[PRINT] Spaghetti Factory

THE OLD SPAGHETTI FACTORY Drink Menu Design

Already one of my favourite restaurants, I really designed and illustrated this drink menu for the free spaghetti.


THE OLD SPAGHETTI FACTORY Drink Menu Illustration

Handed out with every menu, the initial run has since been reprinted, laminated, and expanded to multiple factories.


THE OLD SPAGHETTI FACTORY Drink Menu Illustration

The Bellini is really good, like a Slurpee for grown-ups.

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Posted by nick to PRINT at 1/24/2006 12:51:00 AM

[PRINT] BCREA No Vote No Voice

BRITISH COLUMBIA REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION Campaign

This campaign was intended to promote political activism among realtors, encouraging them to take part in the electoral process while wowing them with my logo design skills.

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Posted by nick to PRINT at 1/24/2006 12:27:00 AM

[PRINT] BCREA Banff Postcard

BRITISH COLUMBIA REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION Banff Postcard

The theme for this annual realtor conference and trade show, the Banff Western Conference, was "Take Control of Tomorrow", and they wanted the theme of their marketing materials to match the directional signage they would have at the event.

Anyway, the conference was at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, so I added the sign post to the image with some photos I took and some type I created, and there it is.

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Posted by nick to PRINT at 1/23/2006 11:51:00 PM

[ILLUSTRATION] ODG Holiday Card

OPACITY DESIGN GROUP Holiday e-card

Instead of sending out a physical card, for Christmas we sent a special e-card to our clients with an animated wish from all of us at the office.

After doing caricatures of the four of us and Chance, the office dog (and then after "fixing" the caricatures once everyone saw them for the first time, Chance excluded), I drew approximately one million separate frames of animated mayhem, which my coworker Kelly then painstakingly animated in Flash to the tune of Jingle Bells.

Click here to see the result of our work while enjoying the song Kelly probably still has stuck in her head.

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Posted by nick to ILLUSTRATION at 1/18/2006 01:30:00 AM

[IDENTITY] Alexatech

ALEXATECH INNOVATIONS Stationery Package

In case you didn't know, the typical stationery package includes: a letterhead, an envelope, a business card, and in this case, a note pad as well.

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Posted by nick to IDENTITY at 1/16/2006 01:17:00 AM

[IDENTITY] Powell Dorian

POWELL DORIAN Stationery Package

This stationery package for a law firm took cues from the lines in the logo's column, using them to divide the page and make up the layout of the mailing label as well.

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Posted by nick to IDENTITY at 1/18/2006 01:06:00 AM

[IDENTITY] Principle Endeavors

PRINCIPLE ENDEAVORS Stationery Package

Diecut curved edges = cool.

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Posted by nick to IDENTITY at 1/18/2006 01:02:00 AM

[IDENTITY] Murphy Beds

MURPHY WALL-BEDS HARDWARE Logo

An identity for one of those companies that makes beds that fold up and away, like the one Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky had on Full House.


MURPHY WALL-BEDS HARDWARE Stationery

For the back of the business card we were able to use the logo blown up and cropped to show the details, which was fun.

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Posted by nick to IDENTITY at 1/18/2006 12:53:00 AM

[IDENTITY] Hayer Homes

HAYER HOMES Stationery Package

The cool thing about the letterhead for this construction company is how it is designed as a notepad that could actually be used for planning and on-the-spot blueprints. I thought of that!

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Posted by nick to IDENTITY at 1/16/2006 01:19:00 AM

[IDENTITY] Craik Creative

CRAIK CREATIVE Logo Concepts

I really liked this approach to an interior design company's logo, with the C & C of the name echoed in the compass curves, but we went with an all type treatment in the end.


CRAIK CREATIVE Business Card Concepts

Thus, these business cards never saw the light of day either, although I still think that colour palette is swell.

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Posted by nick to IDENTITY at 1/16/2006 01:18:00 AM

[IDENTITY] Lone Pine

LONE PINE EQUIPMENT Logo

Hand drawn in the computer because the original drawn illustration for this logo was just a tad complicated for scanning and automatically converting to vector. It has a real cowboy feel.


