Author: Mike

  • My Steve Jobs Tribute

    I did this digital tablet drawing of Steve Jobs for a class project in school. I spent quite a bit of time huddled over my Wacom Cintiq trying to reference draw this portrait, and it just goes to show you that Steve Jobs had an influence my life not just in the products his company…

  • ProgressivePower Brand Guide

    Here are a few snapshots of the brand guide I created for my fictitious electric utility company for Graphic Design 4 class at OCAD University. Brand guides are often much more detailed and unpacked – this was what was due for this course however. Interested in seeing more? Download the full Brand Guide in PDF…

  • Illustrator Outline Problem

    Illustrator Outline Problem

    About a month ago, a classmate of mine had pointed out that illustrator sometimes had a mysterious hairline around shapes of objects, even when there wasn’t a border or outline defined on the shape. Furthermore, this outline when exported out into raster format, retained and translated that outline into the pixels of the image! See…

  • Celedays Calendar

    Celedays Calendar

    Celedays Calendar: Here’s a project I worked on for my Typography 4: Expressive Type class. The concept revolves around a calendar, “.. [it may be] a usable calendar or one that simply incorporates the elements that one associates with a ‘calenda…

  • Interac goes Social, Show Some Appreciation!

    Interac goes Social, Show Some Appreciation!: I don’t personally know a single Canadian that doesn’t use Interac. From that big purchase at department store to the small coffee at Tim Hortons, Canadians may at times, take for granted the convenienc…

  • Gap's New Rebrand

    When I visited the Gap website this morning for the first time, I was appaled at the entire roll out (or lack thereof) of their brand across all sources: gap.com (old favicon still displayed on the address bar), wikipedia (not even updated), twitter account (not updated), facebook profile (not updated). It makes me wonder if…

  • Get URLs, Captions & Titles for Images Attached to Posts in WordPress

    I’ve been working on a new WordPress theme for my client that involves a billboard concept where certain posts are categorized as homepage billboard items, and those post items have images attached to them within the Media gallery of WordPress. I found out how to pull out the URI address of the images that are…