Some of my recent work.

  • Nicholas Russell: Jazz Guitarist

    Nicholas Russell: Jazz Guitarist

    My good friend Nicholas Russell is a very talented guitarist and composer. We’ve been collaborating on various musical projects since who knows when (our best guess is since around 1998). He asked me to give him a hand setting up … Read the rest

  • Lonsdale Gallery

    Lonsdale Gallery

    I worked with the folks at Lonsdale Gallery last year to design the “Alternative Process Photography Symposium” web & print materials. Recently we collaborated again to update their own website. We revamped everything in a simple, easy to use, … Read the rest

  • deschooling.

    deschooling.

    “deschooling” is a new collaborative learning project I’ve started. With all the talk of Occupy Wall Street and one of their big concerns being the cost of education, we’re doing an experiment to see if education can be made free. … Read the rest

  • Copious Couture

    Copious Couture

    I recently worked with Carissa McCaig of Copious Couture to set up an online shop for her fashion and accessories. She is based in Toronto and makes some pretty nice ladies’ fashion so have a look at the site and … Read the rest

  • Sounds Like An Earful

    Sounds Like An Earful

    “An audio podcast about using your ears to rethink everything from making your morning coffee to kicking the bucket.”

    Sounds Like An Earful is a podcast about using our ears to make everyday life more interesting. Its host is a … Read the rest

  • Whiskey Planet

    Whiskey Planet

    Whiskey Planet is a brutally realistic, gritty and heavily-stylized post-apocolyptic survival sim game. The world is based on 5 factions vying for position in a turf war over small towns in Northern England. Players assume the role of a single … Read the rest

  • The Flood of 1924

    The Flood of 1924

    I recently created stop motion short with Colleen Mckeown of We Ain’t Friends! It took us forever, and we are both now partially insane. But you can watch it here! It’s also live at flood.aintfriends.com! Here is the synopsis…

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  • Alternative Process Photography Symposium

    Alternative Process Photography Symposium

    The Alternative Process Photography Symposium hired me to design their entire brand identity for their first annual festival in Toronto. We produced their identity, their website (with online enrollment/payment processing for events), multiple print brochures, custom tickets, print advertisements, large-format … Read the rest

  • EZ Grocery & Convenience

    EZ Grocery & Convenience

    “EZ Grocery & Video” tells the story of an ensemble cast of characters sharing a West End Toronto street. Readers follow eight intertwining stories about reclusiveness, social deviance, community, and the brief moments where lives meet. This book tells the story

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  • Cheddar Interactive

    Cheddar Interactive

    Cheddar Interactive is a small interactive design firm led by Dan Loach. They specialize in finding alternative solutions to new media needs. Recently we worked together to create their brand identity and website.

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  • Fridger

    Fridger

    Fridger is a puzzle game created for the iPhone. It has you shifting and sliding a little dude around, avoiding holes in the ice, snowballs, and more. It was created by a colleague of mine, Josh Yaw. He asked me … Read the rest

  • Parlour Salon

    Parlour Salon

    Working with Tyler to update their website so he could manage the content himself, was a pleasure to say the least. Everyone who works at Parlour is really friendly and I recommend you go there next time you need a … Read the rest

  • Raquel Blues

    Raquel Blues

    A website I designed for Raquel, a singer/songwriter based in Toronto.… Read the rest

  • Hot Pink Apron

    Hot Pink Apron

    I recently helped my sister set up a website for her new business. She’s officially a food-blogger now, and she posts some pretty incredible stuff. My nieces are also often her testers and models as well, and they are damn … Read the rest

  • We Ain’t Friends

    We Ain’t Friends

    Colleen Mckeown and Christopher Postill are two young Canadian visual and multimedia artists who frequently collaborate on creative projects under the pseudonym “We Ain’t Friends”. Their mandate is to create things that are honest, poignant and inspired by a Do-It-Yourself … Read the rest

  • Music For My Family

    Music For My Family

    When I was but a wee lad, my mum and grandma enrolled me in piano lessons. At the time I thought piano lessons were for girls and I felt a strong urge to reassert my machismo. Eventually I just stopped … Read the rest

  • Todd & The Book Of Pure Evil

    Todd & The Book Of Pure Evil

    I was hired to design the web presence for Todd & The Book of Pure Evil. We did a gradual roll out of the website coinciding with the airing of the show. Really fun site to make.

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  • Aiode

    Aiode

    Aiode is an experimental pop music collaboration with Nicholas Russell. We’ve been making music together since either of us can remember and it’s become a bit of an annual ritual to disappear into the forest for a week every year … Read the rest

  • Jungle Bricks

    Jungle Bricks

    I was hired to do sound design and musical composition on another mini-game recently. The game is a “Brick Out” style game set in the Mayan jungle produced for Mesmo Games. Lots of hand drums, mallet instruments, etc. The … Read the rest

  • Connor Undercover: Spy Alliance

    Connor Undercover: Spy Alliance

    I worked as both a Flash AS 3.0 programmer and the sound designer/music composer on Connor Undercover: Spy Alliance. Spy Alliance is a series of mini-games as well as a large social game. I contributed to realizing the social game … Read the rest

  • The Conduits

    The Conduits

    An online collaboration with Heather Mauch. We make sweet found sound pop and do it all online, she’s from San Francisco. Here is one of our songs…

    Up & Down

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  • Flub & Utter

    Flub & Utter

    I was hired to do some sound work on the National Film Board Interactive production ”Flub & Utter”. The project is an interactive film about Jordan Scott, a poet with a stutter. My work was to recreate audience ambiance (as the location sound … Read the rest

  • 746

    746

    While I was living with two fine young fellows named Joseph Murray & Thomas Van Der Zaag, we took it upon ourselves to create a collaborative work of art every day for a month. Each day one of us would … Read the rest

  • How To Be Indie

    How To Be Indie

    I was hired to build the online presence on How To Be Indie, a show for tweens that airs on YTV. The sites features video, character bios, and even an interactive game that puts you in Indie’s shoes for a … Read the rest

  • Two Buds

    Two Buds

    Two Buds was a short-run internet video series I was a part of.… Read the rest

  • Relentlessness of Dreaming

    Relentlessness of Dreaming

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    The Relentlessness of Dreaming is an interactive installation by Christopher Postill which explores collectivity, dreams and our control of our own subconscious. The piece is a surreal experience in which the viewer interacts with life-sized winged figures which are … Read the rest

  • CSI:Miami Boardgame

    CSI:Miami Boardgame

    I was hired by SBG Games as a graphic designer on some of their latest board game releases. I worked with them to design the packaging, as well as game components in the box. It was good fun working with … Read the rest