LONE PINE EQUIPMENT Stationery Package

This particular stationery package included a notepad as well as a windowed envelope.

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Posted by nick to IDENTITY at 1/16/2006 01:17:00 AM

[ILLUSTRATION] Celayix

CELAYIX SOFTWARE Time Management Icons

Some of the more detailed icons I did for Celayix's time management and employee scheduling software.

Also, they're completely vector, which might really impress you if you were a design nerd like me.

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Posted by nick to ILLUSTRATION at 1/16/2006 01:05:00 AM

[ILLUSTRATION] Bulldog Tech

BULLDOG TECHNOLOGIES Tradeshow Booth Illustrations

Two technical illustrations used in a tradeshow booth to illustrate the security and satellite tracking systems Bulldog offers, specifically for big 'ol trucks.


BULLDOG TECHNOLOGIES Tradeshow Booth Illustrations

The final tradeshow booth with the illustrations in place (the truck is there behind the words, to the left of the satellite dish illustration, which I also did, by the way).

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Posted by nick to ILLUSTRATION at 1/16/2006 12:57:00 AM

[ILLUSTRATION] Chamber Icons

RICHMOND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Website Navigation Icons

A set of icons used to navigate the various member and non-member areas of the Richmond Chamber website. They're designed to get really small and still be usable.

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Posted by nick to ILLUSTRATION at 1/16/2006 12:53:00 AM

[PACKAGING] Pentel

PENTEL CANADA Ballpoint Pen Packaging & Advertising

Of all the packaging we did for Pentel, this make of pens was my favourite to actually use. I highly recommend the Energel if you are looking for a nicer-ink-than-average ballpoint pen.


PENTEL CANADA Pen Photo Before & After

Rather than go to the expense of custom product photography, we went to the expense of getting me to put an image of the Energel into the hand of this stock photography model.

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Posted by nick to PACKAGING at 1/16/2006 12:41:00 AM

[REAL ESTATE] The Reef

THE REEF Real Estate Development Brochure

A brochure to advertise a new waterfront apartment complex in Victoria. Because the architecture of the not-yet-built structure was meant to suggest a cruise ship, nautical themes like porthole-shaped photos and fish patterns are seen throughout the project.


THE REEF Signage Diagram & Specs

Carrying through to the signage, we incorporated an actual ship illustration into the top and designed the porthole photos to light up at night.


THE REEF Finished Signage

Because the building housed both residential and commercial live-work spaces, we divided the sign to highlight both options while making use of artist renderings to aid buyers who were investing without seeing the finished product.

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Posted by nick to REAL ESTATE at 1/16/2006 12:23:00 AM

[PRINT] BCREA Government Briefs

BRITSH COLUMBIA REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION Government Briefs

These two needed to communicate the values of the BC Real Estate Association to government officials while keeping things very clean and in two colours. Gotta love that halftone pattern: it makes an otherwise boring monotone image look so nifty.

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Posted by nick to PRINT at 1/16/2006 12:09:00 AM

[PRINT] Parklane Mews

PARKLANE MEWS Direct Mail Newsletters

A series of newsletters sent out to the community surrounding this new townhome development, Parklane Mews.

I thought it would be funny to call it the "Mewsletter", but not everyone agreed.

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Posted by nick to PRINT at 1/16/2006 12:03:00 AM

[PRINT] Mahoney Print

MAHONEY PRINT SERVICES Direct Mail Postcard

This piece was sent out to clients with their own name printed directly in the text on the front. On the back, their names were mentioned a few more times in the copy to really catch their attention upon receiving it.

And yes, I know, I used the stock-curly-haired-urban-professional-computer-techno-savvy-glasses guy. Back then he wasn't as ubiquitous as he is now...

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Posted by nick to PRINT at 1/15/2006 11:54:00 PM

[IDENTITY] Unified Flow

UNIFIED FLOW Stationery Package

This was the first project I ever did for Opacity.

Because Unified Flow is a film and video production company, we initially presented the idea of a more traditional television. However, they wanted something that was more computery and yet still plausible as a TV, so I did the monitor illustration as well.

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Posted by nick to IDENTITY at 1/15/2006 10:57:00 PM