Client
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Base5
Brand rollout and marketing design—brochures, cards, posters, stickers—including an full revamp of key print materials to align with the gym’s new branding and branching out with single-use or short run promotions. For both gym locations in Vancouver, Canada. 2019–ongoing.
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People Gotta Move
Exhibit graphics, branding, and marketing for the New Westminster Museum and Archives, including digital and print billboards, banners, posters, and full wall-wrapped interpretive panels. 2018.
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DB Power
Brand and collateral design for a small business launch. Simple and effective, particularly for the owner/operator to implement on their own, in the saturated outdoor powersport market of Kelowna, Canada.
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Church Legal
Website redesign and revised site map. Project coding and management by Paul Beard.
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Mentor Guides
Series of three guides, colour and image-themed for quick identification. Developed for the non-profit Immigrant Services Society of BC and their mentoring program connecting students, staff, and businesses in Vancouver, Canada. Branding, font and icon selection, layout and print- and screen-ready booklets. A single file for each guide can be purposed by ISS staff for…
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Better Halves
Interior and cover design, with flaps and decorative chapter motif. 5.25″×8″, 280 pages. Published November, 2022.
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Men’s Initiative
Develop a new look & feel for an initiative founded at the University of British Columbia, starting with their 2020 Strategy and Business Development documents. Selected imagery, fonts, and colour palette. Exported for print and screen. 2020.
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A Polyamory Devotional
Cover and interior design, with illustrations by Tikva Wolf, published 2023.
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Cycling the PNW Vol 1
Cover and interior design.
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Great Expectations
Cover and interior design. Matte jacketed paperback cover, footnotes, index. Cover and interior illustrations by Ping Zhu. Published September 2019, 240 pages.
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Sharks
Cover and interior design. Sharks, Skates, Rays and Chimeras of British Columbia is also first in a series I was commissioned by the Royal BC Museum to develop featuring a new graphic and layout template for their revised handbook and field guide series. Published May, 2020, 232 pages.
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The Recognition Sūtras
Cover and interior design, including foil-stamped jacket and binding, soft cover edition, and ebook. Font selection and treatment was particularly challenging with multiple character, diacritic, and unicode support. Working from scanned manuscripts, to Microsoft Word documents, to final InDesign layouts introduced a variety of new and surprising technology hurdles (font variants make even copy-pasting an…
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Ask – Interior Book Design
Interior design and typesetting from concept through printing and ebook. Multiple authors, sections and chapters, with variable text alignment and graphic highlights for chapter title emphasis. Paperback with French flaps, 5.25″×8″, 224 pages. Cover design by HardestWalk.
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It’s Called Polyamory
Second printing and new cover & interior design, typesetting, print production and ebook. Variable graphic motif for chapter headings. Paperback version 5.25″x8″, 208 pages, ebook in enhanced epub and Kindle formats.
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BC Water & Waste graphics
For the British Columbia Water & Waste Association pilot report, a set of vector info and theme-based graphic treatments and templates for current and future published reports, including a brand guide with typography, icon, and colour selection.
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Thorntree Press Fundamental Series
Concept design and implementation for a new book series, including graphic look and cover and interior templates. Created first two covers, as well as interior design and typesetting through to print and ebook production, for the series.
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Love, Retold Graphic Novel
Graphic novel layout, with extensive word and image editing, to translate the web-based comic to print paperback. Full colour gloss, 6″×9″, 96 pages. Cover and interior illustrations by Tikva Wolf, cover design by Darinka Aguirre.
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Inner Worlds Imprint Logo
Publishing imprint, including optional variations for use:
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UBC EOS Map Rebuild
Vectorize and overlay new data for a mapping project with the University of British Columbia’s Earth and Ocean Sciences department.
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Goddess and the Guru
Cover & interior design, from concept through to printing and ebook. Foil stamped jacket and cloth binding, two-colour printing, nearly 400 margin notes, tipped-in end papers and author-signed pages, and full-colour photo inserts. Both limited edition hardcover, and softcover. Published 2017, 8.25×8.25 inches, 416 pages; epub 3.0 and Kindle enhanced.
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Purple Prose
Cover, interior design, print production. Published September, 2016, 352 pages.
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Group W Logo
“Alternative” bicycle racing group with a motive for mischief wanted “bad” logo to match their ongoing bad design efforts to produce collateral and clothing designs for their new club and race series. Inspiration included obscure Woody Guthrie lyrics and trash (literally). Gave myself one hour, tops, to produce the whole thing from hand drawing, to various scan methods…
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Branching Out Exhibit
Exhibit branding, marketing, and large format panel design and production for an exhibit at the New Westminster Museum and Archives. Working with the curatorial and install teams I was responsible for image selection from their archives, panel size, design, and materials, as well as overall look and feel of the marketing collateral. Exhibit posters. Exhibit cards…
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Architectural Gems Exhibit
Exhibit branding, marketing, and large format panel design and production for an exhibit at the New Westminster Museum and Archives. Working with the curatorial and install teams I was responsible for image selection from their archives, panel size, design, and materials, as well as overall look and feel of the marketing collateral.
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LCC Rebrand
Rebrand with new colour palette, logo and print & web themes for the Vancouver-based non-profit Language & Career College.
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LCC Collateral
Re-brand and re-design of a variety of print materials for Vancouver based non-profit Immigrant Services Society Language & Career College, 2013–ongoing.
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Weaving Conference
Logo and wordmark for a 2017 conference of weavers in the Pacific Northwest. Of note, the client, the Association of Northwest Weavers’ Guilds (lovely old ladies), were very friendly and the most organized to work with—they approached the branding of the conference three years in advance. The brief included the pre-selected “Treadle Lightly” pun to coincide…
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Hubbub at City Hall
Concept, branding and collateral for the end-of-semester exhibit and workshop for CityStudio, a non-profit education experiment that connects students with City of Vancouver staff on applied sustainability problem solving. With a budget of $200 and a one-month turnaround I developed the pop identity, a metaphor that plays off the kernels of ideas the students bring…
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Nordri Wordmark
Custom wordmark and hull application in automotive vinyl on a refurbished North Sea 33 sailing boat, based out of Sidney, British Columbia. The name references the owner’s Scandinavian origins—Nordri being one the four dwarves of Norse mythology supporting the four cardinal directions. The eth character (crossbar on the ‘D’ in Nordri) is also a Scandinavian…
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Vancouver Cyclocross Coalition
The newly-formed VCXC approached me to create a crest for their new cycling initiative. With a provided sketch and a couple evenings I iterated a number of wordmarks and monograms and developed them into a modernized heraldic crest for use on promotional posters, flyers and social media invites. The process involved hand sketching, scanning, digitizing,…