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  Website: Tanya Lipke, Costume Designer

  Busy Vancouver Costume Designer Tanya Lipke needed a website that she could update with news and images while on the go. We set her up with a blog-based site with a few static pages, a contact form, and a direct link to her résumé on IMDb. With a little instruction she was able to take [...]

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  Nelson Mandela Poster for Gold Star Productions

  We are currently working on an identity poster for a documentary about Nelson Mandela, specifically how music played a huge part in his political life. Client: Gold Star Productions. From Gold Star’s website: “Music for Mandela” is a rich, feature-length documentary which looks back at two landmark international broadcast events – 1988s Nelson Mandela 70th [...]

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  James Alix Thomas: Fashion Designer

  We were lucky to be asked to put together some identity work for the amazingly talented fashion designer James Thomas recently. Click through to see some concept work and video of his autumn/winter 2011 line.

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  Trailer for Crash Site: A Family In Danger

  The trailer for Crash Site: A Family In Danger is currently being hosted on this page. Our playback can be seen at :05, 0:45, and 1:25.

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  Stylus Logo

  The final identity for a music school in British Columbia. Click through to see some rough concept sketches.

Theatre Posters

Twentieth Century

The last production of the season for the Metro is “Twentieth Century”. The action takes place in 1933 on the iconic train that ran between Chicago and New York. A rising starlet regards the train as a symbol of her increasing success, while an old flame, down on his luck, sees her as his last [...]

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And Then There Were None

A classic play with strong, dramatic imagery, thankfully re-named from its two previous versions. The brief was for something to suggest the isolation of the location, the terror of the murders, and the sense of helplessness as the victims are picked off, one by one. Further experiments in blending colour though textures. This one feels [...]

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Opening Night (2)

This version didn’t quite fit the bill, either, unfortunately. We learned some interesting techniques while working on it.

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Opening Night

An ensemble piece, “Opening Night” is a play-within-a-play wherein things go hilariously wrong. Our illustration, unfortunately, was one of the things that went wrong. Although this is one of our favourite pieces we have done for the Metro, it was rejected. The central image speaks (to our minds) very clearly about the essentially human quality [...]

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A Nice Family Gathering

A warm comedy where a man’s dead father appears to him as a ghost during a family event. We kept it bright and cartoonish to emphasize the comedy, but tried to show the melancholy side as well. Soft textures and a warm/cool colour dichotomy add to central ideas.

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Strictly Murder

The plot in Strictly Murder revolves around a central character with a mysterious past. Strangers show up confronting him of past misdeeds and even trying to kill him. With not much imagery to go on, we chose the shadowy protagonist, and the pastoral setting, for the focal point. There is little, if any, blood spilled [...]

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Theft

Theft is a British comedy about two couples who return from celebrating an anniversary. They find the house has been burgled and a man claiming to be a policeman appears from a closet, already on the case. He’s the thief, of course, but the story unfolds with twists and surprises as no-one is what they [...]

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