Academic Work · 2016–2024
School Design Projects
Editorial layout, branding and logo exploration, and presentation studies produced across two design programs — consolidated here as one body of academic work rather than scattered individual pieces.
Overview
Before any client or employer work, there were two programs' worth of exercises — typography, layout, branding, and presentation — that built the foundation everything since has stood on.
This page brings together the coursework previously shown as several separate portfolio entries — editorial layouts, logo studies, out-of-home advertising, and presentation/compositing exercises — into one place. It's academic work, not client work: assignments, briefs, and self-directed studies produced during a DEP in Graphic Design and an AEC in Graphic & Web Design. Grouped together, it reads less like a list of unrelated pieces and more like what it actually was — two years of structured, hands-on training in the fundamentals.
Schools & programs
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2016–2018
Graphic Design DEP
Centre Bernard-Gariépy (CBG) — Sorel-Tracy
Foundational training in design craft, typography, and the discipline of layout. Visit the school's site →
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2023–2024
Graphic & Web Design AEC
John Abbott College
Digital methods, web fundamentals, and contemporary visual communication. Visit the school's site →
Editorial, print & layout
Typography and grid exercises applied to real formats — a newsletter, an event ticket, out-of-home advertising, and a promotional flyer.
Branding & logo exploration
Identity studies — wordmarks, monograms, and logo concepts across different fictional briefs, plus a packaging exercise for a confectionery brand.
Presentation, mockups & composite work
Presentation and compositing exercises — placing finished work into realistic scenes, and standalone photo-manipulation studies practicing the same layering and lighting skills.
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What these programs taught me
- Typography and grid discipline before anything else — most of what looks like "style" later is really structure done right first.
- Logo and identity work benefits from generating many directions before narrowing — quantity of exploration, then ruthless selection.
- Presentation matters as much as the design itself: a strong concept in a weak mockup reads as a weak concept.
- Two different programs, two different emphases — CBG's craft-first foundation and John Abbott's digital/web layer — gave me a more complete toolkit than either alone would have.