UX/UI
Graphic Design
Public Art
Hot Glass
About Me
I've been an award-winning professional artist and designer since 2005. In 2006 I co-founded and operated Bee Kingdom, a Calgary-based collaborative glassblowing studio that specialized in world-wide art exhibitions, retail, and custom client projects. In addition to being the graphic designer, I was the lead designer in charge of creating production series and working closely with clients to bring their ideas to life.
I am also trained in UX/UI and love the user-centric approach to design and applying my clean, colourful aesthetic to UIs.
As a designer my design super power is my vibrant colour palettes and playful, cute character designs. My mediums include hot glass, paint, inflatable fabric, and digital illustration. Digital tools of choice include Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop and Figma.
Education
UX Design, 2021
York University
This comprehensive course teaches core UX technical skills including the design thinking process, research methods, visual design, wireframing, prototyping, and industry applications.
Through real-world and hands-on projects, learn how design thinking relates to UX and explore the role it plays in ensuring innovations in technology continue to put people first. Gain core job skills employers are looking for, including logical problem solving, research skills and active communication.
BFA, 2001-2005
Alberta University for the Arts
This four year program focused on the design process, including ideation, analysis, critique, complex problem solving, research, and prototyping, to develop complete bodies of work. Other skills acquired including presentations, project proposals, grant submissions, team work, and staging exhibitions.
Exhibitions
BUMP (Beltline Urban Mural Projects)
Calgary, AB | 2021
DINOSAURS: A T-Rexhibition
The Sticky Tounge Gallery
Calgary, AB | 2006-present
Beakerhead
Calgary, AB | 2015-2019
The Saturnian and the
Fabulist installation
Tuponia: A Canadian Fantasy
Ruberto Ostberg Gallery
Calgary, AB | 2010
Magical Thinking
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Montreal, QC | 2009
Iconoclasts in Glass
Glenbow Museum
Calgary, AB | 2014
Pictoplasma’s Character
Portrait Show
Berlin, Germany | 2014
MARCO
Monterrey, Mexico | 2014
Saint Elisabeth Church
Berlin, Germany | April 2014
Berlin Glas e.V.
Berlin, Germany | 2012
Gold
Ruberto Ostberg Gallery
Calgary, AB | March 2014
Garage Montage
Art Gallery of Calgary
Calgary, AB | May - June 2013
Abracadabra
Glass Conference
Calgary, AB | May 2013
SUPERCUTE
Ruberto Ostberg Gallery
Calgary, AB | May June 2012
Natural Flow
Alberta Craft Council
Edmonton, AB | Oct - Dec 2011
Esplanade Gallery
Medicine Hat, AB | July - Aug 2011
Invasion: Pictoplasma
Nadania Idriss Gallery
Berlin, Germany | April 2011
Soft Power
Ruberto Ostberg Gallery
Calgary, AB | March 2011
Nadania Idriss Gallery
Berlin, Germany | Setp - Oct 2011
Cities
Katakouzenos House Museum
Athens, Greece | Oct, 2009
Nadania Idriss Gallery
Berlin, Germany | April 2009
The Works Festival
Edmonton, AB | March 2014
The Future is Later
Nadania Idriss Gallery
Berlin, Germany | Aug - Sept 2008
Art Gallery of Calgary
Calgary, AB | June 2008
Discovery Gallery at the Alberta Craft Council
Edmonton, AB | March 2008
Craft Biennale
Cheongju, South Korea | 2007
Awards & Honours
Avenue Magazine
Top 40 Under 40
2010
(Nominated again in 2018)
Alberta Craft Council Award
for Artistic Excellence
2012
Lieutenant Governor of
Alberta Emerging Artist
Award
2010
Nominated for Mayor’s
Evening for the Arts Award
2011
Nominated PACE Award in
Artistic Innovation
2010
Nominated for the
Telus Arts Award
2009
Collections
Watershed+ Program
Calgary Public
Art Collection
Calgary, Alberta
City of Calgary Municipal
Collection
Calgary, Alberta
Alberta Foundation for
the Arts, Povincial
Glass Collection
Calgary, Alberta
Tacoma Museum of Glass
Tacoma, WA
Private collectors in Germany, Australia, USA, and Canada
Publications
Ghost Stories YYC: Volume 1
Includes short story, Carton in the Woods, by R. Fairweather
Calgary, Alberta | 2019
Pictoplasma Portrait Exhibition
Berlin, Germany | 2014
The New Artisans 2
by Olivier Dupon for Thames and Hudson | 2015
Uppercase Magazine, Issue #17
Calgary, AB | 2013
Rooms Magazine, Issue #5
London, UK | 2011
Vorsicht Glas 200 - 2010 AD,
Survey of Islamic Glass
Berlin, Germany | 2010
Avenue Magazine, Fall Issue (cover for Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40)
Calgary, AB | July 2010
Legacy Magazine, Fall issue
2008
Calgary Herald, Real Life
Calgary, AB | August 2007
Avenue Magazine
Calgary, AB | April 2006
Swerve Magazine
Calgary, AB | April 2006
Western Living Magazine
June/July 2006