• SENIOR DESIGN EDITOR || THE MANITOBAN
    109 Helen Glass, University of Manitoba
    2016 - 2020

  • Lead design team to produce 26 annual high-quality publications in collaboration with a diverse team of reporters, photographers, editors, and writers into a weekly newspaper with Adobe Indesign, Dropbox and InCopy.

  • Demonstrated a profound understanding of complex issues affecting marginalized individuals, communities, and businesses, ensuring inclusive representation grounded in critical thinking and ethics.

  • Designed and launched bold on-brand environmental campaign designs, posters, sell sheets and outreach campaign materials that increased in recruitment, contribution, and recognition across the city.

  • Executing tight deadlines, last minute changes and troubleshooting. Provided excellent ability in communicating and collaborating with creative solutions and projects while staying within budget.

  • Mediated and executed creative solutions to reach company goals with editorial staff and understood company goals and statement.

  • Managed consistency company’s graphic assets such as templates, brand books, logos, web, social media, and video content.

  • Created a supportive environment for junior team members to encourage career growth.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER || FINE FOODS ADVERTISING LTD.
33-101 Hutchings Street, Winnipeg, MB
2019 - 2022

  • Designed dynamic nationwide consumer good advertisement campaigns in collaboration with internal marketing teams and external stakeholders.

  • Autonomously and collaboratively worked to ensure the production of cohesive social media, digital and print advertisements, point of sale, events, including 104 flyer issues annually.

  • Provided product photography, photo editing, revisions, and resizing existing designs while understanding product packaging standards.

  • Managed and maintained print production and quality. Reported and mediated ideas with the Marketing and Creative directors, internal and external company vendors/stakeholders.

  • Proactively integrated accessible library system, enabling seamless adaptability of design components and templates at every stage of production, thereby optimizing workflow efficiency and precision.

  • Balanced creative thinking, feedback with time management on multiple tasks while meeting tight deadlines to ensure company objectives are met.

HELIOTROPE CREATIVE
Freelance Graphic Design
2016 - Present

  • Ace Art Inc. Gallery
    Collaborated with curators and exhibiting artists to create promotion print designs for shows such as brochure layouts and postcards. Delivered bilingual (English, French, Ojibwe) print designs using Adobe Indesign while meeting tight deadlines.

  • Pro-Public Health Campaign

    Created a strategic advocacy campaign alongside the provincial director that utilized typography and illustration with an excellent understanding of layout across platforms. Delivered a graphic standards package with flyers, social media templates and on-brand stationaries.

  • Ethereal Planes
    Collaborated with engineers to create android UI components for an Augmented-Reality App start up using Microsoft HoloLense. Orchestrated the creation of multi-platform branding designs for a US-based audience, encompassing landing page design, graphic identity, and visual mock-ups from concept to launch, in collaboration with engineers

SOFTWARE

COMMUNICATION

TECHNICAL

  • Editorial

  • Branding

  • Illustration

  • Infographic

  • Production

  • Typography

  • Photography

  • UI Design

  • Wireframe design

BACHELOR OF FINE ART

Graphics Design (Honours)

University of Manitoba School of Fine Art

EDUCATION

  • English (native)

  • Cantonese (Spoken)

  • French (Basic)

LANGUAGES

PROJECTS

NEWS CONSUMPTION

This project explores data visualization and design standards using Canadian news consumption data. It aims to create engaging visuals, analyzing trends and preferences. Multiple software applications are used to establish best practices in communication.