Web Development
adbeast studio is an application enabling users to manage projects, share and collaborate, and present their work. My involvement has been to design and develop the user experience and workflow while maintaining the corporate branding strategy. Our current developments include work with AJAX based UI, scripting for video compression, and rapid prototyping of conceptual interfaces.
Bell Canadian Open a yearly promotional site with a unique feature on the client's sponsored player, Mike Weir. In building the site, we provided event previews, interviews, and live blogs from the event as it occurred.
Enterprise Creative Services wanted a simple website that could manage all of their reels, portfolios, and news releases. The primary focus involved translating their existing brand and print material into a web format and establishing a template for which they could base future content on.
Detour's UrbanSource is an online bookstore for environmental books. As project coordinator and designer our specification was to design an online ordering system that integrated with several distribution outlets from scratch. The website was coordinated with a rebranding, new partners, and a launch party with a deadline that had to be met.
Toronto International Film Festival draws millions of people every year each looking for that great movie experience. For four years I worked on constructing templates that would efficiently communicate the designer's creative as well as create a complete cross-browser experience while keeping a small filesize footprint was my main task. Recipient of an Applied Arts award for work on this project.
Blink Pictures has an immense portfolio of directors and affiliates they needed to manage and promote through their website. The design incorporated elements from their recent promotional illustrations, using the playfulness in some signature flash animations.
Saturn Saab Isuzu a promotional web site for the latest in product offerings. Culminating in a yearly refresh the site typically involved flash development, and management of temporary assistants to get the content into the database in a timely fashion.
The Lotus Awards is an award show featuring the top work from the West coast of Canada. Here we decided to make use of XSLT to cut our work to a fraction of what it could be while developing the Winners site.
Print / Promotional
Japan Foundation, Toronto implementing the global brand strategy involved developing wayfinding, the web site, and business cards, each with their own cultural sensibilities to take into account. The end product was a colourful and striking mixture of silver and purple on a substantial stock of paper and in three languages.
MATSUNAGA, Shin one of the premiere designers of Japan. His work frequently calls the four elements in nature and his use of depth and space is engaging. The brochure was designed so that it could be used both as a poster and a 3 panel pamphlet. A five colour press used a signature silver that made an appearance in several of his pieces. Matsunaga's use of depth was reflected in this piece using an outline of his signature which floated below the copy.
KAMEKURA, Yusaku The Graphic Giant was a promotional brochure for the Japan Foundation, Toronto. Drawing from the prevalent use of gold in the works the brochure used the same tones as highlights against the largely neutral background. The end result highlighted the works and let them speak for themselves.
Rakugo & Kamikiri Theatre a three panel brochure for the Japan Foundation, Toronto. Featuring three of the performers whom I drew using reference photos prior to their trip from Kyoto. The performers enjoyed the brochure so much that it was used in a later version for a tour in Japan.
Kyogen Theatre simply by tracing the performers the design took on a minimalist approach in a fashion very much simillar to the style of the performance. The end result was a sparse design, with a line drawing that laid the brochure out for us.
Gidayu Music The brochure features illustrations of the performers Toyotake Toku-tayu and Toyozawa Tomisuke with (respectively) the Gidayu script and Shamisen instrument. In the background is the Gidayu script used in the presentation. The brochure was made to accomodate the french translation of the copy.
Community Bicycle Network runs many programs from Wenches with Wrenches, the Speaker Series, and BikeShare. In my several years on the board of directors I managed and produced several promotional projects including the first annual poster project featuring eight 30x40" posters, and the Speaker Series monthly posters.
