work

  • 2011

    This self-directed project served as an exploration of editorial design using three articles about Sofia Coppola's films, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette and Lost in Translation.

  • 2011

    The Woo is a student publication that represents and shares the work produced in Emily Carr University by students and faculty, as well as fostering its social community. It is published quarterly and in a range of different formats and themes everytime to cover the various mediums present at the institution. As part of the design and editorial team, I am in charge of creating Woo’s branding, layout, visual vocabulary and typographic design of each issue, as well as considering...

  • 2011

    Current is Emily Carr University's academic journal with the intent of demystifying the design process. The journal is designed, edited, produced and marketed by undergraduates in communication design with article contributions from students in both the graduate and undergraduate programs, alumni and faculty. As an Art Director, I was in charge of the design and production of the second issue of Current, putting special emphasis on creating a visual...

  • 2011

    First grad thesis project for my Communication Design degree at Emily Carr. My Unborn Daughter is a hybrid novel written by Jesus Ambriz. This project was aimed to create a hybrid novel that innovated and challenged the conventions of print design in literature.

  • 2010

    The setup for this project was to interpret two historical events, a global and a personal one. The re-imagination of a teenager's blurred memory of Rome and the advent of the Internet and its digital era resulted in a double-sided map reproduction of a traditional map of Rome, contrasted against a digital version on the other side. A clash between the traditional and the digital, this project speaks about fragmentation between the reality of our experiences and the virtual reality that we...

  • 2010

    This project was made as an exploration of expressive typography in the storytelling of a traditional folktale. Choosing Anthea Bell’s narrative of the clasical ballet play Swan Lake, I designed the pages of this booklet to echo the tone of the story in notes of romanticism, the delicate voices of the swans and the poetic nature of the play. The typefaces used for these expressions were Adobe Caslon, Scala Sans and Electra. Working within limitations such as no use of imagery/illustrations,...

  • 2009

    Requirement: Use Bauer Bodoni, Akzidenz Grotesk and Aldus to do a contemporary piece that talks about Typography.

    Quoted is Ellen Lupton on her book, "Thinking With Type."

  • 2009

    Requirement: Use water as your discourse.

    Photomanipulation + typography.

    Text is meant to be readable in actual size.