Experimenting with photography and textures
Sometimes I like being a girly girl. I love sundresses, pink, and high heels. I usually play with muted colours in my work, or brighter cleaner palettes. But I’ve always loved juxtaposition (both the word and the actual meaning) and I’ve always loved experimenting with multiple layers, transparencies, and blending modes with various textures to ...
Africa: Not a Single Story
Even though I’ve graduated from VFS, I’m still involved in a few projects with current students. One of those people is current EBM student Bernat Manzano who also happens to be an aspiring documentary film producer. Right now I’m working on a poster for his final project, a documentary pitch package for a film called ...
A real designer can design anything
A real designer can design anything. I’m not sure if that’s a quote that I’ve seemingly forgotten who spoke it, or if it’s just an attitude that I’ve had since my first round of education at St. Lawrence College. Either way, I try to live by it each day, and ‘design’ my life in a ...
Are you happy?
I was reading the August copy of Applied Arts magazine the other day when I came across an ad for Lexus with some touching body copy. I wrapped it around an image I took at Whistler last weekend and voila! This is the end result.
Violet
Originally we thought we’d get back to refining our 24 hour film festival submission, Violet , before we could all post it to our sites. In the very small chance that it does, I’ll repost, but for now, here is a link on a friend’s (who also happened to be the director of the film) ...
Oh boy!
Everybody says it, so I’m not going to. I’m not going to apologize or make excuses as to why I haven’t been keeping up with posting new bits of information or progress on my assignments, I’m just going to try to do it better. Where is the source of this enlightenment coming from you ask? ...
24 hour film festival
Friday July 17th, at 10 pm an important email will be sent. This email will have two details in it. It will contain a theme and an item or action and each will have to be incorporated into a film that will take 24 hours to produce, pre-production straight through to final project. I can’t ...
Buy-A-Net Malaria Prevention Group
Check out the new site I’ve been collaborating on with a few others. www.buyanet.ca. My first experience with WordPress and I must say I’ve learned a lot. Never underestimate the power of Google and tutorials to learn. A great site for coding samples is www.w3schools.com. For tutorials for everything software related check out www.lynda.com.
Working for yourself
It’s hard working for yourself. Not so much the actual work, but putting yourself first. You have to put yourself down as a client on your list, or you’ll always find something else better or more important to do. Take for instance this website. I started it December 11, and then it just fell to ...
My first blog
“Maybe you should start blogging” was the advice I was given when I asked “the meaning of it all” to a fellow designer. “Stop being afraid and just throw yourself at it” has been another good piece. So this is my first post. I started talking to people more about jobs in Toronto, started designing ...