To Love The Bee Gees - A Tribute to the Brothers Gibb is a 2015 release that I designed and illustrated the album artwork and poster insert for this USA compilation release featuring Mary Margaret O'Hara, Isobel Cambpell (Belle & Sebastian), Emitt Rhodes, Dylan Gardner, Brazzaville, The Boy Joys, SheLoom, Martin Carr, Low Leaf, Kinky, Myron & E, The Silver Seas, Jess Delgado and more. It also includes an essay written by David Wild.

Wanderlust Wishing Well is my second full length solo album which is on vinyl and CD. Shown here is the vinyl edition with printed inner sleeve and a translucent two tone blue vinyl. I designed and illustrated the artwork except the painting of me I commissioned Antonella Sigismondi to create. I worked with a few photographers as well to accomplish the images of me underwater, with wolves, a fox, a skunk, and my dog. For the limited edition, I designed wishing coins as shown. 

I designed this album art, creating a visual fantasy world which depicts the story told within the song lyrics. The band is Alpha Lighting System, a young Mexico City based progressive rock trio. The album is entitled, Walking On An Earlthlike Planet. It was great fun to work on interpreting the music and my clients were more than pleased. 

This is Dave Kerzner's New World release which came in various formats. I designed the album artwork and booklets for the standard and deluxe editions, the bonus disk of outtakes and the booklet for the box set. Each page features digital artwork tailored to the individual songs. I also created several music videos based on these visual interpretations for promotion and live concert projections.

The first track, Stranded which I created a lyric video for and co-directed and edited the official video was nominated for Best Rock Anthem by Prog Magazine's Progressive Music Awards in England and also received a Hamilton Music Award nomination for Best Album Art in Canada.

This is a 2015 promotional postcard that I created, collaged and photo manipulated like I do for many projects and clients. It was included in the Dave Kerzner New World limited edition CD box set.

I designed the album art for my 2012 debut independent solo album release entitled, Tapping Trees In A Trinket Box Of Treasure. Also shown is the limited edition series I created featuring hand sewn sleeve with bunting flag detailing and acrylic on balsa wood artwork. 

The artwork collectively tells a story that goes like this: On the cover, I am curtsying and the back cover is who and what I am curtsying to. There are buds growing from roses that are breaking off from the ground and floating upwards into the sky to outer space. I perform that evening to the creature guests who are present including zebras, bongos, nyalas, kudu, quetzal, fireflies and my pups. As I perform from within the wagon on a tiny stage that earlier you can see off in the distance, the song travels through space along with the floating flowers and trees. The disk is a slice of tree, showing one that time does play history, the present and future through music.

This album won a Hamilton Music Award for Best Album Art and the music received two nominations from the Independent Music Awards for Most Eclectic Song and Hamilton Music Awards for Best Adult Alternative. 

My Heart Has Been Broken By One Unfit To Name is a single two track lathe cut release for music I was commissioned to create for a Lynchian inspired indie film made in the UK. The screenwriter wrote the lyrics for me to adapt to music. To document the music, I released this single independently on a very limited edition lathe cut and designed the artwork as shown. The song is melancholic and so I wanted to create visuals that would compliment the dramatic tragic heartbreak depicted.

This is the 2011 single artwork that I designed and art directed for my Christine Leakey - Lovely Lullabies & Apple Pies release.

Carlin - Cabana is a 2015 single release that I designed for a Canadian hiphop/RnB artist.

Yitka is a Czech born and raised folk music artist now residing in Canada. I designed and illustrated and photo edited the artwork for Yitka - Diplomatic Dream, a 2011 independent Canadian album release. Her son photographed her in an abandoned home and I pulled the wall paper from the background and carried it throughout the design theme and colour palette. I also edited her dress which was originally tie dye that competed too much with the composition and patterns surrounding her.

In 2007, Mark Wirtz asked me to design an album cover for Me by Zion De Gallier which he produced during the 1960s when he was an EMI/Abbey Road Studios producer and composer. This psychedelic pop song had never been properly released however Mark expressed an interest to release the single on vinyl 45.

