Jim Burke is a Visual Designer, Illustrator, and Writer living in the Bay Area, California.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Associate Creative Director Google Developer Studios (via ASG), 2019–2025
Visual Designer / Art Direction Action, 2023–present
Senior Graphic Designer Noggin, 2016–2019
Senior Graphic Designer Make Magazine, 2013–2016
Graphic Designer Red Frog Events, 2012–2013
Founder Power Racing Series, 2009–2021
Director at Large Pumping Station One, 2009–2011
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Google I/O Conference
What happens when a studio needs a workflow, but only has a month to implement it?
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Google Cloud
Hundreds of icons, thousands of user stories?
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Noggin
They need a new logo, but what they found was a whole new identity.
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Action
When a client wants to take their brand to the next level, they had to look to the stars.
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Google Developer Studios
Operating a team within a team, we had the biggest challenge to produce and animate dozens of shows.
Design by Psychology
Design by Psychology
Google’s Diagram Solution Architecture is a series of guidelines, icons, and design standards that makes complex software and hardware systems easily understandable from a visual standpoint. It is the backbone of how teams at Google communicate their architecture structures to both internal teams and external clients/customers.
What happens when you want to have that information conveyed online to an audience that consumes 72% of your content via a cellphone? I used my background in behavioral psychology to create a new visual standard that could be more legible, equitable, and accessible to the masses.
Google I/O 2023 : the adaptable online social media campaign
5 months to showtime, and your team is tasked to create an adaptable, scalable social media campaign that can be handed over to a social media team that wishes to create assets during the livestream announcements in real time, what do you do when pixel perfection is the only way you know?
If you’re me, you build a sticker system, connecting with a truly wide range of all-encompassing backgrounds, icons, colorways that can be easily assembled as the public reacts from moment to moment.