Pixi Magazine is a gaming magazine targeted towards women that aims to include them in the sometimes exclusive technology community. It uses bright and colourful visual language reminiscent of 8bit video games. The goal of Pixi is to make gaming and technology interesting and credible to female readers, and young professionals in general. View the iPad prototype here.
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For one of their specially designed issues, Applied Arts has asked five Canadian Art and Design schools to send in their best student work. The winning designer will be asked to create 30 pages of editorial layouts. Up to ten other top students will be featured in the magazine.
I wanted to take Applied Arts in a more whimsical direction than they typically go in, and chose to feature the illustrations of Andres Guzman to...
This identity package was designed for Samantha Lefort's Generation Green winner, Local Choice. Local Choice rates restaurants according to their use of local, seasonal, low carbon, organic and certified produce, as well as their affordability, healthiness and labour practices. It has now been incorporated into Anthony Nicalo's Foodtree.
It's Like That, y'all. I designed this 180 page hardcover anthology of Hip Hop writings in honour of the music and culture I grew up admiring. The book was sectioned into different aspects of hip hop life and culture, starting with its history and moving through its various effects on popular culture (women in hip hop, violence in hip hop, art and hip hop, etc).
The binding method is called Ethiopian Coptic, and it is done in single page signatures, adding to the weight of the...
Do objects remember? Or are they wrapped in the memories we bring to them, like layers of stories folded around a picture, a voice, or a worn-out shoe? In this exhibit, created to complement ひろしま hiroshima by Ishiuchi Miyako, opening in The Audain Gallery on October 13, visitors are invited to experience selected objects and media from MOA’s worldwide collection. Some are ancient, some are new. Some are inscribed with their histories, while others are uprooted – their origins,...
Since 1981 the Alcuin Society has sponsored the only national competition for book design in Canada. This year it was hosted by the Emily Carr University and students were asked to create posters for the event. For this piece I wanted to use a simple but eye-catching typographic treatment that conveyed information in a dramatic way. Thanks to MacLeod's for allowing photography of their bookstore.
Motion graphics piece using kinetic typography and jointed puppets.
Music credit: Mr.Roboto by Styx
A group project between myself, Sarah Kozlowski, and Jill Southern, "Valdivia 1960" presents the biographical story of my mother surviving the most powerful earthquake to date (Valdivia's 9.5 on the Richter scale in 1960). The story was incorporated with imagery from Sarah Kozlowski's own story: her grandmother teaching her to knit. We created a graphically simple book, mixing classic 1960s elements with contemporary typography, and visually representing ideas of loss, redemption, and...
This three volume set of books was made using saddle stitch techniques, quarter leather bind, and letterpress for titles. It was made to serve as a one of a kind collector's book containing poetry with themes of loss, pilgrimage, and loneliness, following the lives of men, women, and children who went in search for gold during the 1870s. It was individually typed and featured watercolour paintings.
This book was intended to be shown as a potentially publishable children's book. It revolves around the story of Linus, a grumpy hedgehog who has no friends and feels as though he is too important and different for the everyday pleasures of life.
