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Projects!




Down and Out in Paris and London


Publication Design

The Death of the Moth: Book

Down and Out in Paris and London


Idioms: Harvard Sentences

Sparrow: Book

Olivia’s O’s

History Will Judge Them

The Cat, the Clock and the Rock

Ontario Bouldering Guide Dustjackets


Animation/Video Design

The Death of the Moth: Reflection

The Heaviest Weight

Sparrow: Animation


Poster Design

Ontario Bouldering Index

Vignettes Poster


Miscellaneous

Who Are You Wearing?

Marie Antoinette Triptych

GradEx 111

For this publication, I typeset a section of Down and Out in Paris and London. For context, the chapter I chose to typeset acts as an unintentional exposé of high-class Parisian hotels. It exposes them as looking fancy on the surface, but being run pretty horribly underneath the glitz and glamour.

With this in mind, I designed a chic, minimal dust jacket with a sturdy hardcover. While this is all very nice, the book block is more “grubby”. Of course, the end pages boast cockroaches with a crumby accent page, while the text itself is set like a poorly designed paperback. Imagine your expensive coffee table book has morphed into a cheap yellowback edition, how sad.