The Double Feature Creatures was a girl band that I formed when I graduated Graphic Design and completed post-grad studies in 3D Animation as well as Interactive Multimedia. Years after the band recorded and broke up, I released this archive of our music in 2005 entitled, ‘Return!’ on Teen Sound Records in Italy. I designed and illustrated the album artwork. You may listen to the album here where it is also available for purchase: thedoublefeaturecreatures.bandcamp.com

In 2002, I designed the album art for this three CD set of classical Indian music from Texas: Sri Ramakrishna Sarada Bhajan Mandali. I was provided the illustrations of the people/gods and from there I incorporated fabrics and kept the colour palettes to match the provided artwork. 

As a contracted Senior Interactive Designer at Corus in 2009-2010, it was my task to design the Nickelodeon Canada website. I worked with basic wireframes and the On Air department provided a few station identification shorts for reference. From there I pulled elements together and added my own flare which resulted in a very playful and highly successful website that received a great review at the end of the fiscal year and is still active today which you may view here: nickcanada.com

DUSK was a thriller and suspense television station under the Corus Entertainment umbrella that replaced the horror channel, Scream TV. This was my first project when Corus contracted me in 2009-2010. My role was to design the entire website from wireframes and very little branding to work with. For the first time at Corus, On Air used design elements from the Interactive department which I created for the site. It was a proud moment for the team and the site received a great review at the end of the fiscal. In 2012, DUSK was discontinued so that Corus could make room for ABC Spark.

“Christine enthusiastically took on the design of a new specialty channel website that had a still-vague brand identity and no graphic assets for her to work with. Despite these challenges she did a fantastic job translating the “look and feel” of this undefined brand into a solid and stylish website (www.DUSKtv.ca).” - Karen Wilkinson, Interactive Producer, Corus Entertainment, 2010

In addition to designing the DUSK TV website, I also designed the online ads for the channel and eNewsletters. Here is one of several examples. 

Experts Search 2010 was a show featured on W Network. While on contract at Corus Entertainment in 2009-2010, my design was pitched along with concepts by the rest of the full-time Interactive team. The stakeholders and executives chose my concept and so I designed the entire site. I only had the show title and photographs of the people shown to work with where I then created a military and girl guide inspired theme throughout. At the end of the fiscal year, this along with DUSK and Nick were three of the four web projects celebrated by the team. It was a proud moment for me, especially being a contractor.

Another fun website that I designed while on contract at Corus. This was through Treehouse TV and my task was to design an online party package site where one could choose from a party theme or customize their own and print out the whole party package. I designed how the site would navigate and function and worked with an illustrator who developed the characters within the various party themes. 

For YTV, I designed many monthly ‘spike’ pages which would feature program listings in creative ways to attract a younger audience to the website. For this spike page, I was provided raw copy and direction to create a Game Drop Wednesday which is similar to a Christmas calendar where each day revealed a new game release in November 2009. I chose to design the page with an early 80s video game inspired theme which YTV loved and continued to use graphic elements from this for other portions of the site. 

Here is another example of one of many monthly ‘spike’ pages that I created for the YTV website. Corus wanted an April Fools and Easter combined theme. With provided copy, I designed the theme to blend with the YTV brand.

Here are a few Corus Entertainment website examples where I designed elements for an existing site or designed an updated version for the new television season. For Viva I created the main stacked banner elements along the left column; For March Break I created the portraits and the Daily Challenge insert as well as layout; For The Next Star, I designed the 2010 season which was similar in design to the previous season. 

Here are a couple of sample backgrounds that I designed for the YTV site in 2010.

A banner design that I created for the Babar website via Treehouse TV which was a new Corus site in 2010. I loved Babar when I was a little girl so it was sweet to create this one. I created the edges based on Babar's chair and chose the imager for the ad.

I created the website for 80s major label metal rocker, Marc Ferrari (KEEL, Pantera, Cold Sweat, Medicine Wheel, Wayne's World, MasterSource). Marc wanted a website with an easy to read, clean and simple layout that featured his various projects and passions. You may view it here: www.marcferrari.com

Here are some screen shots from the Steel City Pro Wrestling website that I designed where I drew inspiration from 80s wrestling on TV and superhero comics. You may view it here: steelcityprowrestling.com

Trust Realty Group is a Toronto based real-estate firm. I designed their website along with its sub-sites for the various agent pages which are linked on the team's page. The client wanted a colourful yet cleverly clean layout and so voila! Happy clients, happy designer. 

