Information Design

My personal Painting Portfolio
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I created this 16-page booklet as a portfolio that I could give to potential customers to give them a really good idea of the kind of work that I could do. It's basically a condensed version of what you're looking at online here in hardcopy. It does however have a lot more information on each piece of work, and even a few that aren't online.

Click on the image of the portfolio's cover below to see a PDF of the portfolio:

Canadian Canoe Museum 2009 Annual Report o	Return to Top o
In 2009, I was again commissioned by the Canadian Canoe Museum to create their Annual Report. The theme this year was "Celebrating Our National Treasure". Click on the image of the report's cover below to see a PDF of the report (included here with permission from the Canadian Canoe Museum):

Canadian Canoe Museum 2008 Annual Report
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In 2008, I was commissioned by the Canadian Canoe Museum to create their Annual Report. They wanted to do things differently this time, and produce a report that moved away from static pictures of museum displays, and showed how the museum is actively (and colourfully) involved in its own community. I worked with the "paddling" theme, and made the image of the paddle consistent throughout the whole report, most obviously by painting a wooden paddle for the cover. I also painted a version of the ancient pictograph on which the museum's logo is based for the back cover.

Click on the image of the report's cover below to see a PDF of the report (included here with permission from the Canadian Canoe Museum):

Canadian Canoe Museum newsletters Editor from 2005 to 2010. o	Return to Top o
From the fall of 2005 to January 2010, I acted as the editor of The Canadian Canoe Museum's quarterly newsletter. I did a little bit of writing for the newsletter, but was mostly responsible for the gathering of material, and the desk top publishing. I worked with a number of very talented writers who make my work a lot easier! Here are a few examples of the newsletters:

Intructions for the Assembly of the Red-Eared Pond Slider
Prepared for the Faunal Archaeo-osteology course at the University of Toronto, 1990.
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Part of the course requirement was for each student to disect a small animal, and preserve its skeletal material for the University's reference collection. I chose a turtle, and decided to include assembly instructions to show future researchers how the separate skeletal elements fit together. The style I chose was a hommage to the instructions in the model kits I loved so much as a child. The original was printed on both sides of an 11 by 14 inch piece of paper, and folded evenly in 4.

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The Eclipse-based InfoCenter is a revolutionary way to deliver documentation to an audience over the internet or a local intranet. In July 2003, I published one that my team-mates could access to get instructions on how to set up and work with their new tools. Here is the introductory page, updated with new graphics and a better menu in September of 2004.
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Menu Designed for the Olde Stone Brewing Company, 1997.	Return to Top o
This information used to span three separate menus. I introduced this unique way of folding a sheet of 10.5 by 17.5 paper, and re-organized the content to fit on one. The restaurant received several compliments on the new design.