Memorial Centre Farmers Market 2014

I think I designed more last year than in any other. Here are my favourite design picks from my work as Marketing Manager for the Memorial Centre Farmers' Market.

 

(Please note, the silhourettes originated from another designer who made the market poster previously. The produce heart graphic came courtesy of Foodland Ontario.)

 

 

(On this design I also did the product photography.)

(None of the photography is mine)

(In this case, I only took the photograph on the left)

(Not my photography.)

I am so proud of this one - it took me ages and is the most complex design I've done to date!

PeaceQuest 2014

Time is tight these days. Here are my favourite items designed for PeaceQuest.ca in 2014.

Featured in the Winter 2015 issue of Ploughshares Monitor

(This one has not been used)

Press Releases

These are some press releases I designed for Transition Kingston and Cycle Kingston. I used Microsoft Office 365 for both of these files. These are long ones, so they took roughly 3 hours each. A shorter 1-paragraph press release should take roughly an hour, and even less once a template is created...

Everything Hearthmakers

Here is a selection of posters I designed while working at Hearthmakers Energy Cooperative. All of these events I helped to organize and facilitate. It was great fun, they are a good organization. I highly recommend volunteering for the Depave Paradise project.

The fish, RAIN logo, and wavy background were not designed by me. Created in Microsoft Word.

For this poster, the background photo is also mine. Created with GIMP.

Created in GIMP. Photos by myself and Lizzography.

Created in Microsoft Word. Photos by myself, Lizzography, and Erik Coleman.

Cabaret 5 goes Pulp

I LOVED making this poster. It was agony learning some new techniques to create the little "Halloween Special" skull portion, but totally worth it in the end! The original image came from a pulp novel book cover. I spent quite a bit of time matching up fonts to maintain the feel of the text.

jiu jitsu is epic

One of the Main Street Market staff over the summer asked me to help him with posters for his jiu jitsu class. With the intent being to put them into high schools, there were a few very specific restrictions.

No pictures of "violence", and no "promotion" of violence.

Unable to decide whether "awesome" or "epic" was better. Two versions got made. (2011)

the kingston life

Things started heating up this fall (haha) with an opportunity to make a poster and an ad for a local craft fair. This is my first ad in print!

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The ad can be found in the Nov/Dec Edition of Kingston Life on Page 22. Also featured in an article in the same issue are other local friends and allies Kevin Merritt and Lucas Huang on Page 46. I think I'm going to keep a few of these issues for years to come!

On a less exciting note, here is the poster. I am still very proud of it, my work keeps getting more and more complex.

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This poster would -not- look this amazing without the guidance and advice of Chris Boucher, who gave me very useful pointers after looking at a suckier version of this poster.

Ultimately I ended up pulling out of the craft fair to make room in my schedule for my new dream job!. It was all in vain, but hey, they have a nice poster and it was worth it. (2011)

cabaret bursts at the seams

Our first attempt at having the cabaret at a new venue. A lot changed. This poster has 3 incarnations. I like them all.

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#1


#2


#3 (made at 1am. i was very tired)

#2 ended up being used.

gimp-free

Everything you see on this blog is made with the Gnu Image Manipulation Program or GIMP. Except for this one. I didn't have access to my home computer at the time so I used Microsoft Word much to my chagrin.

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Its also relevant to note that I took the base photograph. Both are from 2010.
Body paint done by Sherry Bellafontaine-Bruce.

take two

The first cabaret was so fun, it became an establishment. My role of poster-maker became a badge of pride. This is where I really start having with it.

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To date, this cabaret was my favourite. It had the best and loudest audience. I do not own the base image. 2010

the cabaret is born

It started when a fire spinner said, "I want to have a cabaret for my birthday."



Though today I am dissatisfied with this poster. It had to go up. 2009

itako

This was a blog meme. I think it originally turned me onto making show posters in the first place. Itako is a fictional, randomly name-generated band. The image and sentence were also randomly generated in google searches. I do not own the image. 2008

i thrash, you thrash

Some old friends play electro-industrial. They came to play Kingston one fine day.


poster and...


flyer. 2008
they haven't been back since.