USER INTERFACE DESIGN: “FA4U”

FA4U (Fine Arts For You) is a prototype mobile application built for York University’s Fine Arts Community developed and designed in a group setting with three of my colleagues in the YSDN program. Built over a three month period, we developed a web-based application that could be accessed on any smartphone, but… View full project

KINETIC TYPOGRAPHY: My Most Intimate Affair

A “Type in Motion” project (with prof. Paul Sych) this short kinetic typography piece reflects a very intimate part of my life, and an experience many strangers can relate to. Completed in a two week period using After Effects and Premiere Pro. For this project I challenged myself to… View full project

THE JERRY SPRINGER CONNECTION (An Infographic)

Infographics are quickly becoming a consumable design in todays culture; visualizing data helps to simplify complicated relationships and networks. I chose to study the quirky and unorthodox relationships as seen on the Jerry Springer show. After viewing a weeks worth of episodes I narrowed my infographic down… View full project

EXPRESSIVE TYPOGRAPHY

COXCOMB RED is a visual response to a Joe Beat’s remix of the song Coxcomb Red (listen here) The song is performed with haunting vocals, alliterative lyrics and a lonely bass line that will leave you with chills. I tried to reflect… View full project

HEADLINE TYPOGRAPHY

CONSUMER was done as a personal project in response to the 2009 Toronto Garbage (service) Strike. It was my first summer living in this gorgeous city, and I was baffled at how quickly Toronto’s beauty succumbed to the massive piles of litter that lined most of its’… View full project

BOOK TRAILER: Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco

View the making of ‘Rhinoceros’ here.

Rhinoceros, by Eugene Ionesco is an intellectually stimulating play/ novel with philosophical undertones that belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd collection. Written in 1959 the play explores the foundations of the human psyche and the individualistic will to conform.

This book trailer… View full project

FESTIVAL BRANDING

THE COURAGE BROTHERS ANNUAL POLAR BEAR DIP is held in Oakville, Ontario every January.

Over a three month period our Communication Design 2 class worked on re-branding Canadian festivals. I chose to create a campaign for the 2011 Courage Bros Polar Bear Dip. I chose this event because of the admirable… View full project

STOP!MOTION: JELLO BEATS

This is a small experiment I did using Jello and a stop-motion technique. A personal project, I wanted to play with a unique material that was easily malleable and very colorful. I set small toy whistles in the Jello and revealed them partway through in synch with the music.… View full project

A CHARACTER PORTRAIT: It Happened on a Tuesday

“It happened on a Tuesday” is a character portrait of my late best-friend, Nicole Howard Keller. She very much inspired and propelled me to be where and who I am today. Oddly, Nicoles family has no tape-recordings of her, outside of one audio-recording she made on her cellphone the… View full project