 Silkscreen assignment focused on colour mixing and transparency. Triangles are hand cut and arranged as a grid for exposure, and printed twice in different colours. Layers are superimposed to show effective technical skill in colour mixing and transparency.
Branding group project for Typography III class. We were given a science fiction comic book and entertainment festival held at the Los Angeles Convention Center to brand and design. We had to incorporate fundraising for a charity through the event activities, and design the festival and brand under the themes of community and inclusion. We went the extra mile and decided to make the event interactive through an app with a virtual map with GPS tracking, and chipped wristbands. A key focus of the project was to avoid 'rubber stamping' and use each design opportunity in the brand to suit its space experientially, and uniquely. We used a variety of Adobe programs for the designs. For this challenging Time Based Design project called Design for Good, my focus is to effectively tell a story using kinetic typography and a good script. Prior to this project, I had no knowledge of script writing, character development, or animating typography. The project was to create a short motion design that interests people to participate in a not-for-profit humanitarian cause. I chose to design this project completely from scratch, with no found sound or imagery, and to limit it to kinetic typography. The greatest challenge was to strike a balance between the sober reality of homelessness, and an optimistic, empowering outlook that moves the viewer to answer the call-to-action. I intentionally refrained from including facts and statistics, and chose to design an emotional appeal. After two years of extensively working on design and advertising, this is my simplest, and most challenging project yet. I used Adobe After Effects, and Premiere Pro.
Cookbook for Typograhy III Class. This cookbook is designed for busy families with young children, meant as a practical counter-top every day reference. It's full of cheeky nostalgia, packed with features that can be personalized. It was designed to be kept as an heirloom, rather than getting tossed in the donations pile. Designed with Adobe Indesign, Illustratos, and Lightroom.
Digital photographs of Fish Creek Provincial Park in Calgary, Alberta, taken with a Canon 5D Mark III and processed in Adobe Lightroom.
 Object Design project to create a life-size 3D model from an object. I measured the individual components with a digital calliper, using Rhinoceros to design the model.
30 second social media video I created (shot and edited) for Time Based Design, using Canon 5D Mark IV with a variety of lenses, Adobe After Effects, Light Room, and Premiere Pro. See it live here and here. The purpose of this video is to tell a story for social media. As an experiment, it was posted to Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube, with the appropriate marketing tools applied, it did not do well on instagram, it did well on Facebook with 3.6K views in the first few days, but the most effective outlet was YouTube with 18K views in the first 2 days.
 Object Design assignment to plan a repeating surface design using Rhino. My aim was to make a simple repeating pattern in which the grid was not obvious. See the full process here.
   This is a story for my Time Based Design course. I designed these cinemagraphs based on my family's transformation during the electronic fasting method/therapy outlined in this book. Watch this short video of Dr. Victoria Dunckley talk about it.
These are some sample pages of my zine called Laundromat, which I now have printed in several different colours. This zine is the first part of an ongoing personal project exploring how our physical environment/space is designed and physically experienced in my society, shot through an ideological and socio-economic lens.
I use traditional analog film photography, develop the film in my darkroom, manually scan, and digitally post-process and design using adobe software. To purchase a copy, visit my shop page on this website. Typography II final project, my first long document as an owner's manual for a Dyson vacuum cleaner designed and compiled using Adobe InDesign.
Object Design Fundamentals final project, a kinetic 3D paper craft object made using Rhino. I chose the basic character from the video game Minecraft, and designed its 3D version from a picture. I printed and manually cut the model out of paper prints, from which I made adjustments for my final model, then laser printed and constructed. It is fully kinetic, stands upright in standing and walking positions.
Digital photographs taken with Canon 5D Mark IV, processed with Adobe LightRoom.
Our friends basically have an old school house and a post office in their backyard in the badlands! During our visit we had a look inside and got a good history lesson of the ranch lands, first settlers of this valley, and the Blackfoot people who helped them, got to see some old photos that belong to the descendants, most of their photographs have been donated to the Glenbow now. The school house was super cute, with a coat room, and a massive stove in the basement, you can see the coal room right beside it, with coal still inside. On our hike we saw a couple of small rail lines that connected to Saskatoon and Calgary. The post office was still in use til the 70s! My kids enjoyed the old school swing in the school yard until one got 'bonked' in the head. This is in the Rosebud Valley, or rather, by the river of many roses, Akokiniskway.  Communicaitons 2 poster design for the musical The Louder We Get in the style of postmodernism, created using Photoshop and InDesign, with a mix of altered found images and stock images.
Motion Graphics assignment to create a looping animated GIF,
​using Adobe After Effects and Illustrator.
3D object design assignment using downloaded 3D objects to mashup new hybrid objects. See the full assignment here.
Laundromat zine I created using Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, from film photographs, size 5.5 by 8.5 inches.
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