Board Game

This was for a board game for Spark. Their client wanted a board game with a map of Toronto. It was a super quick deadline, but I think it turned out ok.

Trade Show Booth Design

It's been a while since I've posted any work. I wanted to create a new promotion piece and figured that a 3D modeled image would be nice since I don't have much of that in my portfolio. I find that a lot of the work I end up doing is some kind of display concept so what better to push that idea then a concept 'display' booth. The idea of a new Tetris game is completely made up, I just wanted to choose something fun and that most people are familiar with.

Space Tourism

I recently finished illustrating another book for Kids Can Press. This one is called Space Tourism. It was really fun to do, and I think turned out even better then the last one. The images were all really fun to illustrate mostly because I had so much freedom since conceptually a lot of the machines and space crafts don't exist yet. The whole project went really smoothly and efficiently. Here's a bunch of the spreads and pages.

Label Design

A label design for a friend who is starting a new business venture. I'm not too aware of liquor label designs so this was actually a bit of a challenge. The project is still in process.

Painting

It's been a while since I've actually painted. I usually work mostly digitally. I finished this piece a little while ago. It was a personal piece for me to hang up in my home. It was definitely fun to mess around with the different mediums and size.

New Step By Step - How to cut your own bangs

This is an instructional series of simple illustrations I did for BUST Magazine. The project was small and quick with a low budget but it was fun and actually turned out pretty cool. The steps have text that go along with them, but you'll have to see the final layout in the magazine.

New Promo Piece

I wanted to create something that was scientific/medical or at least in that direction. I thought I'd make it more interesting and fun by adding the superhero spin to it. It was fun because I researched what an actual spider's silk gland looked like and just used that info to create the glands in Peter Parker's forearm. Add a little muscle research and layering and voila.
Here's the different layers separated so you can see the components:

A little bit of Design work

This was a label design I created for a liqueur bottle. The design was for a group of Guelph students who had a large project with a budget.


This is a three panel folding brochure I'm designing (still needs to be finalized) for the Toronto Yugoslavian SDA church. They wanted something that was attractive, stands out and shows a lot of pictures of the church and it's members.

ECYC Poster

I've been designing the look of the entire campaign for ECYC. ECYC is a Christian Youth Conference based out of Toronto. After many different concepts for logos and posters/banners it seems they have settled with this look - in fact they are very happy with it. It's not the kind of look that I would have originally chosen but it seems the committee is happy with it, so that's all the matters. The logo seems to be the only element left that is still not resolved, so hopefully we'll be able to get that sorted soon.

Website glitch...

If you've visited the website lately you may have noticed that some images were not loading completely leaving only half of an illustration visible. I just noticed the glitch this morning (after sending out promos ahhhhh). I have resolved the problem and hopefully it should be working fine now. You may have to empty your cache on your internet browser to clear the unwanted "half" images from before. Sorry for the mix up.

Step by Step

It's been a while since I've sent out any new work or promos so I thought I should maybe make something new that I can use to send out as a mailer. I wanted a good instructional illustration showing hands and decided that a series of images showing the loading of a pirate pistol would be a fun way to showcase all that. There was actually quite a bit of research involved which I think always makes an image better. Overall, a fun project to work on.

Vacation Time

I'll be unavailable for a week from March 12 - March 21, 2010. I'm going for a snowboard trip out west to Whistler and Mt Baker. I'm really excited about it! If you need me for anything just send me an email and I'll get to it when I get back.

Humanoid wakeboard construction

This is an illustration I did for Humanoid wakeboards. They wanted to show the layers that go into their boards and the fact that they use a wood core instead of foam.

MTEL Graphic Wrap

I designed some stuff for MTEL including their logo. These are some vehicle wraps that I did for them a while back.

Ultimate Trains

Here's some of the spreads I illustrated for 'Ultimate Trains' a book I did for Kids Can Press. It's a 40 page illustrated book on the evolution of trains throughout history. It was probably the largest project I have done yet. So that was a challenge but it was definitely a fun and interested project to work on. Plus I learned a lot about trains. It seemed like it took forever to complete but it's finally finished and should be printed soon. To see the rest of the images you can pick up a copy at your local book store or Chapters.