work

  • 2013

    Project | Vancouver Coastal Health approached Emily Carr University as a community partner to aid in designing a behaviour change campaign for Resident Care Aides at their extended care facilities.

    Featured | Current, Spring 2013, Health Design Lab Website, Emerging Spaces in Design Forum, 2013, 2013 Medicina Conference

    Overview | In 2010, ceiling lift equipment was installed over almost every bed, at every residential care...

  • 2012

    In Partnership with | Vancouver Coastal Health

    Featured | Design Degree, Emily Carr University, Woo! Emily Carr's student publication

    Project | A nurse handoff refers to any situation where information is being passed from one caregiver to another. It can be between individuals, teams, or departments, and can happen at different times throughout the day; that is, the situations and the people involved are varied....

  • 2012

    Project | Create two PSAs concerning the topic of 'Washing your hands'. One PSA should be directed to youth while the other directed toward an adult audience.

    Featured | Art-on-Transit II: My work was selected from over 200 entries to be publicly displayed on Translinks fleet from January 2012—January 2014

    Approach | Each PSA focuses on two different target audiences: Young Adult (18-28) & Adult (29 & up...

  • 2012

    Project | A complex typography project highlighting a short story, The Hunger Artist, written by Franz Kafka. The objective was to create a large-sized, multi-page folio by combining both narrative text and expressive display type to tell a story.

    Approach |  After my initial research I decided to use three different typefaces. Adobe Jenson (body copy), Eames Century Modern (sub-titles), and Akzidenz Grotesque (Bold titles...

  • 2012

    Project | Create a new, contemporary brand identity for the city of Vancouver, using typography as the primary tool. The idea is not to simply up-grade Vancouver’s current graphic identify—its logo and associated branding materials. Instead, rethink the way Vancouver presents itself to the world. Create a fresh, new, cohesive brand aesthetic for Vancouver—a visual representation, in typographic form, of the city as you see it: either as it is now, or as you would like...

  • 2012

    Project | A kinetic typography project. Create a 30 second to minute long video use typography in an expressive manner. The theme of the project is entirely up to you.

    Approach | I decided to take the audience on a 3D type adventure through  one of my favourite movies, 'Hedwig & the Angry Inch'. I hope you enjoy my take on Midnight Radio and check out the movie if you haven't seen it.

    Music by John Cameron Mitchell
    Song...

  • 2012

    Project | In a group of three or four create, install, and document a temporary large-scale typographic phrase of your choosing. The selection of text, location, and material(s) are three variable elements that will serve to comunicate and enforce your message, and should be chosen carefully.

    Approach | Our group decided to shoot a video outside Emily Carr University in the designated smoking area to poke fun at smoking. Our phrase was...

  • 2011

    Project | Researching in study groups of 3, but designing independently, choose one of the following publications: Design Degree or Woo! Emily Carr's student publication, and output to two different media. Consider carefully how you will represent the experience of reading/interaction consistently from one media toanother. But also use each media to its fullest potential.What does each media do well and how can it make use of that without seeming to be a different...

  • 2011

    Project | Creat a twelve-page type specimen book, highlighting a series of three historically-important typefaces, from different historical periods in type design. The specimen must provide key historical information about these faces, and present each font in a historically appropriate manner, reflecting the way the type would have been used when it was first designed.

    Approach | I selected three unique typefaces from three different periods....

  • 2011

    Project | In a group of two to three people photograph, art direct, and design your own Vanity Fair editorial. Choose either between a rising musician, actor, or model as your protagonist within the local Vancouver scene. You must create an editorial piece that includes a cover, three to four editorials shots, and six to seven journalistic shots.

    Approach | Our group decided to highlight an artist, as a rising musician making headlines in...