In 2011, I created DigiSnail, a website and community space for the digital sharing and showcasing of favourite pieces of physical snail mail items. The intent was to “give us a nostalgic, steampunk-inspired glimpse into our neighbours’ mailboxes, virtually simulating the phenomenological ‘experience’ of opening a special piece of mail and sharing it with friends.” The site was designed using a Tumblr-based CMS, deeply customized, and a self-made logo and header. It has been quite successful at generating discussion in the academic community regarding the salience of digitization when it comes to physical artifacts.

Digisnail

In 2011, I created DigiSnail, a website and community space for the digital sharing and showcasing of favourite pieces of physical snail mail items. The intent was to “give us a nostalgic, steampunk-inspired glimpse into our neighbours’ mailboxes, virtually simulating the phenomenological ‘experience’ of opening a special piece of mail and sharing it with friends.”

The site was designed using a Tumblr-based CMS, deeply customized, and a self-made logo and header. It has been quite successful at generating discussion in the academic community regarding the salience of digitization when it comes to physical artifacts.

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In January of 2011, I was contracted by the BC Council for International Cooperation, a Vancouver-based branch of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), to create a package of youth-friendly graphics for the organization’s annual International Development Week (IDW) campaign, which aims at empowering young people to get involved in Canadian foreign policy initiatives. I’m always excited to work with the BCCIC, both because the organization’s staff are amazing and inspiring, and because the work the BCCIC does is exemplary of my personal mandate to use graphic and web design to promote positive civil society. As the campaign’s graphic designer, my goal was to create a set of materials that were bright and cheerful - and based on a friendly cut-and-paste, scrapbook-style concept.  The only challenge in this process was the required application of both Queen-based copyright wording and a wide IDW logo - but using a bit of creativity, we were able to work around these restrictions together. The various images I created were distributed as digital ads (on sites like The Tyee, Vancouver is Awesome, and the Georgia Straight), as Facebook badges and ‘Welcome’ pages, as Twitter page backgrounds and as material for the main IDW 2011 page seen here. 

IDW 2011 vancouver canada social changeVancouver is Awesome adIn January of 2011, I was contracted by the BC Council for International Cooperation, a Vancouver-based branch of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), to create a package of youth-friendly graphics for the organization’s annual International Development Week (IDW) campaign, which aims at empowering young people to get involved in Canadian foreign policy initiatives.

I’m always excited to work with the BCCIC, both because the organization’s staff are amazing and inspiring, and because the work the BCCIC does is exemplary of my personal mandate to use graphic and web design to promote positive civil society.

As the campaign’s graphic designer, my goal was to create a set of materials that were bright and cheerful - and based on a friendly cut-and-paste, scrapbook-style concept. 

The only challenge in this process was the required application of both Queen-based copyright wording and a wide IDW logo - but using a bit of creativity, we were able to work around these restrictions together.

The various images I created were distributed as digital ads (on sites like The Tyee, Vancouver is Awesome, and the Georgia Straight), as Facebook badges and ‘Welcome’ pages, as Twitter page backgrounds and as material for the main IDW 2011 page seen here. 

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As a co-founder of Fresh Media, I headlined web and logo designs for the initiative and its first community unconference event. Because Fresh Media was volunteer-based I created the website for free by using hand-scripted XHTML, CSS and a Tumblr blog-style backdoor CMS interface to ideally allow other event organizers to update the site without knowledge of web design. The site, like the interface I created for ForeignPolicyCamp, also included several interactive Web 2.0 - focused elements, such as live Twitter feeds of the Fresh Media conversations happening online around the ‘#freshie’ hashtag and @FreshMediame, as well as links to Facebook and other social media outlets.

As a co-founder of Fresh Media, I headlined web and logo designs for the initiative and its first community unconference event. Because Fresh Media was volunteer-based I created the website for free by using hand-scripted XHTML, CSS and a Tumblr blog-style backdoor CMS interface to ideally allow other event organizers to update the site without knowledge of web design. The site, like the interface I created for ForeignPolicyCamp, also included several interactive Web 2.0 - focused elements, such as live Twitter feeds of the Fresh Media conversations happening online around the ‘#freshie’ hashtag and @FreshMediame, as well as links to Facebook and other social media outlets.

2 years ago 

As one of the coordinators of a Vancouver-based unconference in 2009 called ForeignPolicyCamp via Canada’s World and other organizations, was the camp’s graphic and web designer. Because of the team’s limited budget, I worked to keep costs down by creating this complex website for the event’s various elements using hand-scripted XHTML, CSS and a Tumblr blog-style backdoor CMS interface - all elements were free. The site also included several interactive Web 2.0 - focused elements, such as live Twitter feeds of the ‘#foreignpolicycamp’ hashtag and links to Facebook and other social media outlets. My inspiration for the website, like the poster and logo, was to combine the enthusiasm of the open-source camp movement with more traditional foreign policy-style fonts and colours for an overall eye-catching, engaging tone. The website interface, along with all other camp graphics, will be released to the public domain as open source, Creative Commons-licensed documents sometime in 2010.

As one of the coordinators of a Vancouver-based unconference in 2009 called ForeignPolicyCamp via Canada’s World and other organizations, was the camp’s graphic and web designer.

Because of the team’s limited budget, I worked to keep costs down by creating this complex website for the event’s various elements using hand-scripted XHTML, CSS and a Tumblr blog-style backdoor CMS interface - all elements were free. The site also included several interactive Web 2.0 - focused elements, such as live Twitter feeds of the ‘#foreignpolicycamp’ hashtag and links to Facebook and other social media outlets.

My inspiration for the website, like the poster and logo, was to combine the enthusiasm of the open-source camp movement with more traditional foreign policy-style fonts and colours for an overall eye-catching, engaging tone. The website interface, along with all other camp graphics, will be released to the public domain as open source, Creative Commons-licensed documents sometime in 2010.

2 years ago 

NEON LOBSTERS: XHTML and CSS-based web design with a Tumblr CMS for a quirky youth-focused image sharing website — a simple, clean interface with a bold title and neon logo for group photo showcasing.

NEON LOBSTERS: XHTML and CSS-based web design with a Tumblr CMS for a quirky youth-focused image sharing website — a simple, clean interface with a bold title and neon logo for group photo showcasing.

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CSS, XHTML and Photoshop designed webpage for a student-run political science based website— students wanted it to look fresh and young while still legible for general public usage.

CSS, XHTML and Photoshop designed webpage for a student-run political science based website— students wanted it to look fresh and young while still legible for general public usage.

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About:

This site displays a sampling of my freelance writing, as well as design projects I have done for political parties, non-profits and NGO's in Vancouver and London. As KAiBRAY, i focus on graphic design, social media consulting and community coordination for social change-based organizations.

The goal? It might sound audacious, but I believe open source technologies have the potential to promote positive, enriching civil societies both locally and globally. My work aims to prove this in its own small way.

If you are interested in working together and want to hear testimonials from past clients, please get in touch via email or twitter.

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