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Swan Lake Booklet
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This project was made as an exploration of expressive typography in the storytelling of a traditional folktale. Choosing Anthea Bell’s narrative of the clasical ballet play Swan Lake, I designed the pages of this booklet to echo the tone of the story in notes of romanticism, the delicate voices of the swans and the poetic nature of the play. The typefaces used for these expressions were Adobe Caslon, Scala Sans and Electra. Working within limitations such as no use of imagery/illustrations, the project represents a challenge to rely on typographic expression alone to convey action and emotion.
Roma/Internet Map Book
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The setup for this project was to interpret two historical events, a global and a personal one. The re-imagination of a teenager's blurred memory of Rome and the advent of the Internet and its digital era resulted in a double-sided map reproduction of a traditional map of Rome, contrasted against a digital version on the other side. A clash between the traditional and the digital, this project speaks about fragmentation between the reality of our experiences and the virtual reality that we live by in today's era. Typographical experimentation and medium interplay were used to enhance the double-map's philosophy.
Asia Pacific Applied Arts Forum
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The Asia Pacific Applied Arts and Creative Industries Forum (APAAF) is a non-profit educational project organized by students and faculty of Emily Carr University of Art and Design and the Canadian Society for Asian Arts both located in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
A key issue, central to late twenty first century applied art practices, is the dynamicrelationship between traditional approaches and global trends in craft and design. TheAsia Pacific Applied Arts and Creative Industries Forum provides views of contemporary craft and design from APEC economies and other participating Asia and Pacific countries.
Malaysia/Canada Indigenous Communities Applied Arts Exhibition
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In Spring and Fall of 2011, co-curators; Associate Professor Salmah Abu Mansor, scholar and Senior Research Fellow-Institute of Ethnic Studies, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia and Sam Carter, Professor Emeritus-Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada selected applied arts from indigenous communities across Malaysia and Canada.
Malaysia/Canada Indigenous Communities Applied Arts Exhibition
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In Spring and Fall of 2011, co-curators; Associate Professor Salmah Abu Mansor, scholar and Senior Research Fellow-Institute of Ethnic Studies, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia and Sam Carter, Professor Emeritus-Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada selected applied arts from indigenous communities across Malaysia and Canada.
Alcuin Awards Poster
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As promotion for the 2011 Alcuin awards, the theme of book design had to be translated into two versions of a poster. One made for print and one optimized for an iphone.
Alcuin Awards Poster
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This poster was created for the 29th annual Alcuin Awards, a program that recognizes excellence in Canadian book design. Created in my Advanced Typography course, it was my intention to reflect a more traditional side of book design. The poster was inspired by bookplates, which are also known by their Latin name ex libris, translating to "from the books." As an extra challenge, although the piece was welcome to have subtle image elements, it was required to focus primarily on the use of typography.
Mozilla Foundation – Learning, Freedom and the Web
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I was one of a team of Emily Carr faculty and students who rose to the challenge, investigating different technology options for creating an ebook that would reflect Mozilla's core principles. That meant building an ebook that could work on iPads and Android tablets, desktop computers and smartphones, and that could be distributed for free. A simple PDF was one option, but it didn't take advantage of the navigation and multimedia opportunities a tablet could provide.
BRAVADO Magazine — High gloss pixels
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In the Fall Semester of 2011, I redesigned the website for BRAVADO Magazine and performed a full Wordpress implementation for Evan Goodfellow and his staff. The design of the website involved concept development, paper-prototyping, development of HTML, CSS, jQuery, and PHP for Wordpress implementation. The theme BRAVADO now runs on is custom to suit their content. Much thanks to Evan and the crew at BRAVADO.
You can checkout the live site here:
