The Man Who Figured out How to Do Many Things At Once

Personal project, 2011 What’s your favorite super power? Flight? Strength? Invisibility? For as far back as I can remember, mine has had to do with time: I wish I could do two things at once. So I made this web comic/art piece about what that might be like. Read more

Website for Photographer Samuel James

I’m happy to launch a new website for documentary photographer Samuel A. James, an American working in Nigeria. The site runs the WordPress theme/plugin package I’ve dubbed “Carolyn”, after its initial commissioner, Carolyn Drake. The idea behind this package is to create a system that can be used to quickly deploy portfolio sites of a certain kind. Read more

Template Part Shortcode and Carolyn Google Analytics WordPress Plugins

I’ve released a couple more plugins to the WordPress plugin directory. They are the result of day-to-day maintenance on a variety of WordPress sites. Template Part Shortcode Template parts are reusable snippets of code stored in your theme directory. Normally, they are called by other template files using the get_template_part() function. Read more

Convenience Gallery

Web design and development, 2011—2 Convenience is a window gallery in Toronto. It’s a simple, modern space so, working with owners Scott Sorli and Flavio Trevisan, I created a website to match. Read more

AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize

Web development, 2009—10 The AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize is one of Canada’s largest purses for contemporary photography. Previous to 2013 it was known as The Grange Prize. While the short list is chosen by a panel of curators, the winner is decided by online public ballot. Read more

Art Gallery of Ontario

Web design and development, 2008—10 In 2008, designer Andrea Kreuger and I joined the AGO staff as the in-house web team. Active in strategy, process, workflow and project management, we drove improvement and change. We undertook a comprehensive redesign and redevelopment effort, interacting with all aspects of the institution to entirely re-think existing functionality, create new features and help to establish the Gallery’s social media presence. Read more

Toronto International Film Festival

Web design and development, 2007 I was only with TIFF for one year, but what a year! It was a tremendously creative environment and there wasn’t an aspect of the endeavor the web team didn’t touch. In addition to group collaboration on the big annual festival, each designer/developer had pet projects. Read more

Pleasure Dome Film & Video

Web design and development, 2006—present Pleasure Dome is a storied film and video exhibition collective in Toronto. Going to their screenings as a student was a foundational experience, and I was honored when they brought me on as their webmaster. My involvement began in 2006, when we created a new, WordPress-based website capable of housing 20+ years of archives (details here). Read more

Midi Onodera

Web design and development, 2006—present I’m involved in a long-standing collaboration with artist Midi Onodera, helping to realize Internet-video projects via her website, podcasts and in-gallery exhibitions. Pictured here is a touch screen interface, part of an exhibition at Concordia University, Montreal, that enabled access to Onodera’s 2009 project, Movie of the Week. Read more

Documentary Photographers

Web design and development, 2006—present Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of working with many amazing artists, including a number of talented and fearless globe-trotting photojournalists. A couple are pictured here, and you can find more posted under Photographers. Donald Weber Carolyn Drake Read more

Terminus 1525

Identity and web design, 2003 Terminus 1525 was a project of the Canada Council for the Arts aimed at teenage and young adult artists. It consisted of a nationwide festival of events and a Web 2.0-style website. I was brought into this project by zinc Roe Design to design the logo, the first version of the site and various icons and graphics. Read more

Wednesday Cooper

Personal project, 2001—05 Wednesday Cooper was my teen-angst, Flash-based web comic. In 2003 and 2004 I took it (or it took me, really) to SXSW Interactive. Read more