The Book of Fears: Phobias from A to Z represents an alphabetical book showcasing typographic designs using the typeface Museo—created by Jos Buivenga of exljbris Font Foundry. The work created for this book was inspired by Jeremy Pettis' Twenty-Six Types of Animals. You can also find this book on flickr
2009 Applied Arts Student Awards Winner
Illustration Series
2009 ADCC Student Awards Merit
Graphic Design
This piece was designed to showcase 'found type' and was inspired by the CBC Radio 2 campaign. The brief indicated that the design had to hold a theme such as a typeface, a specific letter or language. I had always admired the typography of the TTC subway stations and saw this as an opportunity to work with not only this typeface but with the tiled walls onto which the letterforms were sandblasted. When the Toronto subway system first opened in the 1950's the typeface was seen as modern and progressive. Sadly the new TTC stations aren't using this typeface. For more info on this visit Inscribed in the Living Tile by Joe Clark.
These TTC posters were influenced by the vintage subway signs displayed on the Subway Signs Webstie. Each poster features stops along the Yonge-University-Spadina line.
Type poster illustrating many different uses of Soho and Soho Gothic designed by Sebastian Lester for Monotype Imaging. Together they are the best examples of the power and versatility of Open Type technology. The name of the typeface refers to the popular area in London, England. For over two centuries the area has been central to the city's sex industry but has undergone massive change in recent years. What once was a squalid scene of bars, jazz clubs, sex shops and streets and alleyways lined with prostitutes has now become a vibrant multicultural hub of commerce, tourism, fashion and residence for both rich and poor.
This project aimed to promote four typefaces available for purchase at FontShop.com. The fonts selected—Futura, Baskerville, Helvetica and Zebrawood—were featured on direct response postcards and were sent out to the design community. I wanted the cards to hold some value and contain another message where the recipient would opt to keep it hanging around their office and not toss it out with the rest of the junk mail.
Object posters were used heavily in advertising in the early part of the 20th century. This Guinness piece was created in the style of a 1950's Art Deco object poster. Object posters are a realistic depiction of an object using stark imagery and bold words. The Guinness glass is an original vector drawing. The typefaces used in the headline and the tall mythic size of the shadow are hallmarks of the Art Deco period.
For this piece I was challenged to create a surreal scene. The limitations were that I combine a minimum of three images into one while maintaining the realness and credibility of the photo. I was also asked to explore the possibilities of colour channels and manual colouring of specific objects within the photo. A total of seven images were used to create this apocalyptic scene.
The Rubix Flower represents an exploration of the transformation of images using perspective and the use of image selections.
