Category Archives: Graphic Design and Illustration

Virtual Reality Series: Kelp Types & Zonation

Virtual reality ocean ecosystem created in Photoshop for the UBC Faculty of Earth and Ocean Systems, using real textures, few of my photographs taken from the beach, Photoshop paint brushes, bits and pieces, adjustment tools. I’ve used the same photo montage as in my previous posts, whereas this time the emphasis is on the types of kelp.

Chocolate Coins from Dean Daniel

Chocolate coin peeling sticker design - superimposing a face onto a gold coin
The idea of superimposing Sauder dean’s profile photograph on a virtual gold coin, adding the custom embossed text and then ordering metallic peeling stickers for the chocolate gifts has proven to be a much more elegant and appalling choice instead of having the face contour embossed in metallic foil, to immitate a gold coin. I’ve inspired myself from one of my older fun projects  (see the 2nd gold coin in the image). It is in fact a photograph of  two people I took during a professional event. Click to enlarge.

Learning Japanese Course – Caricature Set

Hand-drawn caricatures for a Japanese online course
I’ve custom hand-drawn these caricatures for a Japanese Online course. They were meant to describe different physical appearances and actions. These are just some of the visuals designed for the Japanese courses which have won the “Award of Excellence in Education” from Canadian Network of Innovation in Education.

Virtual Soil Labs

Soil Contaminants virtual composition. It might look like a panoramic photograph, which was in fact the exact intent, except that the image you see here was composed in Photoshop by merging and heavily tweaking at least 7 unrelated photographs followed by adding realistic textures and objects (e.g. the puddles of water, the different soil structures, the tractors, the house, the airplane, etc.). This composition along with other graphic design and multimedia creations have won the award for Excellence and Innovation in Graphic Design from CNIE/RCIE.

George – The Lambeosaurus

Mesozoic Earth - Time of the Dinosaurs
Since George the dinosaur (Lamberosaurus to be more specific) is so famous already, I have extracted ‘him’ from the museum’s wall (masked out in Photoshop) and came up with this design for an Earth & Ocean Sciences online course. I’ve then put together a course navigation icon set to match the look and feel.