Glass Castle Apocalypse

A visual response for my English 101 class to Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are-A Changin’. We had to select a poem or reading from the semester’s coursepack and then interpret it into some sort of visual response.

I read the poem before I went to sleep to give my sub-conscious a chance to chew on it for a while as it tends to be how I get my best ideas. Lo and behold, 4:30am rolls around and I’m woken up out of a dead sleep by a nightmare/dream about the meek inheriting the earth, which is essentially what Dylan’s song is about. My dream was significantly more violent and was placed a number of years in the future, but essentially the image below was the last remnant of the dream when I woke up. A lone anguish cry of the repressed before they revolt and tear down the glass castles of lies, greed, corruption, and manipulation.

The final version was a 19″ high x 27.5″ wide poster. The final .psd file was a few megs over 1gb (!).

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Tagged in: Design, ECUAD, Illustration, Print
Category: Personal Work

The Devji Group

The Devji Group is a group of Edmonton brothers who own seven different clothing boutiques in Edmonton. Their stores cover the gamut from high men’s and women’s fashion to classic rock tees and motocross brands over to hip hop, skate and urban culture for both genders. In summer 2006 they were looking to enhance their online presence for all seven of their clothing companies to better inform their customers as well as promote the rather diverse selection of top-quality brand names that their stores carry.

I worked in co-ordination with Zaar Marketing to create designs to accurately capture the various target markets of each clothing company and help thematically separate each store from one another. I was responsible for logo revisions for many of the stores, the design of all of the websites as well as development of xhtml-strict templates for integration with the WordPress Blogging Platform.

Project Link: Soular Clothing

Project Link: Method Streetwea

Project Link: Queue Clothing

Project Link: Sophia’s Clothing

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Tagged in: Design, Devji, Identity, Illustration, Interactive, Zaar
Category: Client Work

My Back Pages

Pardon the Dylan reference, I’m not actually going to shun all of my old work, in fact I’m going to promote it. I was digging through my archives as I was getting ready to put this site live and I found a ton of my old digital photo manipulations from quite a few years ago when I was first teaching myself photoshop. No, I don’t own most of the original photos seen in the images, but I thought it was interesting to see where I was and where I am now (and I’m sorry to anyone whose images I might’ve ripped off, I’ve learned my lesson since!).

But, and I know I’m dating myself here, digging through these images totally took me back a few years. It took me down memory lane when I still talked with Sigurd (I still owe this Flatcat alias to him) and he turned me onto the Lockjaw boys, .nu domains were free (Kiiroi!), Prate, Harsh, Token/MSchmidt, GMunk, Chapter3, and Idiocase were re-defining the web and everyone wanted to be Soopa Famous. It seems so long ago… and I feel really old all of a sudden…

Anyway, take heed that everything posted below is 5-8 years old and enjoy.

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Tagged in: Design
Category: Experiments, Personal Work

Misc. Identities

Just a small collection of some of the various identities I’ve done for various reasons over the last couple years that don’t have enough background to make their own separate posts about.

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Tagged in: Design, Identity
Category: Client Work

Foundation Poster Competition

Emily Carr had a competition for Foundation students to create/design a poster to help promote the end-of-year Foundation show.

I had been doing a lot of study on the Russian Avant-Garde when I started working on this poster and attempted to do a homage of sorts to all of the beautiful work from that era. As the poster progressed I ended up throwing a bit of a modern spin on it (hence the pink). There’s two thousand and eight of the little white squares to represent our Foundation year (class of ‘08), and each of the twenty four black squares represents in size (relatively) of the number of students from each of the twenty-four countries in our Foundation year.

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Emily Carr Cabarets

I was on the planning committee for the Emily Carr cabarets (school-sponsored fundraising events/parties) and was responsible for the design of the posters for the two major cabarets for this past school year.

The first poster was for our cabaret that happened around halloween. Some of the other members of the committee submitted drawings for the person/characters which I then re-traced in Illustrator. All typography and layout was done by me as well in Illustrator. For the second cabaret which was just before valentine’s day, I designed and conceptualized the entire poster to coincide with the 90s theme of the party.

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Tagged in: Design, ECUAD, Illustration
Category: Personal Work