Canadian Owl Stamp/ Day of Issue Cover.

House & Home.

Typography 3 assignment: We were given two articles from house & home and had to design them under the same restrictions given to their designers. We used their templates as well as their fonts. Here's what I managed to come up with, enjoy.

how to:

Project for Design 3, I had to show how to use an object in five steps. I chose to show how to make a scarf into a hat. enjoy.

strictly business.

So I've been tinkering around with some business card ideas, here's a few. enjoy.

sample catalogue covers (rough).

I'm currently covering a graphic designer while she's on vacation at hyline dateminder. My boss asked me to give him a few sample ideas for their 2010 catalogue, here's a few variations of one idea. Possibly more to come. Enjoy.

shoo website

The final part of our assignment was to design the website's layout and were suggested to use an 8 column grid. Here was my solution; I decided to make an eight column grid and in order to have a more organic feel to the product page I didn't adhere to it too closely. I hope it works, I suppose I will find out once I recieve my grade.

typeface report revised.

shoo layout.

wtf is ocad?

So this week I threw in some designs for the redesigning of OCAD swag. Here they are. Also, I am fully aware I'm obsessed with budesbahn and I'm trying REALLY hard not to design with it... it has proved much more difficult than one might have thought. What does a designer do when they have a love affair with one font? download thousands more. I have been on a spreeeee.. one of my new favorites is blocked (no idea who it's by.. it doesn't say.. odd)..could never ever work for body copy but I'm not even concerned with that right now... that's right.. said it.. eff legibility. Let the minions work to read. haha, kidding... not really. Anyways, enjoy?

miam.

because it's been bothering me.

the colors were too saturated. it was making me angry. blame the gloomy weather?

les oiseaux.

sometimes add makes you more productive. yay!

shoo cont'd.

business card created for 'shoo'.. and continuation of our earlier branding project. Coming up will be a four page spread, fun fun fun.

bored in lecture.

I guess there's no use in hiding it, I love love love ampersands. love them. I hope you do too.

more headingtons. I get bored easily. terribly sorry.

header header.

before i get in trouble, I stole the flower image from flikr here. The other picture is of me and is my own (well I believe my friend Jessica took the picture with my camera/my settings) aaand I designed it in both illustrator and photoshop (my loves). Same with the other headers... oouuii.

headers.

Just out of boredom. enjoy.

saved soul.

I designed this logo and package for a 'green' shoe company.

look.

I had to make 25 designs after the word 'look'. I decided to just show everyday things you look at, and place the word where you look. Here are a few I liked.Oh, I added color after the fact, it seems all second year assignments involve no color. boo.

bauhaus shoo.

So, here's the assignment I'm handing in on friday. We were given a period in design, and had to design a logo and wordmark for a shoe company called "shoo" in said period. I was given bauhaus. As i was designing it, the only challenge I had was trying not to make it look incredibly 80's oddly enough. I chose a prada patent leather oxford platform bootie as the shoe to incorporate in the logo. It's a modern reappropriation of a classic shoe (oxford), so I thought that would suit the assignment. Not to mention they're so hot right now. 

Three things define bauhaus to me; heavy rules, vertical axis, and sans serif type.. not to mention all things geometric.  I incorporated two out of the three in my design, leaving out the heavy rule. I didn't feel it suited a woman's shoe company. I initially had a rule over the two o's in shoo, but opted for the circles instead. I used futura medium as my typeface. Obviously.

I'm relatively happy with the outcome of my assignment, it's not to my taste per say, but given the assignment it works.

Oh, it also had to be in grayscale.

black and white.

Working with a lot of restriction forces you to be more creative. Here are some black and white posters I did for my year 2 typography class.

asterisk ampersand ?

imperfect, but cool.

soap.