Design Guide - The purpose of the Design Guide is to enhance the design process by improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the client-designer relationship.
Given as a gift to prospective clients, the Design Guide serves to promote my services and facilitate a harmonious relationship if I am selected.
Metaphorically a life-saver, the Design Guide is covered in nylon and built from foam, and contains both serious and humorous elements.
Daily Planner - Interactive 3D calendar
I sought to create an innovative, sculptural chronological tool that exploited the potential of physical interaction to enrich the functionality and pleasure of its use.
One half of the year is on each side of the cards, so that after six months the back of the last card is the first day of the next six months. This feature as well as the spinning motion reference the cyclical nature of the calendar.
Careful attention was paid to the ‘access hierarchy’: the day of the month is the first text seen as the cards are spun, and then the month, the day of the week, and finally the notes for the day itself.
The prototype pictured at left was printed digitally and constructed by hand, and features every day of the year 2005.
In Process - Design management
The 2005 graduation exhibition of the Design dept. at Emily Carr required the coordination of roughly eighty students. As leader of the Visual Group, I was responsible for overseeing the design and production of materials for the exhibition and acting as liaison to the other groups involved.
I created a visual standards/style guide that served to bring a cohesive visual language to the various exhibition materials, which included a booklet, website, invitations, and wayfinding/signage.
The work above was designed and produced by myself and the Visual Group.
Vancouver Voting System - Materials to enhance local democracy
The election process is critical to democracy, yet is fraught with problems. I saw an opportunity for design to qualitatively and quantitatively improve the experience and operation of voting in Vancouver.
A unified visual language that acted as an extension of the city’s identity was created, which was then used for a series of election materials including manuals, posters, voting booths, and ballots. I invented a special Braille envelope that allows the blind to vote as the sighted do as well.
Electronic Arts NBA Live 2004 - In-game information design & assorted front-end work
The dynamic information overlays I designed were meant to create the experience of both watching and controlling a basketball game on TV.
I also designed the title/loading screens, re-designed of the free-throw interface, and worked on various other aspects of the game interface.
ECI Grad Exhibition 2005 Poster - As the winner of an institution-wide design contest, I designed and oversaw the printing of promotional materials for the 2005 Emily Carr All-Institute Graduation Exhibition.
The year of the exhibition, and the zero/circle that represents it, are in a vivid orange that is contrasted with the traditionalism of the rest of the design.
The concept for the layout was quite simple: present the grad show as the centre of various elements: the three departments, the school, the date, and the year.
The materials were printed on a high-gloss paper stock with two spot colours, black, and a matte UV coating everywhere except the orange parts.
Buy Now! - Wild West woodtype style + TV infomercial text
Olympic Schedule - A typographic assignment from my term at RISD that displays, time, duration and location in a highly legible format.
Renaissance Type Specimen - Exercise in Renaissance typographic style.
Neoclassical Type Specimen - Exercise in Neoclassical typographic style.
Modernist Type Specimen - Exercise in early Modernist typographic style.
I designed Archura at RISD under Cyrus Highsmith of Font Bureau. Archura is the experimental result of attempting to create a geometrical, rounded, and contemporary blackletter typeface that exaggerated the interplay of positive and negative space.
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