Designer's Alphabet Book

This project’s goal was to create an alphabet book based on design terms. The cover’s illustration was designed as children’s blocks featuring symbols familiar to graphic designers. I chose Helvetica because of it’s clean lines and wide use in the design world.
    Each Opening spread is designed to display the letter and one word starting with that letter. I chose design words that had a second meaning and illustrated the second meaning. i.e. a James Bond figure shown with the word alias.
    Subsequent spreads would show design words with their definitions, while the word that appeared on the opening spread would have the non-design definition.
    The colours chosen for the book are bright and have a high level of contrast in order to make the book attractive to a younger audience. However, the copy is meant for an older audience, making this a piece that would spark someone’s interest if it was sitting out on a coffee table.

MUOTO - Magazine Covers

For this project I was required to create 3 covers for the magazine MUOTO. Each piece had to have a different masthead and execution.

    I went for a more geometric and monochromatic approach. Each rectangle is the same colour with different levels of transparency. To further emphasize the cover artwork the feature articles are overlayed on the masthead.
Original illustration by Lee Tourigny.

    This cover places the feature articles higher in the hierarchy, than the masthead, which is placed at the bottom of the cover.
Stock illustration was used on this cover.

    This cover brings the masthead back to a larger size, but places it towards the bottom, to bring more attention to the feature stories. A solid colour background is also used in order to bring more focus to the masthead and the feature stories.

The Block Magazine - Redesign

This project required me to take the existing publication “The Block” and redesign the masthead, folios, and the layout of one article. The masthead was redesigned to have more impact and the ‘O’ was outlined and placed in a block to play with the publication’s name. To redesign the article we were required to create an opening spread and one subsequent spread. While the project required redesign, it also required that I kept the general feeling of the magazine.

    Created using Photoshop, Illustrator, assembled in InDesign. 

    Original photography by Lee Tourigny.