AFABC

{Concept, Design and Layout}Client: AFABC (ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BC) In the summer of 2009, I had the privilege to work as an in-house graphic designer intern for AFABC. I worked along with a Communication Manager and AFABC’s magazine editor…

Karma Exchange

{Concept, Design and Layout}Client: Karma Exchange, Create Change and For Our Daughters In 2011, I joined a new social enterprise called Karma Exchange as their in-house graphic designer producing everything from postcards, stickers, decals, flyers and graphics for online content.…

Seiko Yoga

{Brand Identity, Logo, Business Card, Website, Social Media}Self Project After obtaining the 200 Hour Yoga Teaching certificate and the 70 Hour Yin Teaching certificate from YYoga, a website was created to help promote Seiko’s yoga teachings which were most often…

Life on a Tightrope

{Life on a Tightrope Book Layout}Size: 5.25″ x 8″ Cover design for a memoir using photo from Unsplash. Used a handwritten font to feel more personal. Also did the interior copy layout as well. The book is about her journey…

Queen Bean Coffee

{Logo and Labels}The Queen Bean Curated Coffee The client wanted a logo of a queen bee while also incorporating a coffee bean into the character that was cute and friendly for their online subscription coffee and tea service. See here…

Decoding the Universe

{Typographic Book Cover}Student ProjectSize: 8.6″ x 5.7″ x 1.2″ Using the mono-spaced font Courier allowed the letters to be evenly spaced horizontally and vertically, so that they fit perfectly in a structured, grid-like system. The title is set in bold…

Powell Street Festival

{Event Identity + Branding}Student Project The event’s promotional piece showcases the essence of Japanese culture and the annual festival in Vancouver. I chose a gate-fold brochure which opens up into a poster. Logo Front cover of the brochure Gate-fold brochure…

Melody Yoga

{Melody Yoga Logo Design}Melody Yoga Melody wanted a logo that incorporate a yoga pose and some sort of representation of music, as music is an important part of her yoga classes that she teaches. Also, there is a play on…

WaterTiger

{WaterTiger Tri-fold Brochure}Client: WaterTigerSize: 8.6″ x 5.7″ x 1.2″ Client wanted a brochure to inform potential customers about their products. They had two versions made – one branded with Home Depot (no photo due to copyright reasons), and another with…

Max Advertising

{Concepts, Designs and Layout}Advertising/Design Firm Working as a Communication Designer at the firm from 2012 to 2017, designed various projects where most of the clients were real estate developers. Projects ranged from designing logos, postcards, ads, sale centres, signage, hoarding,…

Mall Guide

In the winter of 2017, Seiko took the part-time 30 hours User Experience (UX) program at Brainstation. Her project was focused on an app that would allow people to never get lost in the mall, getting customers from point A…

Harvey McKinnon Associates

{Various non-profit organizations}Harvey McKinnon Associates Working through an account manager, creating direct mail campaigns to help non-profit organizations raise funds, through traditional print direct mail and digital campaigns. Also working on powerpoint presentations, book cover designs, social media assets, proposals…

Monthly Giving

{How to Create Lifelong Donors Through Monthly Giving Book Cover}Harvey McKinnon Had the pleasure of designing the book cover for Harvey McKinnon’s fundraising book on monthly giving. Harvey and the publisher Emerson & Church was really satisfied with the cover…

The Healthy Nonprofit

{The Healthy Nonprofit Book Cover Design}Client: Harvey McKinnon and Jim Hilborn I had the privilege of designing another book cover for Harvey, The Healthy Nonprofit: Inspirational Thoughts on Leadership, Purpose and Success, selected and compiled by Harvey McKinnon. Harvey is…

nCrypt

Brand Identity, Website Design and Layout}Cryptocurrency Exchange nTrust was a remittance company that was going to change their focus to becoming a cryptocurrency exchange. Was hired to rebrand the company from nTrust. Worked on bringing the new nCrypt logo to…

Project: nCrypt Client: nCrypt Role: Designed new nCrypt website along with a copywriter for copy content, Senior Marketing Manager for direction, and a remote web developer. Click on the image or here to see a video of a silent screen…

Questionnaire

I had 28 people participate in the questionnaire. Here are the interesting results. Gender of participants: Female = 19 participants and male = 9 participants  Age: 25-30 = 6 participants 31-29 = 7 participants 40-49 = 6 participants 50-59 = 8…