Standing Room Only
2024

Suite 22

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Standing Room Only is a year-end celebration for the furniture and interior design company Suite 22. Held at a standing venue for a limited 40 people, the main illustration features the progessive deconstruction of a chair across the accordian pages. 
           
Design for 35”x5.5” accordian invitation, 7 pages.
Designed at Biography.

Designers: Abhay Kalsi, Ben Luu, Marlo Onilla
Copywriting: Matthew Onilla

Produced by Print.Paper.Production

City of Words
2024

George Brown College
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How has the city shaped us as individuals? It has shown us what it means to be apart of a community. It has made us aware of many realities and hardships. And it has given us a voice to advocate for ourselves and the things we believe in.

The George Brown College Class of ‘24 convocation mural was designed to accompany GBC’s recent “City is our classroom” advertising campaign. It combines typographic messaging with familiar landmarks across the school’s three campuses. 

20’x10’ mural displayed outside Meridian Hall in Toronto




Computers are like People
2024

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Type Design 
Editorial
Motion
Identity Computers are like People is a variable typeface and publication that explores the relationship between computers and people.
            The typeface merges the modular components of a pixel-based human-made typeface, with a rounded AI-generated rounded typeface to create a new system of letterforms that expresses the intertwined relationship between the computers and people.
            Likewise, the recto-verso publication Computers are like People is split into two halves Computers and People. The two halves contain stories revolving around the two factions.

Variable typeface
  • 3 weights
  • 1 variable axis
  • over 100 glyphs including numerals, symbols and emojis
Type interface coded in Processing.js
36 page recto-verso publication with silver foil cover

Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival: 27th Edition
2023

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“The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival® is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from the Asian diaspora. Works include films and videos by Asian-identifying artists in Canada, the U.S., Asia and all over the world. As Canada’s largest Asian film festival, Reel Asian® provides a public forum for Asian media artists and their work, and fuels the growing appreciation for Asian cinema in Canada.“
        — Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival

On deciding on the theme “Flower Pot”:  I wanted the name to be a play on the term “Melting Pot” but instead of promoting togetherness through homogeneity, I wanted it to be through diversity, a “flower pot” if you will.

Festival Creative DirectionFestival Poster
Festival Postcard
84 page Festival Program Guide
Festival Title Sequence
Festival Tote Bag

ALKALINE
2023

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ALKALINE is a magazine concept about precious metals and minerals. Each issue focuses on a singular material and examines its functions, uses, and through the features, further expands into the cultural, historical, and social background. 
            The magazine is split into two sections of articles: Properties, which focuses on the highlighted element, its history, alchecmical properties, refinement processes etc. Feautures which expands upon the element through any manner of word association.  
           Issue 1 of ALKALINE is themed around silver. It explores the topics of silversmithing, the lost Sevso silver treasure, silver antiquing and ‘silver’ architecture for the aging population. 


Innervzm II
2023

RAAYS
Leaving Records
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“Innervzm II, a companion to 2022’s Innervzm, is a sprawling, meditative collection from Los Angeles-based producer, drummer, and sound architect, Raays. The EP’s title derives from a conversation between Raays and Leaving labelmate Deantoni Parks regarding “archeology of self” as a creative methodology. Innervzm, as a concept, connotes the kind of soul work that necessarily precedes and renders outward action possible, meaningful, and effective. ”
       —Leaving Records

Digital and physical album release for Innervzm II, with artist RAAYS and Leaving Records
  • Digital Illustrations
  • Animated Spotify Canvases
  • YouTube visualizers
  • Cassette packaging
  • Tour poster, Visuals, T-shirt


Moving, Dancing, Knowledge
2023

Hart House U of T

University of Toronto Institute of Dance Studies
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“The Moving, Dancing, Knowledge series engaged learning communities within and beyond the university to highlight dance scholarship and practice, the role of dance and movement in physical and mental well-being, and the considerations of dance as both an artistic and activist form that embodies intersecting identities. Building from “Dance Beyond Performance,” a panel hosted in 2020 by the Institute for Dance Studies and the Well Being Collective at Hart House, this exhibit shares key insights from dance scholars, artists, and activists working within the University of Toronto.“
       —Hart House
           
Design for thirteen 18”x24” exhibition panels for print. Selected panels animated digitally.

Exhibition Curator: Jose Miguel Esteban
Series Producer: Seika Boye
Series Co-Producer: Jessica Rayne
Series Co-Producer: Elif Izikozlu
Exhibition Designer: Ben Luu



SPACE
2021

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SPACE was originally founded as a place where beginner dancers and non-dancers could experiement and discover freestyle dance in a safe and welcoming environment. Originally taking place in College Park, Toronto, the mark is constructed of fragmented pieces of the College Park’s geographical map, symbolizing the deconstruction of barriers that often ostricize and allienate people who are new to freestyle dance.

Animated logo for SPACE, a dance initiative and reguarly occurring dance session founded by Clare Wang.