Digital Satellite service. In addition to this he was responsible for the graphic creation of www.qvcuk.com, as well as the companys 2001 cross-platform network rebrand.
Shadbolt graduated from the Jan van Eyck Akademie in The Netherlands with a Postgraduate Laureate, specializing in Interactive Design. Shadbolt also taught Introduction to Computational Form on the graduate Graphic Design course at Yale University in 2005. He has also taught Graphic Design and Critical Fine Art Practice at numerous academic institutions including Oxford University, Kingston University, The University of Maastricht, Middlesex University and the Art Institute of Philadelphia.
His prior speaking engagements include the International Symposium on Electronic Art, The Center for Old and New Media (Amsterdam), Stichting de Geuzen (Amsterdam) and the European Media Art Festival. His work has been published in numerous magazines and publications, including Eye, MacFormat and Metropolis M. His work has received many online awards, and he was the recipient of the Jan van Eyck Akademie Purchases and Collection Award in 1998.
Shadbolt has been a member of the New York Chapter of AIGA since 2004 and is an active member of the Anglo-Zulu War Historical Society.
Sometimes I work on animated projects as well - here's a music video I made for Chicago-based 3 piece July Foruth, for their track "We Speed Light".
Who I'd like to meet: Peter Saville, Anthony H. Wilson, Ian Curtis, Winston Churchill, Bernard Sumner, Horatio Nelson, David Livingstone, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas
You have been the best of friends and I've never met you:) Thank you for all your work and assistance with July Fourth. I have loved every piece of art you've made and am fortunate to have had you on my side. I'm starting a new thing so hopefully we get to work together again. Thank you Matt!!
hey matt, thanks so much for everything you've done to help us out -- your flyers have been amazing and really helped define the grinner oeuvre over the past year or two. we will definitely keep you updated with anything we get up to in the future.
