What Design Projects and Artwork Are Featured on Mattgyver?

Mattgyver.com is a portfolio site for graphic design tutorials, projects, and resources. The featured work spans a Venetian bridge poster series sold as prints, commissioned playing card decks (including LEGO-themed sets and a Cryptids deck), a Ranger Naturalist typeface poster and samples, a 12-page Starfield advanced reactor assembly technical manual, and a long tail of one-off designs, logos, and illustration work. The site also hosts Illustrator and design tutorials and a weekly Twitch stream. If you're here to browse or buy finished artwork, the project sections below are what you want; if you're here to learn technique, the tutorials and stream are the relevant parts.

Bridges of the Grand Canal: Poster Series and Prints

This is the most commercially framed project on the page. The series is a gallery of Venetian bridges drawn by hand, described on the site as running "from Rialto's crown to Calatrava's gleam," with materials referenced as timber, Istrian stone, glass, and steel. The page presents it as a cohesive set of posters and offers two actions: view the series and buy prints.

What this means in practice:

• If you want the artwork on a wall, the print purchase path is the direct route — the series page is the entry point.
• If you want to see the full set before deciding, use the series view first; the page treats the bridges as a themed collection rather than isolated pieces.
• The page does not list print sizes, paper stock, pricing, or shipping terms, so those details have to come from the series/print page itself rather than from the homepage description.

Commissioned Playing Card Decks

A cluster of the featured work is playing card deck design done on commission. The page names these decks:

The LEGO Castle deck is surfaced three times in the recent-work block, which signals it as a flagship commission. For anyone evaluating the designer's range, these decks are the clearest evidence of full deck design — card faces, backs, and themed illustration systems — as opposed to single posters.

Ranger Naturalist Typeface Poster and Samples

The Ranger Naturalist project appears as both a typeface poster and a set of typeface samples, each viewable at full size. This is the typography-focused entry in the portfolio: a specimen-style poster plus sample images showing the face in use.

If you're a designer checking whether the typeface suits a project, the samples are the more useful artifact — they show letterforms in context rather than as a display piece. The page doesn't state licensing or download terms for the typeface, so treat the poster and samples as showcase material unless the typeface page says otherwise.

Starfield Technical Manual

A 12-page Starfield advanced reactor assembly technical manual is featured with a "Read it" link. This is a worldbuilding/document-design piece: a fictional technical document rendered as a real manual. It's the best example on the site of long-form layout and information design, and it pairs naturally with the site's data visualization and Illustrator tutorial content.

Other One-Off Designs and Illustration Work

Beyond the named projects, the page points to an "exhaustive collection of one-off designs, logos, projects, and illustration work" on the designer's Instagram and Dribbble. The homepage itself shows a grid of additional pieces (many labeled only "View fullsize") without titles, so the social profiles are the place to see the complete archive with context.

Tutorials and Live Streams Alongside the Portfolio

The site isn't only a gallery. It lists Illustrator and design tutorials, including:

• Data Visualization in Illustrator — process notes plus links to resources and public data sets
• Illustrator 3D Tools & Tips
• Synthwave Pixel Art Skyline
• Playing Card Deck Design Tips
• Creating Pop Art Portraits in Illustrator

There's also a weekly stream at Twitch.tv/MattgyverTV, Saturdays and Sundays 7–10am East Coast time, run in a tutorial style covering techniques, experimentation, and the business side of design, with chat critique encouraged.

How to Choose Where to Start

• Buying or browsing finished art: start with the Bridges of the Grand Canal series, then the playing card decks.
• Judging typography work: go to the Ranger Naturalist poster and samples.
• Seeing layout and document design: read the Starfield manual.
• Seeing the full body of work: use the Instagram and Dribbble links, since the homepage grid is only a selection.
• Learning the methods behind the work: the tutorial list and the weekend stream cover the same techniques shown in the projects.

One caveat worth stating plainly: the homepage describes the projects and where to find them, but it doesn't publish prices, print specifications, typeface licensing, or stream archives. Those specifics need to be confirmed on the linked series, print, and platform pages.