Holman Paints is a company that specializes in paints and other art supplies. Represented here is a renewal of their corporate identity used on signage, promotional material, and products. Their corporate identity features a custom, cursive logotype that exemplifies a brush stroke. Also unique is that the logotype is intended to be cropped on products that are small or three dimensional to suggest that the company is aware of all ‘sides’ or elements of their product.

Intermix was a presentation held by myself and a good friend in hopes to learn, educate and chat about the Chinese diaspora in Canada.

Held at an art school and directed towards art students, ages 18-25, the visuals juxtapose both Chinese and Western art while still putting it in a modern context.

size: 11.7 x 16.5 in (A3)

Raster is a magazine that documents process, play and experimentation. This issue, subtitled Das Bauhaus Issue, showcases the final product of a workshop that deconstructed old magazines into new unconventional magazines; however, Raster is a playful attempt at imitating the workshop. From beginning to end, RASTER is creating itself. Thus, the cover begins with garbage bins filled with scrapes of the old magazines and the last page is the cover. The pages within the magazine are flipped upside down, mirrored and rotated to the side, making the reader conscious of the playfulness (or restrictions) of a magazine.

Depicting conflict and betrayal, this piece visualizes the feeling of being so emotionally hurt that it feels physical. To visualize this, a chemical reaction is fragmented throughout the video to show emotional pain while images of body parts and pins depict physical pain. Represented by escalating numbers and horizontal bars are levels of suppressed anger. However, the video resolves on a positive outlook and suggests forgiveness and letting go.

The Official Meteorology Handbook for the Institute of Serious Learning is an introductory book about weather and climate. Featuring simple hand constructed images to show complicated subject matter, this book is inspired by science textbooks from the 1980’s. Consisting of 97 pages, the book is filled with text as it is with imagery.

This poster promotes Earth Week to which citizens can participate in events to learn more about how easy and fun it can be to be environmentally aware. Targeted towards young professionals, the design must be sophisticated but still have a playful twist.

size: 23.4 x 33.1 in (A1)

A portrait sketch studying facial features, light/shadow and texture.

This is a poster and ticket design for an experimental typeface exhibition. The typeface is called Sheldon + Dukakis and utlizes elements that are hinted in the poster without revealing the typeface itself.

poster size: 16.5 x 23.4 in (A2)
ticket size: 2 x 7 in

This is the typeface exhibition held to release the new typeface, Sheldon and Dukakis; a typeface that is made out of metal rods. It utilizes hexagonal shape, 30-60 degree angles and perspective but more importantly, it is an experiment with spacial typography.

A stop motion monologue about a love-hate relationship. A regular guy is having mixed emotions about a girl because of the way she toys with his emotions. One minute she makes him feel happy and the next minute he is down in the dumps. This roller-coaster relationship is depicted by the toy block letters and how he plays around with it, building it up and then knocking it down.

Here are a few photos that were also taken during the photoshoot.

NOTE: There is audio

I was intrigued by analog photography not too long ago and the process of capturing and developing my own photos. Here are a few of my results. Keep in mind they are traditionally developed and then scanned in.

moHoly is an experimental film that explores juxtapositions between images, textures, colours, shapes, sounds and mixed media. The task was to create a short film that Bauhaus students would create if they had the technology we have today. I decided to use a photogram by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and put it in a completely different technical context. The result uses photography, a 3D structure, filmed footage, projection, editing and projection (again) to depict the indefinite cycle of what is possible with today’s numerous technologies.

More about the method:

I first created a video for projection using photos of different textures taken around Europe during the winter of 2008 and designed it based Moholy-Nagy's photogram.

Then, I built a 3D structure using the same elements of the photogram and projected the video onto the structure.

While doing so, I filmed the process from two different angles and compiled my footage into a new video.

This new video was then edited more extensively syncing each movement based on a track that my good friend, James Babalos, put together which fused together the different steps of the production method.

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Recognition
Backup_Festival (Germany), 2009
PAGE Magazine (Germany), 2009
Marke. 6: Bauhaus trifft Bauhaus und baut sich ein Kino (Germany), 2009 April - July

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A story about the consequences of stealing. This video depicts how children can be so frivolous and naive and eventually, they will experience the consequences of their actions.

A wordmark designed for three exchange students to depict their oddly shaped flat. (The street name was Graben)





A wordmark designed for a Canadian film titled Take This Waltz, directed and written by Sarah Polley starring Seth Rogen, Michelle Williams and Sarah Silverman.











One of the preliminary wordmarks designed for CBC's sitcom Men with Brooms.

Paulin is a hardware company that sells small items such as nails and screws. My goal was to unify and embrace the relationship between aesthetics, usability, functionality and convenience and in doing so, continue to be environmentally friendly.

Specs:

5" x 2.5" x 2"

Made from recyclable material

Constructed from one sheet without glue or adhesive

Fully collapsible (good for shipping and storage)

Interlocks to form a stable, personal storage unit

REVERSIBLE!!! Can be reused for the home or office

A typeface inspired by the pages of an unfolding book.

Designed for a magazine that discusses new technologies, this article addresses a new device that uses the tongue to help the blind to see. The design features a custom typeface and illustrates different textures to simulate how it may feel to use different senses for other purposes (ie. using your tongue to feel textures.)