Woodpigeon-songbook.com serves to keep Calgary-based band Woodpigeon's fans informed about upcoming releases, events, performances, news clips, and anything else awesome associated with Woodpigeon. Fans can explore the site to find out about who is involved in the WP projects, how they came to be, and to listen to WP's recordings. A fun little site with some Flash embedded for playing music and navigating the sections.
http://www.woodpigeon-songbook.com
This website is a forum for the Edmonton/Calgary band Spreepark to showcase their music, pictures, videos, and provide news updates to fans. Visitors can preview Spreepark's music via a Flash audio player and then download what they like. For FREE!
http://www.spreeparktheband.com
Elaine Ball is a London, Ontario based textile artist who needed an online presence to display more of her work and skills. The site is geared towards showcasing Elaine's work, but also serves as a conduit towards sales and commissions as well.
http://www.elaineball.com
The Design for Dying website hosted news, pictures from shows, songs in mp3, lyrics, and biographies of the band and members.
This was the first incarnation of firstword design on the web. It was Flash-based, using XML for the data and updates, and used and iPod-like control to traverse the image sets. It was 'cool' and an interesting interaction, but proved inefficient and unreliable as the control lacks precision movement and guidance in regards to the set divisions. Clicking the image affords sequential movement forward, but with no reverse! Thusly, the newer and more clearly organized version has been born out of this necessity. Feel free to try out the old version via the link below.
http://www.firstworddesign.com/v1/
After creating a brand identity for the home staging company Buchanan Interior Solutions, applying the identity to a business card was the next step. Here it is.
As a high-volume real estate team, Team De Block needed a cohesive image and design to advertise via their business cards. For the 'team' side of the business card, we went with a group photo and fresh design to highlight the cooperative nature of Team De Block, as well as each individual's role. I redesigned the personal information side of the card to unify it for the whole of the team and make it easier to identify key information.
http://www.teamdeblock.com
As a new-comer to the local pawn broker scene, the owner/operators of Cash Cow Pawn Brokers needed an identity along with collateral signage and business cards. This is what I created for them.
The design for a 25ft tall banner hung from the front face of the John Labatt Visual Arts Center, at the UWO campus. The banner was made to advertise the 2006 BFA Graduate exhibition. Since, the JLVAC is not easy to find, a map was included on the reverse of the postcard-sized invites.
I designed two very different cover possibilities for The Artful Dodgers' album 'Flying Lessons'. The one that he ended up selecting was 'Dreamy Transpo.'
This is a logo I designed for a French Theatre Company in London, Ontario.
You know, a little poster design that will (was going to) be used for a concert listing...
This illustration has been used on the Spreepark website, though it was originally designed to be printed on tshirts to be sold at the bands live shows. NB: Rollercoasters are awesome!
Life Support (formerly 'D.N.R.') came out of the questions surrounding Cyborg's and Artificial Life. It exists as a vector drawing, screenprint on mylar (sorry for the poor documentation), and as a t-shirt (image to come). One of my favorite drawings.
A series of stickers that I produced all revolving around the ideas of power and how it is used and abused. Stickers were placed in public and primarily on major transportation stops or the transportation itself.
This collection of illustrations centered on the feeling of hurt was going to be another sticker series, but I decided the content wasn't really sticker-appropriate.
A selection of drawings automated with Adobe Flash, inspired by pop culture design that was over-saturated with common elements. My goal was to exaggerate and question this by generating elaborate animated compositions and saving screen shots of them. (Note: this was just at the beginning of the 'Flourish' invasion into design.)
Speak Series was an experiment in digital painting of figures that could possibly speak the iconic symbols I was working on developing.
'words as containers as words' is the graphical outcome of thoughts on how words act as vessels for meaning and help to pass that meaning from one communicator to another. The visual representations that follow are interpretations of how some word actions look. The vector drawings are shown here, as well as some of the light projections of them.
