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Hello! My name is John “The Wingless” Burnett, an award-winning
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in the video game and entertainment Industry for nearly twenty years.
This site is a collection of my personal work, experiments, insights and general tom-foolery.
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Oh, and I run a 1-on-1 UI UX Design mentorship program, too.
MY BEST PERSONAL WORK
over 35 personal projects from over 2 decades of creativity
I ALSO BLOG
I love writing about all kinds of subjects. Gaming, UX Design, Art, Music, Stories… if you like a TED-talk’s worth of insight on some random nonsense, this is your one-stop shop. Here are some of my latest musings…
10 questions a UI UX Design Art Director asks before hiring you (from an Art Director)
Terrified of making a UI UX Design portfolio without any guidance? What if you had the inside track from somebody who’s seen 100s?
How to make the jump from vanilla / corporate UI UX Design to video game UI UX Design
Sick and tired of doing regular corporate UI UX Design? Come over to this side of the mirror and learn game design!
How to break into the video game industry through UI UX Design – Frequently Asked Questions
UI UX Designers, cast off your boring office jobs and become a gaming legend!
The 6 Most Obvious UI / UX mistakes you’re making on your project
STOP RIGHT THERE! You’re messing up your game, app, portfolio, whatever, and you don’t even know it!
How to learn video game User Interface Art and User Experience Design on your own in the Covid19 age
Trying to switch careers or get into the game industry during a global pandemic?
The top 10 best video game soundtracks of 2010-2020 that you don’t know about
Here are some of the best game soundtracks of the decade that you DON’T KNOW ABOUT!
...AND I ALSO MENTOR
I run a 1-on-1 mentorship program called The UX Spacecamp that teaches you User Interface Art and User Experience Design for apps and games. Register now and launch your career!
A LITTLE ABOUT ME
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Hello, again! My name is John “The Wingless” Burnett, and this is my non-professional portfolio. Basically, all the stuff I do outside of my work as a video game artist.
Professionally, I am a 20-year veteran video game User Interface Artist (UI Artist), User Experience Designer (UX Designer) and Art Director. I have been an in-house artist for Midway Games, Electronic Arts, id Software. I have also been the UI / UX Director at Glu Mobile.
I’ve worked on everything from two Call of Duty’s to Rage to The Saboteur to all manner of obscura I wouldn’t even know how to describe.
These days I’m more or less an Art Mercenary and have worked with companies like Activision, Microsoft and Google – as well as more Indies and Startups than I can count! I also run a mentorship program that helps people break into the Industry as UI / UX designers.
I started this site in early 2000 while I was in college and have been making art, music, acting, writing, photography, coding, design… really everything ever since. Feel free to explore, I’m always expanding and building around here (when I’m not swamped being a video game developer!). Thank you so much for visiting, think about buying me lunch, and I look forward to inspiring you.
...AND I LOVE FANMAIL
Really, drop me a line and let me know what you think about the place. Gushing love-letters only, please.