Work
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Brotherhood is a Constant Possibility
Cover and interior design, 2026, published by Thornapple Press, printed by Friesens in Canada.
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Transforming the Shame Triangle
Cover and interior design, 336 pages, printed with Friesens in Canada, published by Thornapple Press, 2025.
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Love Rebels
Cover and interior design, published by Thornapple Press, 2025.
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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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ReFramed
Design of the 2025 exhibit “ReFramed” at the New Westminster Museum, featuring stories of under-represented communities told through photography from the museum’s archives. Working with the curator and the museum’s fabrication team I created the layout and designed the wall-to-wall murals, camera and artifact displays, an interactive photography studio, as well as all the graphic…
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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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Say More
Cover and interior design, published 2024.
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Mushrooms of BC
Re-design of decades-old and divergent templates for the Royal BC Museum handbook series, culminating in the jewel of the guides, Mushrooms of British Columbia. In the 30+ years since many of the museum’s handbooks were published advancements in printing, photography, workflow, and digital formats means a small team—myself in design, an editor, two authors, and…
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The Object’s The Thing
Cover and interior design, incorporating archival image editing and the use of multiple text and layout styles to distinguish historical, interpretive and contemporary writings. May 2021, paperback, 336 pages Almost everyone who has visited a Canadian park or museum has been touched by Edwards’s legacy—but few know his name. Through essays and photographs, a biography…
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Pressed Plants
Cover and interior design. Text by Linda P.J. Lipsen, with illustrations by Derek Tan. February 2023, paperback, 104 pages.
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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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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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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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Ask
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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Love, Retold
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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Essential Mac Web Design Apps
While working on a contract these are the applications and programs I have running on my MacBook Pro (with OSX 10.4) at basically all times while designing and constructing a website. I can’t work without these. A lot of Command-Tab, Command-r going on. What do you use? Grab Native OSX app for taking screenshots. Good…
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Design Project Hours and Budget
How much time and money does a 4th year design graduation project take? Nearly 1,000 hours and over $3,000.
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Cycling BC Road Online Calendar
A quick and fun pro bono project for the organization I raced under for seven years. A kind of giving back to the community feel. I was in charge of the frontend design of their new race calendar and results website, working with the VP of Road as project manager and a racer/programmer who developed…
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What to Measure?
A progress report given in-class for an Industrial Design graduation project about measurements for our time.
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Measure 2009
Thoughts on a graduation project proposal for Industrial Design at the Emily Carr University, 2009.
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Transcribed Inspiration
Passages from films I’ve found particular poignant / relevant / inspiring of late. Adaptation John Larouche’s pollination monologue Note: skip to 3-minute mark “Point is what’s so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has a specific relationship with the insect that pollinates it. There’s a certain orchid looks exactly like a certain insect,…
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Congregation Wallpaper
By popular request, desktop wallpaper of your favourite heads of Emily Carr. 1024 x 768 1280 x 800 1280 x 1024 1440 x 900
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Notes on Ira Glass’ Notes on Storytelling
A textual summary and paraphrasing of some tips Ira Glass (of NPR’s This American Life) has for people starting out in the broadcast business and want to know what makes a good story. Taken from a four-part series of little YouTube videos. Two building blocks of broadcast storytelling: The Anecdote A sequence of actions. Story…
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Future Perfect Career 1
The following email was written to a professor of mine in June, 2007. I’m reviewing it again to see if it still holds true: is my dream job still Jan Chipchase’s job? This two part article will first look at my thoughts on the topic from one year ago and then re-evaluate them in conjunction…
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Interning With NGOs
A friend is about to embark on an internship with a South East Asian NGO and asked for some advice. I’ve been thinking about some general principles I learned during my time in the Philippines, in Bali, and with other non-profits and project-based organizations over the years. The following is my response, a sort of…
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The Fit of Existenz
David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999) is a near-future noir of virtual reality gaming, genetic mutations and–like all Cronenberg films–a graphic discussion of the nature of the body and its relation to invasion and manipulation. Specifically, I’m interested in the designs of the organic game pods: mutated amphibian semi-creatures with synthetic DNA that port into the gamer’s…
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Eindhoven Idioms
A short assignment for Forum with instructor Danielle Arets at the Design Academy Eindhoven: Come up with a new slogan (or an anti-slogan) for Eindhoven: Try to think of a promotion campaign to embed this slogan in a series of activities Your slogan/ campaign has to be based on some research; what is the creatieve…
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Public Space Sustainable Exhibit Notes
Hi fellow assignment teammates, just some quick ideas regarding the exhibit we’re doing for Public Space, Design Academy Eindhoven. So visiting-artist last week Max liked our idea of many variations on that theme of visualizing symbiotic relationships. I’m thinking that, in the interest of time and effort, some can be just that, visualizations, while others…