I’ve designed brands and produced films for national quick-service restaurants, heavy industry, consumer packaged goods, health, and agriculture.

Previously, I founded a content and design agency that won a Cannes Young Lion, a bronze Marketing Mag award, and two Junos in its first three years of existing. Our work spanned the gamut from music videos to national TVCs for human rights charities and high production value industrial films.

Today, I work in the architecture and design space as an image-maker and knowledge translation specialist with exceptional fluency in technical aspects of the built environment (Certified Passive House Designer), as well as film production, photography, and graphic design capabilities at a high level.

My wide ranging experience has afforded me the ability to work across communications and design in a way that is highly lateral and strategic, with a deep understanding of audiences, effective/affective reach, and production.

Accolades

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada David Thom Leadership Award

University of Toronto Student Leadership Award

JUNO Award, Best Music Video

William F. White Cinematography Award

Marketing Mag Bronze Award, Creative Direction

Universal Studios Canada Scholarship in Filmmaking

Clients

Apple Music / 4AD
Aesop
Anya Moryoussef Architect (AMA)
Bagel Stop
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect
Bento Sushi
Cognizant (Technology Solutions Corp)
Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile)
Egale Canada
Farmkart
Figureground Studio
Fit for Life
Foodbenders
Ha/f Climate Design
Hivestack
INS Market
Kupfert & Kim
Ontario Association of Architects
ODAMI
One Wood
People Design Co-Operative
PMA Landscape Architects
RBC Royal Bank
Safoura Zahedi
SHEEEP
Toronto Society of Architects
Toronto Metropolitan University School of Image Arts
Viola Ago

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