Vancouver Convention Centre

If you are a Vancouverite, you can take a free one hour guided tour of the Vancouver Convention Centre, just call them to check for available times. Team of designers from my company recently used the opportunity and visited this quite spectacular building in our neighbourhood. Many things are cool about the building: the architecture, …

Work

A short selection of designs from different projects and formats. For more artwork please browse the sections of the portfolio.  

Art of 2010 Olympic Closing

Made in Canada segment of the Closing Ceremony featured Canadian ephemera, souvenirs, symbols but BIG… and loud. Yes, these are all “beloved” Canadian stereotypes in Vegas/Monty Python kind of fusion. I did the design, directing (with choreography team) and a part of animation of the projected media for this segment that featured Michael Buble as …

Mon Pays boards

This is an act that, although well designed, directed and choreographed, didn’t get into the Vancouver Olympics Opening Ceremony. It is based on Gilles Vigneault’s song Mon Pays. The look of the motion graphics for the piece is inspired by Quebec painters Lemeiux, Barbeau, Borduas as well as NFB animators McLaren, Larkin, Leaf, Bochner etc. …

Vancouver Olympics Book

I am glad I was given a chance to design the Vancouver 2010 Opening Ceremony Program Book. The book is printed in black only with about a dozen spreads in black and silver. The motifs of each spread are graphically abstracted versions of any given segments, inspired by either the mood or the story of …

2010 Victory Ceremonies

In early 2009 I created a set of photoshop illustrations to describe daily medal ceremonies from BC Place. Overview of the stages and the lower and upper seating bowl.

2010 Cauldron

Cauldron is always the best kept secret during the preparation of the Olympic Ceremonies. Hopefully.. Here is the concept illustration…