Anūs Magazine
(*ah-noos) Altering Notions and Unseemly Shit. This was a super fun magazine collaboration with Dana Lissack. We explored wasted opportunities by literally digging through the trash to suss out the chasm of possibilities that awaits. With a humorous and cheeky tone we provide entertainment, and creative inspiration to our readers. In this particular issue we venture to the otherside with our trash, where life is polished, and refined. Luxurious and provocative. Tasty and expensive. Anūs: Fancy edition
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Book Series Redesign
I wanted to redesign A Series of Unfortunate Events books for a special limited time collector’s edition that came with puzzles for the avid reader to decipher and enhance the experience of a great series. The suitcase belongs to Lemony Snicket; somebody was following him and so he had to stash his suitcase away with all his working copies of the books, his notes, and prized trinkets. Now you, lucky reader, have come across it. In the case you will find: Lemony’s Commonplace book Books 1-13 A trinket from each of the Baudelaire children Disguises for a true VFD
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Garbage
GFL (Green for Life) Environmental Inc. has a simple clean brand with a striking green accent color that gives their company a “fresh” look, which is tough to do in garbage. To push this idea further I created a dirty garbage pattern to be placed in all sorts of real-life applications, including posters and decals, resulting in the beautification of garbage all around the city.
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Beauty Line
CORE is an androgynous beauty line that celebrates who you truly are. We relish the natural, and aim to encapsulate raw elements that will enhance and empower you. Be proud of your core; let it radiate, and let our products help you draw out whatever that may be. We want you to feel incredible. The video on the right could be used on CORE’s website as a hero banner, or for social media promotions.
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Sex Pamphlet
This is a pamphlet I created in Info Design. Intended for ages 14-24, it is meant to entertain the viewer during their long stay in a clinic waiting room with crass illustrations, open-minded information, and shocking statistics. The purpose is to realize that everyone is different, and there is no need to feel ashamed or judge anyone else. It’s time to be open, honest and safe. It is three booklets saddle-stitched in an accordion format for easy handling: Attraction Be Smart and Safe Why Now?
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Visual Language
Creative Challenge: Create a new visual language for film advertising. One that relies on and relishes words, instead of falling back on the usual photographic imagery. Take a director of your choice and use the power of type to promote a retrospective screening of their films. Christopher Nolan often plays with time in his epic movies. This is why I chose to center my entire concept around one continuous thread to illustrate a timeline that interacted with motifs from the three movies. • Memento chronicles two separate stories of the main character, and the scenes are clues/hints to restore his memory. • Inception plays with time since as with each deeper level, time slows down. Ariadne, the architect in the movie is told to design mazes and her character is based off a woman in greek mythology that lead the hero of the story through a labyrinth using her rope. • Interestellar’s letters are strung up in the stars, and in this movie all the astronauts are affected by time due to a blackhole.
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Product Design
The Calgary Public Library was looking for products that bookworms would love! They had the standard swag with the logo on it covered, so we looked at what they were missing, and how we could make some products quirkier. Products Clockwise: large mug (for lots of coffee) bookmarks greeting cards poster/print tote bags wrapping paper “This book belongs to” stickers You can Shop for a Cause and get any of these items & much more at librarystore.ca
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Promotional Material
I was commissioned to design posters, postcards and banners for Tender Napalm a play in the Toronto Fringe Festival. After reading the play, which is a whirlwind of emotions for a couple after the loss of their child. I wanted to pair very stark photographs of them with drastic, but childish illustrations.
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Story Telling
The work I did for this class was some of the most fun I’ve had illustrating, and I think that was because the final piece wasn’t as important as the story/concept, so I felt more comfortable trying new things. The first project was to create an illustration inspired by an assigned artist. My artist was Emily Carroll – a prominent voice in the web comic horror genre. She strives to make her viewer feel uneasy, so I decided to illustrate my greatest source of unease: water! Another project was to take the classic Red Riding Hood tale and tell it a different way: in another era, from another point of view, maybe Red is a wolf? I decided to focus on the fact that in many of the versions the wolf seems to gobble down little Red and the Grandma in one gulp. “It was pretty dumb of the wolf to eat us alive, hey Grams?”
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TV Series Intro
Pushing Daisies, which unfortunately is no longer on the air, was a sweet and quirky show about a pie maker who had the ability to bring the dead back to life with one touch, but if he touched them again they would be dead forever, and if a dead thing was kept alive for over a minute; something else had to die. The original intro has the narrator explaining the premise, but as a viewer I know that that can get annoying once you’ve heard it for the eleventh time so I wanted to tell the story with a few simple visuals. The animation is done using cut paper and then manipulated in after effects. The switch from black and white to color represents life and death and the pie not only reveals the actors, but also acts as a countdown. The show had a very retro stylization to it and I wanted to capture that with some nostalgic music so I chose a song from the electro-swing genre. Music credit: “Brotherswing” by Caravan Palace.
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