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About

A Canadian creative director, copywriter and designer developing brand identities and strategies for impact-driven initiatives – one idea at a time. 🌎

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Influences —

Aaron Draplin
Takashi Murakami
Frank Ocean
Vanessa Beecroft
Stefan Sagmeïster
Karel Martens
Herb Lubalin
Paula Scher

 

Loves —

Metal Gear Solid
Tatsuro Yamashita
Typography
Grid Systems
My Parents
Pantone 18-3838
Dutch Modernism
Coffee

@elaquent is the first artist I’ve had the chance to work with and document over the years, and it’s been a pleasure. My style and output has changed as an artist over the years, and so has his - so in a sense, it feels like having a crea
Not every portrait needs to be shot at 1.4. That’s the caption. *Portraits taken a ways back of the founders of an amazing startup idea called SheCycle (who are some of the nicest people I’ve taken portraits of). At the time, I was real
One thing I’m trying to learn more about this year is lighting setups; here’s some experimentation from la portrait shoot last year for a mental health campaign. À la Helmut Newton, I’m mostly someone who shoots in natural l
An oldie, but one of my favourites. I miss shooting portraits. 🎈
Floppy disk ideation/mock-up of a Kraftwerk album, “Man-Machine”. And if you don’t know who Kraftwerk is, do your Googles.
My friend @vasdoesstuff likes video games, and I like my friend Vas, and someone told me recently I was too serious, so I decided to design a game called “VASQUEST” to address all of that, where the quest is existential in nature and the
A design reinterpretation/ode to “It Is.” by @jmsn - an album that hit me so hard, in the best way possible when I first heard it.* *Cruel Intentions still gets me. Every time.
#Saturday morning, coffee-fuelled, 7AM design and type exploration. 📚
 
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Ryan Antooa Portrait – Cara Chapman

My journey as a creative director has been percolating from the moment my father handed me a Yashika 35mm film camera as a child; my journey as a copywriter began when I moved to Vancouver, BC, for two years; my journey as a designer (truly) began the second I stepped foot in the Emily Carr School of Art and Design and fell in love with logos, grids, and shapes.

I am obsessed with the visual world. 🌎

I am and have always been the type of person to admire typography – even before I knew what it was. I am the wanderer who travels to cities and parts unknown only with a camera, pen, and notebook in-hand to sketch, observe, and listen.

If anything, I am grateful to be able to write, design, shoot, and provide creative direction for a living, crafting brand identities and brand strategies for impact-driven companies.

If you are reading this, know that my story as a creative director, graphic designer, and writer is still unfolding – and that I would love for you to be a part of it.

My visual work is inspired by a variety of influences – contemporaries like James Jean, Takashi Murakami, Es Devlin, and Aaron Draplin to name a few – and traditional – like Saul Bass, Paula Scher, Tibor Kalman, and Massimo Vignelli. I am an amorphic product of the Internet-age, equal parts the teachings of “Hey Whipple, Squeeze This!” and Travis Scott’s “Astroworld”.

I’m über easy to get a hold of, I love coffee, and I’d love to chat with you about how we can develop your next idea. ☕️

 
Trisha Abe – Channel Blue – Book Cover