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The needs of a client often go beyond just good art for their product or service - it often includes the incorporation of other visual and/or audio media. And it all has to be technically compatible, subjectively coherent
and overtly compelling.
Besides designing every conceivable form and style of graphics, Gnu Ink’s background includes copywriting, writing, producing and editing for TV & video, directing photoshoots, designing opening film credits and mixing & producing soundtracks.
Gnu Ink understands the role of good art within the big picture - and delivers with style & affordability.
OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE
OFFICE CONDOMINIUM PROJECT:
Time Equities Inc (Manhattan, New York) & Nova Ridge Developments (Toronto)
ROLE art director, designer,
art production manager
• 'beauty shot' custom image work
• Sales Booklet
• Posters
• Sell Sheets
• Website
• over 100 floor plans
• photography
PROJECT OUTCOME
1670 Bayview Ave sold
for almost double its purchase price within 3 years
PACKAGING DESIGN:
ROLE design, creative, production
Jay’s Choice Tahini Label for 18kg bucket. Also designed logo. Four other Jay’s Choice product labels designed to date.
Eco-Craze Cartons & logo for eco-friendly food containers. 60 cartons to date.
Canada Poultry Package for breaded chicken products. Packages designed for 4 products in this line.
Spartano Floor Pro label for one of a series of cleaning supplies. Designed Spartano logo. 12 products to date.
Canfoil one-off design for discount foil roll.
Red Dragon Spring Rolls packages 2 sizes - 25g & 50g.
POPPA Gs Chicken Products Box Labels for 16 different products to date.
WITHNAIL & I produced by George Harrison’s Handmade Films. Designed over 300 DVD & VHS movie covers.
KAFE DUKA One-off package & logo for imported coffee.
COFFEE CUPS Custom designed cups for Toronto café.
DIGITAL MAGAZINE Sold thru iTunes Newsstand
Celebrate the coming New Year by downloading this new independent tablet-only magazine...
lots of interesting content. This is one magazine that will remain in my Newsstand.
D.B. Hebbard, Talking New Media
• Co-founder
• Designed masthead
• Designed and laid out every page
• Editor - Writer
• Production Manager
Slice AH Life YouTube music channel
Unique compilations and classic singles new & old, turbo remixed with Adobe Logic. Spanning the late 60s to today, Slice AH Life mixes multiple genres of great, mostly non-mainstream music into continuous-play enjoyment.
Enjoy Gnu Ink's YouTube Music Channel Slice AH Life, which has logged over 3000 hours of listening time by music lovers from 30 different countries.
PRINT MAGAZINE WORK:
ROLE art director, designer, production manager, copy editor, writer
"The scope has expanded to include more content from beyond our borders.
It’s a magazine that keeps getting better and better." - Greg Clow, Beer, Beats & Bites
7 years & 28 issues
• Print magazine sold across Canada
& in 22 U.S states
• Designed masthead
• Art Director - Designed every page
• Copy Editor - Writer
• Production Manager
• all art for Canadian Brewing Awards
WOW! & CELEBRATIONS MAGAZINES: Wedding, Fashion & Lifestyle
I produced these magazines for East Indian Canadian publishers based in Toronto & Vancouver. They had 15,000
of each printed in India and shipped to Canada for distribution to Canada's sizeable South East Asian community.
Each issue was over 115 pages.
• Designed mastheads
• Art Director
• Designed and laid out every page
• Production Manager
• Editor - Writer
• Created 30+ full page ads for advertisers
VARIOUS: Assorted Projects & Clientele
Ontario's largest Cash & Carry
with 7 southern Ontario locations
• Building decor • Logo • Signage • Monthly flyers • eMail blasts
• Brochures & Postcards • Catalogues • product art for Website & Amazon
• Reverse Margin logo
• Brochures & Sell Sheets
• Posters & Trade Show Oversize Art
• Technical Illustrations & Custom Photoshop work
• Production Manager
Comprehensive art campaign to promote a new, healthier system of Crown & Abutment Dental Implants
NATIONAL FILM BOARD of CANADA
• Posters
• Sell sheets
• Postcards
• DVD covers & labels
Over 15 campaigns
