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This blog houses random creative endeavours, not related to my daily work life. I may also post 1989 Christian Slater photos for sexy times.
I’m totally proud of the team at The Working Group, launching PostageApp out of beta. This project will eventually work its way into my portfolio (logo, illustrations, ui, ux, creative direction) but for now, just go poke around the site and register for an account for yourself.
Just stumbled upon some photos of my 2005 York/Sheridan Grad Show display panels. My god… it seems like a lifetime ago. I still have some of this physical work but some of the digital files have been lost in a series of failed DVD burns/backup drives failing.
from The Rise of Endymion, by Dan Simmons
This quote has stuck with me for over 8 years since I first read the gorgeous Hyperion cantos (probably my favourite series of novels). I don’t know if I truly knew what it meant at the time, but it struck a chord; it resonates deeper than ever now.
I should really get dressed/do my hair/get psyched for tonight… yay friday!
Sean and I finally decided on a name and a domain for the secret project! Exciting times…
We just need to uh, get started on the idea/product now. This is the most excited I’ve been about a design project in a long time (branding, website, packaging, p.o.p, ads, general amazingness).
…since I started sketching regularly. Part of me thinks it might be because I am scared that one day I will run out of my cache of Pentel Superb BK77 fine ballpoint pens (I can’t find them in stationery stores in Toronto anymore, but a quick search makes me feel a bit better about their availability on a global scale.)
So anyway, you were bound to figure out that I’m a lecherous perv soon anyway, so here are a couple of pages from my latest sketchbook.
I recently stumbled upon my old Flash portfolio website circa 2002… I wish I still had the vector files! I remember labouring over those pill vectors into the dead of night.
Vivian is treated more like an experiment, than a human being.
Aside from being a tranny term (a hilarious fact I just recently found out), my website name “fully functional” was originally meant to be an ironic statement about myself. Back in 2002, there were many, many things medically and emotionally wrong with me. The name isn’t relevant in the same way anymore; now, it applies in a more sincere way, with the ultimate goal to being a fully functional ui/ux/interaction designer and developer.
Clearly the design of this Flash site overwhelms the dinky work… it’s kind of awesome to see where this all started.
Wow 2010 is really breezing by me. So far already I’ve been to Mexico, Hong Kong and Shangri-la (Kunming, Yunnan, Dali, Lijiang). It also feels like I’ve been to hell and back this year but that’s another story. My friend Sean and I have an exciting project in the works that we hope to launch this summer, unless life gets in the way like it usually does. It’s a little more tactile than I’m used to, since I’m accustomed to sitting on my laptop all day, but this in itself is extremely exciting and refreshing. Here goes nothing!
I started these concepts a long time ago after seeing how bad the Windsor Salt packaging had gotten. I assume the general population doesn’t think about salt packaging because… who cares, it’s salt. But if I’m going to have a box of this stuff sitting around my house for years, it might as well look nice.
(I know, I know, most people fill cool salt shakers and don’t think twice about the packaging, but wouldn’t it be nice to have that little visual surprise every time you opened your spice cabinet?)
This is the first in a series of sites that I redesign just for kicks – sites are chosen based on a personal interest in the subject matter and visuals. (current site for comparison)
I have had the Tissue Culture & Art website bookmarked for about 5 years and in that time, the Victimless Leather section hasn’t been updated at all. I think I discovered the art project after attending an awesome STELARC lecture at York, or maybe just in passing from my fascination with bio-art phase…
In September 2009 I noticed that their home page said “new website online 3/08″. This had clearly been up for a while. I emailed them to see if I could lend a hand to their awesome project in any way (still no reply). I was bored one Saturday in November so I started a redesign of the logo, business cards, and website for TC&A, purely for fun.
On a side note, the Victimless Leather project was recently included in MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit (which I sadly missed). They had to kill the coat because it was growing too much. Totally creepy, totally amazing.
An oldie from earlier this year with a couple of tweaks. This chart is especially meaningless now since I only buy Honeycrisp™ apples… (the TM is for real…).
Welcome to the new blog! It was kind of annoying setting up the Wordpress theme, but we made it, apparently! Exclamation marks!!! I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out why my additional blog styles suddenly stopped showing up before I realized I forgot a single } curly bracket somewhere… I think Sass has ruined CSS for me.
Anyway… feel free to leave a comment if things look messed on your computer. Soon I will start adding some stuff that I do in my spare time, like drawings, arts/crafts, meaningless infographics, and (ugly) websites that I re-design just for shits and giggles.