The Board of Trade Co. is a concept clothing boutique which offers a platform for creatives to collectively showcase their work. Featuring up-and-coming designers from around the globe, The Board of Trade Co. provides Vancouver with a look at new talent while offering great quality products at affordable prices.
We were commissioned to design a custom lettering mark for Ryan Mitchell's side project "The Kwazies Experiment"—A short fictional film about a highly intelligent species of animals that have stood upright for the past few generations, attempting to integrate into human society. The mark we were requested to make needed to portray a raw and violent characteristic while remaining legible as a lettermark.
We had the opportunity to create a limited set of summer inspired postcards for the community at North Shore Bethel Christian MB Church during their promotion of summer activities. These cards were used during a Community BBQ and Garage Sale providing information regarding church activities throughout the week.
The 2011 Emily Carr Graduation Exhibition was a group project initiated by fourteen graduating design students.
Our team decided to focus on the concept of the vergecommunicating the excitement and anticipation of the moment before graduation/completion.
This concept took the visual form of objects and paint hanging in the air to reflect the idea of the short moment before an occurrence.
Taking the final concept and visual language, our team took on different roles to carry the branding through to various deliverables.
Our involvement consisted of the branding of the exhibition as well as the art direction for both the print and web catalogue.
Priory of Ten is a well celebrated fashion brand started in 2012. With a purposeful consideration for elements of balance, harmony, and quality in design, Priory of Ten presents a strong but subtle appearance for the individual.
We had the opportunity to work with fashion designer, Mei Liu on identifying the brand direction of her fashion line and develop a website presence that reflect the tone of voice that consists of subtlety and strength coherently.
In celebration of the 2012 Chinese New Year, we wanted to create a limited edition calendar that combines a traditional Chinese layout with a minimalistic aesthetic.
Following traditional Chinese convention, this lunisolar calendar is formatted in vertical columns from top to bottom. The first column (displaying the days of the week) is on the right side of the page, and the days run towards the left. The moon phases, represented with symbols in this calendar, are especially important in the Chinese calendar as they mark traditional East Asian holidays such as the Chinese New Year.
In the winter of 2011, we had the opportunity of working with the planning committee for the 51st Canada Chinese Christian Winter Conference. Working with the conference theme title Yet His Love Goes Further Still, we developed our concept based on a comparison between the physical nature of the sun and characteristics of God in Christianity.
Our observations included of how the sun is both distant from the earth and yet still reaches it to bring light, warmth, and life. These aspects relate similarly to the presence of God who is omnipresent. Our concept became the main motivation for the selection and application of the images and the placement of type that purposely bleeds off the page. This project includes an array of deliverables including branding, print and screen collateral as well as promotional material.
Fabrica is a deceptively simple sans serif typeface optimized for screen display on handheld devices. With its optimal quality and legibility, Fabrica proves to be highly efficient for small screens. Its details are drawn from the more systematic constructed Neo-Grotesques, giving it a neutral tone of voice. Above all, Fabrica’s beauty is found in its functionality.
Constellations is a self directed project uncovering the various connections between the spheres of Christianity and Design. Three copies of Constellations were produced through a meticulous screen printing process.
Collator is a sans serif designed to achieve greater harmony between Chinese characters and Latin letterforms when set together. Drawing inspiration from the two traditions of type design, Collator aims to be a contemporary, balanced expression of both Western and Asian cultures.
This project was awarded as a Finalist in the 2011 Applied Arts Student Award for Typography Design and Application.
Sight & Sound was done in collaboration with Joey Chung and Eunji Choi. The project objective was to creatively categorize image and content concerning graphic design around the world. We chose to categorize content by ways of themes that summarized the movement of graphic design in a particular nation and time period.
An important aspect of our project is the marriage between visual and audio language. In using songs for the featured country, we utilize this element of sound to summarize the emotions of a nations story at the time period selected. Also included in this project is an array of visual translations of the songs. This was an intuitive and experimental exercise. To bring a level of order to these graphic spreads, we chose to use simple graphical elements to represent an audio sound, and repeated it accordingly.
Narrator is a contemporary sans serif typeface that aims to achieve a neutral appearance while paired with a light and approachable personality. As robust sans serif typeface, Narrator aims to present an objective voice in the typographic appearance of writing.
The Digital Narrative is the 8th annual conference for the International Digital Media and Arts Association.
The events, gallery and speakers' sections took place across multiple areas in Emily Carr University campus. We were given the challenge to design the wayfinding & signage system for the conference.
Our final deliverables took the form of matte vinyl prints that were applied to various locations including walls and floors of the school. The result was distinct, clear, and easy to understand.
Clotted Artery is a Visionary Journal started by creator Ryan Mitchell. In working with Ryan, We aimed to create a web presence that reflected the same uniqueness of Clotted Artery. The focus was to emphasize the humor and personality of this alternative online magazine.
