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Body Talk is a collaboration grad project between myself and a fellow communication design student, Andrea Husky. Both from personal experience and from talking to our peers over the years that Vancouver has a bit of a sociability problem. Through initial secondary research our suspicions turned out to be true and we discovered that Vancouver is perceived as a cold and unfriendly city, both by locals and outsiders. This made us sad so we set out to find a way to approach this situation.

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Typographic poster inspired by old wood-type posters, featuring the lyrics of the song Ordinary People by John Legend. 

17 x 54

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Word on the Street Festival is held annual in major cities of Canada, celebrating literature and gathering enthusiasts every year. This fictitious identity plays on the idea of duality between the fun and imagination of stories, as well as the acknowledgement of history and depth behind novels and books. 

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Here is There is Here is a series of four drawings specifically constructed for display at the Aberdeen Canada Line Station in Richmond, BC. Commissioned by the City of Richmond Public Art Program for the No. 3 Road Columns Project, the works collapse images from around the station with references to Jakarta, Indonesia, exploring the ways that a place can be simultaneously familiar and foreign.

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The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) currently has an established identity. HHow can the identity and branding of a film festival be re-conceptualized in terms of deviating from traditional aesthetics and signifiers that connote a straight forward presence of the film industry?

Although this project did not have any real practical application or implementation it does not mean the approach was not validated. On the contrary it proved a solid excersize in branding a film festival identity.

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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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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 family.

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An information graphic encouraging the purchase of local food and beverage. It aimed to create a fun, playful, friendly poster or interactive document that rewarded its users instead of berating them for their food habits. It used positive language and bright, pleasant colours to achieve this, and was distributed in whimsical homemade packages. It was meant to be widely and freely distributed (on websites such as getlocal and eatlocal.org)

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A take on the state of popular culture, this pop-up book followed the tweets of Sarah Silverman on the topic of balls. It aimed to present the instant, ephemeral world of Twitter in the world of print, using one of the most time-consuming and precise methods of bookmaking - the pop-up book. It used dainty, feminine imagery ironically to present Silverman's vulgar, crude tweets.

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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.