skills
Visual Design
Typography
branding
Animation
tools
Figma
Photoshop
blender
maya
Project
design
explorations:
reBranding
Visual experimentations
graphic design
animation
Extracurricular club Work
posters
motion graphics
flyers
roles
visual designer
user research
3d modeler
animator
A collection of promotional materials I designed for the club over five years, including work from its annual anime convention, SFU Summer Festival.
DESCRIPTION
As one of Simon Fraser University’s largest clubs, SFU Anime brings students together through various social events that foster lifelong memories and connections. Over five years, I served as a club Executive, including leading as President, coordinating events, and managing social media, helping grow our Discord community from 600 to over 2,500 members.
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design
explorations:
sfu anime club
Academic Projects &
extracurricular
posters Experimental branding
roles
President
social media Coordinator
secretary
events coordinator
A collection of various academic design projects during my 6 years in SFU’s school of interactive technology.
DESCRIPTION
Achieving a Bachelor's of Art within the program, SFU’s SIAT program played a heavy hand in shaping my journey as a designer. Long sleepless nights occupied with challenging design projects, my team and I would be inspired by our professors to learn from the greatest designers, chasing after the likes of Massimo Vignelli, Tibor Kalman, Chris Ashworth, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Alexey Brodovitch, Jacqueline Casey, and many more...
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Tasked with creating a series of new promotional materials for an annual showcase of the most exciting design work from the Netherlands, the following posters highlights entries from previous years. This direction was ultimately scrapped for one that had greater depth, tackling more provocative aspects of Dutch society.
This earlier iteration takes DDA’s logo and attempts to bring motion to a static poster. Beginning with 5 sides, each following “keyframe” reduces a side as the shape transforms into a triangle, or the “A” in DDA.
One of my first major design projects, we were tasks within a team of 5 to shape NOF’s brand through posters, tickets, business cards, and a new website. I was the lead designer, typographer, and interaction designer on this project, creating the final visual direction you see here.
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An early SIAT project, I remember being extremely inspired by Tadao Ando’s beautiful minimalist architecture. Years later, I would like to think that Tadao Ando helped build my habit of sketching layouts, experiments, and iterations with pen and paper every time I start a new project.
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Outside of design, SIAT taught us how to make our own games, code, direct films, and animate! Having previous Blender experience and learning Maya for the first time, I had so much fun working in 3D environments and building a fully animated short film. Maybe this is a medium I’ll return to one day...
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A personal artifact, this magazine attempts to explore how each of it’s authors’ identities have been shaped by design, society, and the cultural influences that we didn’t fully get to experience.
