Graphic Design and Illustration.

Supreme Learning Catalogue

Supreme Learning had a problem. They supplied teaching supplies to schools from Kindergarden all the way to grade twelve. They wanted to make certain that their entire product line was well represented on the cover so as not to alienate teachers from different school levels. Since the book itself was huge and broken up into different sections, an item from each section was placed on the cover and colour coded to match the section headers in the book. The while thing was outlined in a grid pattern and various callouts were added to even things out as there were an odd number of sections. The logotype was pre-existing.

Star Wars Poster

A Christmas present for my wife (who just happens to be a big Star Wars fan). Basically, all I wanted to do was see how far I could take a digital painting. I tried to keep in style with the Star Wars movie poster while introducing some of my own elements.

St Mike’s.com

The previous website was quite out of date in both design style and content. Since I am a designer and a parishioner, I was asked to be the Parish Webmaster. I then went on to a complete overhaul of the site. And have kept the site as up to date as possible. You can find the site here.

South Winnipeg Kindershule

A daycare with German language and culture as a major part of their curriculum. I was asked by my then German born Art Director to come up with a logo for them. The company I worked for had already designed the logo for the building they were going to be in and the day care really liked that particular logo. So all I did was create a “kid” version of that logo. The type used was hand drawn using a blunt pencil crayon on very rough paper using my opposite hand. They must really like that logo since they are still using it as is twenty-four years later!

St Michael and All Angels

When St Michael and All Angels, a local Anglican parish, decided  to create some forms so parish members could tithe thru electronic money transfers instead of weekly cheques, I was asked to rebuild the graphic digitally. The graphic had been photocopied many, many times throughout the decades and was badly chewed up. I designed them a new one. Since they are a church where tradition is very important, I didn’t deviate too much from what they already had (i.e. a drawing of their church). I just redrew the image using some aging techniques and used some distressed fonts to create the look of ancient timelessness.

SD Logo

This logo was created for some self promotional material. The logo was created by playing around with interlocking shapes to form the “s” and “d” letters. The end result was a pleasing balance of thick and thin shapes that looked original and contemporary. The 3D bevel effect was added in Photoshop.

Rust


I first drew the design of the armour when I was in high school. Years later, I redrew the design on the computer using Macromedia Freehand and then Adobe Photoshop for all the textures. This drawing took almost eight years to complete from conception to final drawing!

Enjoy!