A little about me...

I've been a graphic designer for nearly 30 years. Throughout that time I've worked in a pre-press shop, a corporate office, a communications agency, and a college. But most of that time I've been freelance, and much of my work has been with musicians, theatre companies, non-profit and non-governmental organizations. So much fun, and so rewarding.

Aside from design, I've also been very involved with international development and social justice work. I started as a volunteer with Change for Children (CFCA), a small, Alberta-based NGO, and eventually worked with them full-time. With CFCA, I got to travel to Central America several times to visit, work with, and learn from their project partners. In 2000, I was Coordinator of the “Painting Peace” Project, based on the United Nations’ “Culture of Peace” initiative. The project used visual art to explore the themes of peace beyond an absence of war. It included the painting of over 90 small mural panels and three large outdoor murals in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Canada.

A call from Six Shooter Records led me to leave Edmonton for Toronto in 2004. I began working a lot with Martin Tielli - he'd do the painting, I'd do the layout for so many albums. In 2010, we decided to ditch the big city, and now live & work on a fantastic little acreage just oustide of Hamilton, at the foot of the Niagara Escarpment. Love it out here.

WORK

Freelance Graphic Designer

1990 - present | Edmonton/Toronto/Hamilton

Projects include logos, stationery, posters, flyers, postcards, print ads, brochures, booklets, newsletters, annual reports, event programmes, resource guides, CD/DVD packaging, promotional items and merchandise, calendars, sell sheets, e-vites, web banners and ads, social media assets, billboards, and retail window displays.

EP Canada L.P. (The Love Guru)

Graphic Designer, Props Department | August - October, 2007 | Toronto

Designed and created props such as magazine and book covers - and even a circus logo - for a major motion picture.

Grant MacEwan College

Graphic Designer, Arts & Sciences Marketing | 1999 - 2001 part time | Edmonton

Projects included posters, advertisements, brochures, handbooks, newsletters, displays, and promotional items for Arts and Sciences Marketing and other departments.

The Support Group / Airworks Media

Graphic Designer | 1993 part time | Edmonton

Graphic designer with a team that provided full-service communications; projects included fundraising campaign materials for non-profit agencies.

AGT / Telus

Graphic Designer, Advertising and Corporate Communications | 1988–1990 | Edmonton

Projects included advertisements, in-house newspaper, newsletters, annual reports and brochures.

Scangraphics Ltd.

Graphic Designer | 1987–1988 | Edmonton

Graphic designer for a pre-press service bureau. Projects included advertisment design for many provincial and national magazines.

EDUCATION

Visual Communications Diploma (1987), Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton

Web Design & Development courses, McMaster University Continuing Education, 2011-2012