A hand-made zine which takes a typographical approach to human rights issues and specifically war, using collage and hand-drawn type. I took a "playful" approach to the heavy concept of war, to ridicule and at the same time draw attention to its direct victims, children.
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2009A concert poster series to promote Canadian composer, Christos Hatzis. His music, to me, has a certain darkness accompanied with hope, which I have tried to incorporate in these posters.
In The Fire of Conflict:
....I can’t see, it’s dark
I see a flame spark
I can’t think. All I hear is dogs barking
I can’t take the conflict.
I can’t take the violence.
I can’t take this blasphemy.
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2009Promotional card made for my magazine called Battle of the Beasts. The magazine showcases the new and up-coming designers who create fresh and original concepts that carry strong and affective graphics.
For my first issue I looked into M/A/S/H Design, as well as Newwork magazine.
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2009Typographical manifesto using Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip "Thou Shalt always Kill" song lyrics as the content.I played around with contrast, size, black & white space as well as repetition to design the piece.
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2009Stop-motion animation using typography to visually narrate a passage from the movie "Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain", which has inspired the whole look of the video.This project was a collaboration with Kateryna Yanova and Pinar Undeger.
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2009A group project focusing on re-branding of BC Civil Liberties Association, who were our client. Using cyan and black as our two main colors, we represented freedom and liberty in a contemporary manner that adds professionalism and determination to the look of the BCCLA brand identity.
On this project I collabrated with Sophia Meyer, Kateryna Yanova, Sara Ahn & Anna Bohn.
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2009Take A Life/ Give a Life, is my Fall semester grad project which focuses on how we have become desensitized to caring about human rights issues as a result of constant and repetitive media coverage:
As soon as I turn on the news, I see/read/ hear nothing but war, war, war: "A suicide bomber killed this many people", "a bomb exploded there...hundreds of civilians dead." And then, soon enough, I either change the channel or go about my own business as if what I had just watched did not...
