When I was studying Design, I submitted many designs to companies and organizations, inculding the Labor Union of Waterloo, The Canadian Space Agency, The Waterloo Jazz Festival and the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival. A children's colouring book which I co-developed with a classmate won first prize and was published and distributed to children at the Maple Syrup Festival. I have an extensive portfolio spanning several years of work. I work both by hand and digitally. I use an iMac running OSX and I work mainly in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Quark. I have some knowledge of Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks (although I used neither for this site).
Below is a concept for a Provincial competition to design a label for a new wine. Oakville Ridge is an actual winery in Ontario. I chose the image of a loon and illustrated it in an Ojibwe style because I felt both elements very clearly reflected Ontarian and Canadian heritage.
The illustration was done with Windsor & Newton watercolours. The bottle is a digital illustration, and the maple leaves were scanned directly in and manipulated in Photoshop.
Here is a closeup of the illustration.
For one assignment, the class was required to create a mock theatre company, and then choose two actual plays and design a poster for these plays. I chose Wonska: Crawl Out Of Your Teepee by Tomson Highway, and Girl Who Loved Her Horses by Drew Hayden Taylor.
Below is the poster I designed for Wonska. The illustration was done in pen & ink and then scanned in.
Here is a closeup of the poster illustration.
Below is the poster design for Girl Who Loved Her Horses. The illustration, as well as the poster borders, are painted with Windsor & Newton watercolours.
The following two designs were ads created for a set of 3 Swatch watches that we were also required to design (a replica, not a real working watch). I decided to go with pocketwatches, and the cover of each represents a different nations: Ojibwe, Haida, and Inuit. the watches are made out of clay, with a leather strip attaching the cover to the bottom. The "chains" are braided buckskin straps with silver pony beads. the covers are painted with Delta Ceramcoat acrylics. I also crafted buckskin cases for each watch (not shown).
For the ad body (a magazine ad and a billboard design), I scanned in a piece of buckskin, a wolf pelt, a bone choker and an imitation eagle feather.
A logo designed for the Native women's drum circle I belong to, Mino Ode Kwewak Ngamowak (Good Hearted Women Singers). Digital illustration produced using Adobe Illustrator.
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