Pinup Illustration

This originally started as a design for a Design With Image and Time project. We were matched up with partners and were told to design a tattoo for our partner. The instructor gave us a number of evaluative research methods to try and drill to the emotional core of our partners so that we could create the most representative tattoo for our partners.

I ended up being partnered with my very dear and beautiful friend Blair who is very much a girly girl that has a strong art-nerd side running through her. I immediately thought of a Gil Elvgren pinup picture for her. One of the things I’ve always liked about Elvgren’s pinup pictures is that they’re always extremely beautiful women, obviously, but when you get into the image a little bit more they always have some sort of dorkiness to them. I thought that that was almost the epitome of Blair. After bouncing the idea off of her I found out that she had a love of pinup girls and had actually been thinking about getting a tattoo eventually of a pinup girl. So it was a resounding success.

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Tagged in: ECUAD, Illustration
Category: Personal Work

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

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An illustration experiment I created for the Emily Carr viewbook.

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Tagged in: Illustration
Category: Experiments, Personal Work

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