Welcome to the website for Riley Bathurst Design.

A place for me to show-off what I have done. I’m a bit of a Do It Yourselfer in the kiwi way, working with clients from large to small, creating logos to TV shows.

I’m always up for a challenge and often available to create something for you, your company or your project and I may have already created something that will inspired you, or I may be about to.

Hailing from New Zealand, traveling about the world physically and digitally. I am a geek of design, a lover of action sports and doing my best to live the dream of creating work that I like. This seems to have worked out so far and I’m ready for upcoming opportunities.

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  • Clients

    I have worked with the likes of

  • Resume

    Riley Bathurst Design has been operating since February 2009

    I have worked for

  • Reference

    the Lost Duck

    Riley Bathurst worked as a graphic designer for Yellow Duck Publications, for the 2009-2010 winter seasonin 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 recomending Riley and I wish him every success for the future.

    Sincerely,

    Peter Buchholz

    Publisher Yellow Duck Publications

    thelostduck.ca

  • Tools I Use

    • Adobe Premiere Pro

    • Premiere Pro

      I use Premiere for video editing, I can do Final Cut 7 as well, but the integration of all the other Adobe products means better graphics, motion or still to enhance the overall video and give you a full rounded product.

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    • WordPress

      My CMS (Content Management System) of choice for making websites, It’s easy for anyone to look at the back end and thats what counts for many of my clients so I want to use what works for them. You don’t need to learn computer code, you need to do what you do and have an easy system to work so here it is. Oh and it’s free.

    • ps

    • Photoshop

      The big beast in this game, I’ve been using a few versions now and it may not be perfect but I know my way around a few parts of the program and with a tablet to draw on I can create a whole range of different things whether they have anything to do with a photo or not.

    • Adobe Illustrator

    • Illustrator

      I like Illustrator for working with lines that can scale any size, it’s great for logos, text and layouts. It’s fast, powerful and pretty much the other half to Photoshop for me.

    • ae

    • After Effects

      This is pretty much like Photoshop for video, it makes all that extra stuff in the videos, the motion graphics or the cleaning up of a logo, everything to make your video shine.

    • Adobe InDesign

    • InDesign

      Laying out big documents or lots of text or setting up templates for you that are easy and fast, I know my way around InDesign and we can create something to get your message out in it together.

Graphic Design

This is where my portfolio starts and the base of my work. Since studying I have explored a number of other areas but I always come back to the base rules, styles and inspiration of layouts, colours and other fundamentals of graphic design.

moped event poster
military propaganda style poster
Print
 

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poster design
Skate Nationals 2012 poster
minimal white action sports poster

Web

Learning to design for the web has been one of the more challenging experiences I have had as a design, incorporating the artistic side of the creation with the structure of code, a rapidly and ever changing space that is viewed differently from person to person gives more than my share of headaches but I feel it has lead me to design websites far better with an understanding of how they work.

iMac computer
vp site design

The Vintage Peddler

We looked to develop a site with vintage appeal for a very tangible product in a modern web with textures and font choices. I worked on design with Dodat on development.

thevintagepeddler.co.nz
iMac computer
yeboi website design

Yeboi Apparel

The second version of the Yeboi Apparel as been stripped back to a minimal design and colour scheme to let the images of the shine through and grab the attention.

Yeboi.co.nz
iMac computer
film inc media site design

Film Inc Media

For the project that I have been working on with film maker Liam Hall we needed a base for the videos we were creating and a simple interface for spinning through a number of recent videos while still holding a minimal interface.

filmincmedia.com
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Photography

My photography started with my action sport, at the same time I was discovering design I was also moving into these dynamic sports more about creating a moment than getting points on the board. That and the fact I always have something in my hands and a camera works really well for that.

Digital Magazines

In the intersection between photography and graphic design I have worked on a number of flip books, journals and mini magazines. I like the gap between the printed paper and the digital web and what each can do but this has allowed me to bring them closer together for certain projects.

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Video

Fails

During the 2012 CHILL Big Mountain series I ended up with a lot of footage that I really liked but didn’t fit with in the edits so I made this extra edit for the Ice Film Fest. The rest of the CHILL series 2012 is here.

CHILL

MX Nationals

I covered the first round of the 2012 NZ Moto X Nationals for the Airtime TV show, working with the riders to bring one day of riding into a four minute piece about the lifestyle as well as some petrol head hooning. All of my Airtime eps are here.

U TV

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Camperventure

For one of the Snow Show TV shows I filmed and edited during the 2012 winter I travelled from Tekapo to Wanaka with two of New Zealand’s best snowboarders, Will Jackways & Abby Lockhart, as well as their dog and documented the travels along the way, the show is about the lifestyle of riding as much as the tricks. All of my Snow Show eps are here.

the Snow Show

Macpac Ads

Working with Macpac for the Christmas 2012 Find Your Summer Adventure campaign we shot a couple of short TV ad’s for the New Zealand and Australian market, all of the shots were used along side photography to create a feeling of the kiwi summer and how the Macpac crew like to experience the outdoors.

Macpac

George Pengelly 2011

The fast up and coming big mountain skier in New Zealand needed an edit with only a few extra days filming most of the content for this video came from event footage we had worked on during the 2011 season.

CHILL Series 2012

Covering the CHILL Series, big mountain free ski events for the 2011 & 2012 season I have created a number of videos to span the month of events, as I work with CHILL to build a video brand for the event we have worked on title animations and more edits to bring together everything that the events have to offer. The full CHILL Series is here.

CHILL

The Clubbies

During the 2011 winter, I produced a series of snowboarding videos The Clubbies about the lifestyle and riding that goes on in a number of small and obscure ski fields in the South Island of New Zealand, great places with very interesting stories and some awesome snow.

The Clubbies

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#preseason

Last weekend we managed to scamper on up in to the hills, not the craziest of all starts to the season but getting days and a wee article in May is a way to start. Check the full thing at the NZsnowboard.com post. Preseason_0041 700

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