Promotional piece

This is the promo piece for the Brokers and staff to order calendars. It is closer to what I originally envisioned for the call for entries but didn't have the thirty hours to spend in Photoshop like I did for this. Not that I had that time this week, I just neglected my other work! The only thing I'm not really happy with is the 2008 SGI CANADA type in the top left corner. I don't send out files until Wednesday so I've still got time...

Party invitation

 
This cocktail soireé invitation was a pre-wedding celebration for friends, kind of like an engagement party.

Newspaper ad

Unfortunately, this first "green" ad is in black and white, but there will be a whole promotion around Salvage so this style of illustration could be quite fun.

Fun and tacky posters

Could I do anymore photocopy posters - this month? Seems like that's the only kind of poster I do anymore...

I'm doing to calendar this year. Against my will. I'm not a big fan because it's all project management and 8% creativity. Not my idea of fun. So I did it how I wanted to do it. I think everyone who see it in approvals will be leary about it. This call for entries might be a little too fresh for them. Or maybe it's just naive in general.


This is a youth conference after-party poster. The title was so lame. A party in the summer. I couldn't resist making the images really lame, too. Deli tray, anyone?


UPDATE: Here is the final approved conference poster and ticket. Not a big surprise they didn't go with the first option...as it was a joke.

It was a dark and stormy night

A cover illustration for a new brochure about unregistered trailers. How exciting.

Brochures

This brochure template was designed about four years ago. Each is a different colour within a green to blue to purple range. Well, we've actually been expanding out of that as there are so many various brochures now, we needed more room for differentiating them. And I still like them after all these years...

Another year gone

Finally, another annual report done. And done.

School contest posters

 
These traffic safety themed posters needed to be bright and bold to compete with all the other visual noise in school. Lukida the safety fox (top) was custom-created for this project.

Moving forward

I think it's funny how people so politely ask why the cover is so plain and the interior is so bright. I always tell them that I wanted to create contrast between the exterior and interior while maintaining our corporate visual identity standards. That's when their eyes gloss over and they squeak out a little, "oh." I don't tell them that the book has no focus and that the title is just a title and doesn't really communicate what the interior holds so therefore I really had nothing to work with. Just made it up as I went along...

Bunny Hop to Hip Hop

This was a challenge, trying to combine hip hop and bunny hop since one is a genre and the other is a song/dance. It was an album cover, shrink wrapped and all authentic-looking. All conference materials were inside and there was an accompanying 2007 calendar that is displayed neatly in a jewel case.

Pretty pictures

I've done way too many illustrations at work since. Most are junk, but they are getting better. The most recent is the following identity theft one. It's an all right way to kill an afternoon.

The following one I can't take full credit for the original illustration, but I "enhanced" everything about it and updated a number of the elements. Click on it to fully experience the difference...