Half way through January, and 2012 is a really great year already. I’m *brimming* with excitement for all my projects and usually keep them under wraps till they hit stores, or the client starts handing out business cards on their own. BUT I’m going to bend my rules today and share some of the projects [...]

A photo post of the things I did and saw during and leading up to Christmas 2011. My boyfriend and I celebrated ‘xpressmas’ on December 18th because he was going home to Toronto, and I was planning a trip up island with the dog to see my family. Here I am having a delicious beer [...]

What do I love more than a break from the computer and the chance to help an important cause by making art? My buddy, Alison, and I are teaming up to create 2012 calendars featuring our illustrations. We each took 6 months of the year and have chosen a corresponding seasonal fruit or vegetable to [...]

My name came up in conversation when Kogi Natural founders mentioned to a colleague they were looking to refresh their package designs with a new designer. Very grateful for these sorts of referrals, I set to work, intent on living up to the positive reputation that I see making it’s way around. Our first area [...]

I’ve had the pleasure of working with SeaCider for the past 6 months or so. I take care of the day to day design challenges as needed and work with their existing branding to develop new products in their line. We work on updating product sheets, new labels, and meeting requirements to get the product [...]

Excitement is building around Victoria, BC’s new ‘modern, gourmet doughnut shop’, Union Doughnut. Opening Soon! I was (am) ecstatic to be asked to brand the new food experience destination. Watch Union Doughnut’s twitter stream for updates on the opening date and location. Meanwhile, I’m working on designing applications for their branding. To be unveiled all [...]

I had a thought I wanted to share: I’m at the tail end of a short Camosun College web development course. While it was all coming together, it occurred to me that reading a knitting pattern is very similar to coding a website. In addition, the way I figured my way around learning CSS and [...]

My Mom’s retiring next month and She and my Step Dad have bought a huge (truly, truly enormous) chunk of land way up island to farm. It’s beautiful and is so completely awesome to see them follow their dreams, diving in with both feet to become farmers. The new farm is a four hour drive [...]

Was asked if I’d agree to be a corporate sponsor of a new Women’s conference in Victoria, BC. After a discussion regarding the sponsorship package I decided to jump aboard. Starting with a logo and tshirt design, there will be other print materials such as conference guides and a notebook.

I resist, I fight it. I resisted, I fought it. My Design training in College and University was classical and theory based. Nearly every project was finalized with a print component, or at least a printed component. As a class, we didn’t study print anymore than web development, but that’s what you get when the [...]