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BEATS: Newcomer Youth Voice and Perspective is my undergrad project. This is a magazine by and for newcomer immigrant and refugee youth. The magazine is 8.5x11 inch and 36 pages. This was a year long project and many community members and youth got involve directly to this project. BEATS gave me an opportuntiy to play different roles such as a designer, an editor, a art director and a project manager. Though it was a very complex process with the help of Fiona Lemon (copy editor + community facilitator) and Paul Rarick (Photographer + Classmate/peer) I was able to put togather a simple magazine for the newcomer youth and the community.

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This print publication features the author Sean Labrador Y Manzano’s article called Elysium: Where are we when the wild things are?. I created this publication with hand-drawn illustrations to reflect the narrative and emotions experienced in the article. The content the author expressess are evocative, layered thoughts that taps in to the psychology of his emotions and characteristics. This inspired the art direction of this publication to be adaptations of the rorschach inkblot cards.The feature pages of reflective thoughts are printed on vellum and illustrations are created with watercolours and ink. 

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CHEAP CO. is a Print Publication project. The content (articles and images) were take from online sources. This is a class project. Through this project I learnt how to put togather a simple zine. The main focus of this project was layout design, typography and the art direction. We were responstible to work on the front and back covers of our publication. The zine is 8x10 inch and the target audience was post-secondary students who lives by themselves and figured out tricks to have a nice economical lifestyle as students.

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Welcome to My Vancouver (from an underground perspective). A guide to exploring Vancouver, compiled and printed using a variety of Adobe programs including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.

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Telling a Story with Type: Text & Display

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.

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The Zodiac Herb Garden Kit is a first semester grad project. The kit ecourages gardening newbies to get involved in the urban agriculture movement by first growing a personalized indoor herb garden.

A series of 12, each kit contains the seeds of herbs that have useful properties that are particularly affecting for people of specific star signs. For example, the kit featured here is The Libra Garden and contains Lemon Balm, Bergamot, and Thyme seeds.

Each kit contains the seeds, wood plant labels, and a booklet that provides simplified instruction on how to successfully grow the herbs from seed, as well as information about the medicinal properties of each herb and the ways you can use them.

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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 further themes of an unknown future and of the giant melting pot of ideas that comes from art and design publications.

Update: This editorial direction was chosen as one of the finalists for the competition, and was featured in the June/July issue of Applied Arts.

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This monograph was designed for a self directed project in print publication. The only requirement for this project was to create a book on a single subject of your choosing. I chose to create a retrospective of the decade between 1940 and 1950 through the personal photographs of the people who lived it, my grandparents, Daniel and Beatrice Clark. An incredibly tumultuous decade historically and personally for the Clarks, they were married in 1943, separated by war from 1944 through to 1946, reunited at the end of that year, and finally able to start life as a married couple in 1947. The book matches photographs from the personal albums of Bea Clark with historical text and quotes from the decade.