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Specialising in web and new media design, I have created
websites for major clients such as NCR, BBC, Capital Radio,
XFM, zoggle.com, TFiFriday, Virgin Radio and Snickers. Mydesign consultancy work includes Morgan Stanley, BBC,
ihavemoved.com, Hyperinteractive and British Council.
In June 2000, I was listed in Internet Magazine as one of the '50
most influential people in the UK web industry'.
Click here to find out more about me and urban75.
homepage - intro - folio - press - mail - jobs - urban75 ezine
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BACKGROUND STUFF: Since graduating from Camberwell
College with a First Class Honours degree in Graphic Design, I
have been specialising in multimedia and web work.
From August 1996 to October 1997, I was responsible for the
design of the Snickers Megakick football website which has
been acknowledged as one of the most successful web sites
ever produced in Europe. The site won many on-line awards and
my work on this project was featured in the 1997 D&AD Annual.
Since then, I have designed sites for major clients such as
NCR, Virgin Radio, TFiFriday, Capital Radio, XFM, zoggle.com,
BBC, Direct Connection, Morgan Stanley, I Have Moved and
Zenith Films.
My web design consultancy services have been used by the
BBC, British Council, firstlook.com, InForm, WebMedia, 4i,
Axon, Clickmusic, Hyperinteractive, amongst others.
I have worked extensively in the US, working as creative director
for New York-based community site, zoggle.com, and San
Francisco multimedia site, firstlook.com.
In June 2000, I was on the cover of Internet Magazine as one of
the '50 most influential people in the UK web industry'.
Other work includes book covers, music CD illustrations ( 'Acid
City' on Sony) and art directing CD-Rom presentations. I have
recently been approached by a major art publisher to author a
web design book, with a tentative release date of May 2001.
Watch this space!
PROFESSIONAL STUFF: I've been fortunate enough to have
been asked to judge on several international design awards,
including the London International Advertising Awards, the 1999
D&AD Interactive Design Awards and the first ever BBC2
Awards, 2000.
I have lectured at Brighton Univer sity for two years and regularly
chair web-related discussion forums at institutes such as the
ICA, the University of Exeter, Camberwell School of Art and
South Bank University. I was also the focus of a 1999 BBC2Education program about webskil ls.
I write for the UK's biggest Net magazine, Internet Magazine (as
their resident 'Web Expert' and software reviewer) and have
contributed to online magazines and mainstream publications
such as the New Statesman, Daily Telegraph and Independent.
Photography is very important to both my commercial and
personal work and examples of my personal work may be seen
here.
URBAN75 EZINE: The urban75 website is my own personalproject which has been on-line for five years. Initially starting life
as a paper based venture, I quickly learnt that the internet could
provide a quicker, cheaper and more efficient means of
publishing my words and images with the potential to reach a
far wider readership.
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In April and May 2000 it was listed by top9.com as the most
popular lifestyle/culture website on the web, attracting over half
a million unique users per month. Despite many lucrative offers,
urban75 remains s taunchly non commercial and carries no
advertising or product endorsements.
urban75 has received a huge amount of press attention with
both national and international reviews in MTV, Radio One, ITV,
BBC, Channel Four, US Newsweek, The Times, Time Out,
Billboard, Guardian, Observer etc, while mainstream media like
the Electronic Telegraph regularly link to the news section for
alternative reports on underground events. A full listing of
urban75's press can be seen here.
In March 1999 I was flown out to Chicago to appear on the
national 'Jenny Jones Show' and talk about urban75 - which was
somewhat bizarre!
The site has won many on-line and magazine awards and has
been described as "the most relevant, innovative site of the
nineties" by Internet Magazine and "probably the finest and
best-designed independent site in Britain" by the Daily
Telegraph.
homepage - intro - folio - press - mail - jobs - urban75 ezine
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In 2010 the ‘pen picture’ on jonathanbishop.com of me read as follows:
Jonathan Bishop is a leading public figure in the socio-legal, info-scientific and economic
solutions to issues affecting techno-cultural communities, both organic and virtual. A
pioneer in educational technology and online community development, the achievements
of Jonathan Bishop includes the Circle of Friends social networking technology and the
PARLE e-learning system. He is committed to making further significant contributions to
society
One might argue that using the word ‘leading’ is puffery. This is the case, as it is called a ‘mere
puff ’. It is perfectly legal to use words like ‘leading’ as it is generally accepted they are used for
marketing purposes only.
Pioneer is also a technical term, simply used to refer to someone who has taken a particular area
forward. Anyone whose degree dissertation finds out something new is a pioneer. Some might argue
that to be a pioneer others have to following your work. So equally a degree dissertation with a
new finding that is cited could be pioneering.
I was described by Mike Slocombe, who runs the Urban75.net forum as the ‘deeply irritating,
puffed up, Jonathan Bishop.’
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In 2010, the profile of me on jonathanbishop.com was:
You have reached the Official Website of Jonathan Bishop. I am an information technology
executive, writer and researcher. I am an IT polymath, in that I have a number of degrees and
publications in a number of diverse areas relating to the study of multimedia and information
systems.
I make it my purpose to seek out new ways to make society fairer through application of
knowledge in the fields of information technology, the arts, law and sciences. I have a
number of specific and competences as a result of doing so.
My website serves first and foremost to help people form an accurate 'truth' about me,
through providing access to nearly everything I have written or communicated in durable
form since gaining my first degree in 2002. The different sections serve the following
purposes in order to show how my different beliefs have changed over time:
My weblog and blog aim to reconcile my personal beliefs with all the others.
My letters and op-eds aim to create debate in the public sphere around these discussions
My notice board and policies aim to present my best reconciliation that supports my values
and beliefs while recognising and allowing others as well.
My publications aim to present a theoretical grounding of my understanding of the world,
and evidence to inform the development of my ever changing and developing set of beliefs.
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