In 2013, shortly after wrapping up four years at Phaidon Press and relocating to Vancouver, BC, I was recruited by Jonas Woost at CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) to design a new mobile-first website for CBC Music.

After designing an initial proof of concept, launching a minimum viable product, and advocating for a more cohesive design experience across all of CBC Music’s touchpoints, I was promoted to lead the design team.

In eight years at CBC I’ve been responsible for leading the design of several ground-up, audience-facing apps and websites, including CBC Listen, CBC Music (two or three times,) and ICI Musique. Often embedded within multiple product development teams, and sometimes operating independently, my responsibilities have spanned all aspects of the design and product development lifecycle, from brand and editorial, to interface, interaction, research, and testing.

CBC Listen launched in 2019. The overarching design principles that I applied to the product included: Mobile first design; Responsive design; Platform agnostic design; and Iterative design.

Since 2019 I’ve been working with journalists, photographers, illustrators, and web developers at CBC to produce new forms of visual journalism, in subjects ranging from entertainment and current affairs, to local and national news.

In late 2020, I teamed up with CBC Saskatoon journalist Omayra Issa, and CBC Radio host Ify Chiwetelu to lead the design of Black on the Prairies: a multi-platform project exploring the past, present and future of Black Prairie life, which launched in April, 2021.

My role on Black on the Prairies spanned all aspects of the look and feel of the project, from brand identity and responsive web page design, to photo direction, editing, and contributing to supplementary marketing materials.

Jumping further back in time: In 2016, while leading a small design team towards a unified design system for CBC Music and ICI Musique, I created a new visual identity for CBC Music’s growing selection of playlists. Since then, and in between other projects, I’ve continued to develop the format, which features four individual album covers, contained within a circle — reminiscent of vinyl records, compact discs, and iPod’s click wheel — and immersed within a dynamic blur, which is unique to each playlist, while providing aesthetic continuity between all of CBC Music’s playlists.

Variations on the playlist identity include the introduction of a gold ring and glistening ‘snow’ for Christmas; a red-white-red gradient ring for all Canadian playlists; and a special one-off variation featuring the rainbow flag for CBC Music’s Pride playlist.

Early in 2020, Lakshine Sathiyanathan, Jennifer Van Evra, and I published Changing Chinatown, a long-form web feature telling a visual story of how businesses are saving the heritage of Vancouver’s Chinatown through food. The project featured photography by Maggie MacPherson, Ben Nelms, and me.

In 2019, to mark a decade of Drake’s career, Jesse Kinos-Goodin, Melody Lau, and the team at CBC Music published Drake’s Toronto, a long-form web feature mapping the artist’s history in his hometown. The project featured illustrative collaborations by Ben Shannon (line art) and me (colour and montage.)

I’m planning to add new and old work to this page. In the meantime, if you’d like to chat, send me an email, or take a look at my earlier work at Phaidon Press and Wallpaper* Magazine.