Identity design & photography
filamentdesign.ca

Filament is the furniture design and fabrication practice of Joseph Band. Using a mixture of steel and reclaimed wood, Joseph creates home furnishings that complement these combinations of materials in their raw form. Some of his works also include locally found antiques from which he draws his inspiration to create new compositions. The identity, photography, and website design for this project was assembled to reflect the craftman’s contemporary and minimalist aesthetic.

Creative direction
charcuterie.party

Working alongside editors Bopha Chaay, Steffanie Ling, and Eli Zibin, I continue to work as creative director of “Charcuterie,” a small, multi-format periodical on experimental and contemporary art literature. The magazine strives to provide a forum for experimental art writing and informed polemics without pedantry. It assembles a polyphony of inquiry and documents the messy landscape of opinion and critique that unravels in close proximity to where we work, live, and make art in Vancouver.

Gallery identity system
Presentation House Gallery

In 2017, Presentation House Gallery will be launching their new space located in the heart of The Shipyards district of North Vancouver. Developed during my time at Information Office, the studio was tasked with developing a holistic identity system in re-branding Presentation House Gallery as “The Polygon.”

Creative Direction: Derek Barnett
Studio: Information Office

Book design
SFU Galleries

“Negative Space: Orbiting Inner and Outer Experience” is the second collection of writings in SFU Galleries’ Critical Reader Series. Edited by Antonia Hirsch, the book includes contributions, interviews, and reproduced texts by Theodor Adorno, Lorna Brown, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Elena Filipovic, François Laruelle, Olaf Nicolai, Lisa Robertson, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Wolfgang Winkler. The composition and typography are a continuation of the graphic elements designed by Information Office for the first publication of this series, “The Bells: Damian Moppett.”

Creative Direction: Derek Barnett
Studio: Information Office

Experimental art books & risograph leaflets
Independent Study

“Original/Replica” is a collection of documents mining the ontology of the artifact—an attempt in actualizing Boris Groys’ theories on the installation of art documentation as a performance of making originals out of copies. I chose one artwork by Toronto-based artist Jessica Vallentin and commissioned her to make an exact replica of the piece. I then documented my findings within two books which record the historical, cultural, and social sites both objects occupied throughout my study. The documents are both orginal representations of Vallentin’s artworks, yet they are almost indistinguishable when removed from their silk-screened, poly-bag packaging.

Artist edition package design
Red Bull 381 Projects

Packaging design for artist editions by Cedric Bomford for his solo exhibition “Tower Block” at Red Bull 381 Projects in September 2009. The inside display was designed to accommodate delicate porcelain nails of unique shape and size. Each edition was cast from a nail found on the building site of the ambitious installation. The die-cut edge of the package lid was designed to mimic the angular panelling and window design of Bomford’s observation tower.

Conceptual booklet/poster
Created in collaboration with Aimee Burnett

A collaborative project with Aimee Burnett, “Feuilleton” is a pamphlet and poster designed from peculiar inquiries into historical accidents. This particular document presents a narrative investigating the nature of product recalls, mining the procedures surrounding the rescindment of the faulty pitman arm in the steering mechanisms of the 1959 and 1960 Ford Cadillacs. Our reconstruction, or investigative staging, of this object recall serves to highlight the automobile as a catalyst at the intersection of religion, nationalism, and economics.

An index of artist multiples
Independent Study

An extension of my curiosity with object-oriented ontology, “Editions” employs multiple processes of cataloguing cultural artifacts—more specifically artist multiples. I believe artist editions occupy a peculiar social space between art and design. Drawing on Bill Brown’s Thing Theory, which investigates the way that “things” seem to elude systems of semantic classification, I deterritorialized each edition and prompted viewers to engage with these objects in a multiplicity of ways and outside of their art-specific context.

Exhibition Catalogue
Vancouver Art Gallery

Accompanying the 2018 exhibition "Bombhead" at the Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by John O'Brian, this booklet serves as a small catalogue of this thematic exhibition exploring the nuclear age. Featuring contemporary artists alongside both pre- and postwar works, this catalogue was designed to contextualize the exhibition inside a facsimile of literature disseminated by the Canadian Emergency Measures Organization in the 1960s. Using illustrations from the original government-issued booklets, this piece was designed to demonstrate O'Brian's unique curatorial vision within an object that looks as though it belongs within the display cases of the exhibit itself.

Creative Direction: Derek Barnett & Jonathan Middleton
Studio: Information Office

Festival Catalogue
Capture Photography Festival

The 2018 Capture Photography Festival catalogue is a 160-page magazine detailing all of the city-wide exhibitions, events, and programming for this ambitious festival. Capture is an annual not-for-profit Festival that strives to nurture emerging talent, engage community, and spark public dialogue about photography as vessel for communication and expression. The 2018 catalogue was designed to always privilege the artists' works—bringing imagery to the fore and sometimes even overlapping typography. The catalogue had to be accessible to a wide range of audiences while maintaining a contemporary sensibility towards photography as a significant and impactful art form.