~ CONCEPT & CREATIVE DIRECTION
~ ART DIRECTION OF
ILLUSTRATION/PHOTOGRAPHY
~ MASTHEAD DESIGN
~ DESIGN/LAYOUT
~ BILINGUAL TEXT LAYOUT
~ TEMPLATE DESIGN
~ IMPLEMENTATION
~ PRINT MANAGEMENT
I work with publishers/editors/clients to develop the concept and creative direction for printed publications and books guided by marketing research (supplied by the client). Over a series of stages, beginning with concepts and initial mood boards, I develop the templates and layouts, and manage pre-press and print handling. I have strong relationships with several preferred printing firms in Hong Kong. Please see some freelance contract projects I’ve worked on displayed here.
I have also worked on-site in contract and on-staff capacities at these companies, amongst others:
- Discovery, Cathay Pacific airline’s
inflight magazine
- Hong Kong Tatler
- South China Morning Post
- News Custom Publishing
- Fairfax Business Media
- Fairfax Media.
~ CONCEPT & CREATIVE DIRECTION
~ DESIGN & LAYOUT
~ ART DIRECTION OF
ILLUSTRATION/PHOTOGRAPHY
I create digital and printed marketing collateral for companies and organisations – developing concepts, creative direction and design.
Please see some projects I’ve worked on displayed here.
~ DATA ANALYSIS
~ MAPS, GRAPHS & CHARTS
~ CONCEPT, DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Early on in my career I was an employee of Fairfax Business Media in Melbourne and translated Bloomberg financial data into graphs and charts. In Hong Kong, as a staff member of the South China Morning Post’s graphics team I created illustrative information graphics. More recently I’ve worked with Fidelity International presenting sketched visual concepts for graphics, building the files in Adobe Illustrator, editing as needed and resizing for various digital formats while adhering to the Fidelity International brand style guide.
~ CONCEPT
~ DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION
I create illustrative work in a range of styles from enhanced photo collages in Photoshop to cute simple icons drawn in Illustrator for editorial, communications agencies and design studios.
~ ILLUSTRATION & ART
~ INSTAGRAM @AHOYVISUALART
‘Ahoy’ is the moniker I use for my visual art practice which I began in 2015. Since then my commercial clients have included Adobe, New York Times, Slurpee 7-Eleven, Fast Company magazine, Beat Bites and Turner, amongst others. I was named one of Adobe’s Global Creators in 2021.
My paintings have exhibited with the following galleries: Outré, Beinart, Corey Helford, Dorothy Circus, the Wassaic Project, BSMT Space and KochxBos in Melbourne, LA, Rome, New York, London and Amsterdam respectively. My work was featured in the April 2019 print edition of Hi-Fructose Contemporary Art magazine.
My Ahoy work informs my design in the way of software and social media trends. Please see more here:
~ CONCEPT & STORYBOARD
~ 2D ANIMATION IN AFTER EFFECTS
~ 2D AUGMENTED REALITY
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My Ahoy art practice has allowed me to play with animation and augmented reality using my characters and has led to other animation projects.
Highlights include:
- gifs for Slurpee 7-Eleven
- 60 sec animation for Beat Bites
- animation tutorial for Adobe
- AR for Artivive apps’ clients
- AR for Window Wonderlands in Toronto
Thanks for viewing!