While at BMO as a Senior Web Designer, I designed the bilingual pages for this Investorline youth web campaign meant to target 25-35 year olds. I created the photo manipulated images and the game layout as well as the overall layout with icon designs. Also shown are the alternate concepts I had created during the development.

I designed the bilingual online presence for the Buenos Aires National Sales Conference for BMO Insurance.

Here is another sample of a BMO Investorline online campaign that I designed. 

Here are a couple of ecard samples that I created for BMO Insurance and BMO Financial Group. 

This was a lovely yoga garment online catalog that I created in Flash back in 2009. Each page swept over a large colourful background that created beautiful fluid continuity from page to page. 

While at Questrade as Senior Digital Designer, I created various layouts for the web pages and designed online banner ads as shown here. 

I created several pages and components within the U Weight Loss Clinic website between 2007-2008. Here are a few examples. 

This is an E Newsletter design that I created for Clear Medicine at the time of its inception. I also designed the Clear Medicine logo as well as some business and sales collateral pieces for Dr. Natasha Turner who has since written best selling books and made several appearances on Dr. Oz. 

Here are portions of a steampunk meets nature inspired website that I designed. I had photographed various elements to collage together what you see. It was an exciting project that would have had various interactive elements and motion depicted.

Here is a website concept that I created for Morning Coach, a life coaching service in the USA. 

While at Truestar Health as Creative Director, I designed various pages for the website as shown here.  

This was one of my early website designs that I created in 2002 for a jazz venue in Toronto which was inspired by 1950s and 60s design. It's one of my favourite styles to play with when clients will let me. 

This was the first website that I ever created which launched in 2001. This was one of many Flash based sites that I created and art directed as well. Fiona loved my concept for the site that I pitched and so I got her to create drawings which she did in black ink to accommodate the sections to her site that I coloured in and animated. This was a very successful site which won a couple web awards at the time, as well I was asked to do a Flash In TO presentation, a highly respected speakers series for new media in Toronto. The site led Fiona to becoming the first Canadian artist to do an art residency in Taipei, Taiwan and be part of a group art show in Venice where she exhibited a massive outdoor piece beside Yoko Ono's work which was also featured in the show. 

Christine Leakey - Sweet Dreams from the album, Wanderlust Wishing Well which will be released soon. I shot and edited this video except for film screen shots which my friends in San Diego shot for me. 

Christine Leakey - One and One from the album, Wanderlust Wishing Well which will be released soon. I commissioned a group in India to create a 60s Bollywood love story vibe that I art directed and then art directed the scenes filmed in San Diego with the help of friends who filmed there. I edited the footage together.  

Dave Kerzner - Ocean of Stars (2015) from the album, New World. This is one of many videos that I created for his live concert projections and future online releases. I shot and edited this video except for one tiny scene that was shot in Vancouver because the weather was too cold in Ontario to get into the water. The video was based on album art for the song that I also created. Contact me to view this video.

Dave Kerzner - Stranded from the album, New World (2015). I co-directed the desert scenes for this official video with my client, Dave. Sourced the props and miscellaneous other footage and I edited everything together. We worked with a small camera team based in Los Angeles. The video was created to match the look of the album art I had designed for New World. It was exciting to work in the California desert on this with the team and Durga McBroom from Pink Floyd. I incorporated footage from the lyric video version of Stranded that I also created. You can watch Stranded here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmEoyfI5sJ0
Here is the lyric video that I created as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hq6wjHrH1k

Christine Leakey - Lovely from the album, Tapping Trees In A Trinket Box Of Treasure. This was a video that I created and released in late 2011. A couple friends and cousin also filmed a few small clips included in the video. The video received praise worldwide from various music blogs. You may view Lovely here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP9yZvPBWsE

Christine Leakey - Twinkle from the soon to be released album, Wanderlust Wishing Well. This was a video that I created and released in 2016. I directed a friend who filmed me and I edited it. You may view Twinkle here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP9yZvPBWsE

Christine Leakey - Walks Like An Angel from the album, Wanderlust Wishing Well which will be released soon. A friend and I shot this video and I edited it. The video also features music legend Linda Perhacs who was shot via a friend in Topanga Canyon in Los Angeles.

Dave Kerzner - Redemption (2016) from the album, New World. This is one of many videos that I created for his live concert projections and future online releases. The video features scenes from other videos that I created for him as well features footage I sourced and footage from the desert shoots. It's a 22 minute video and the longest of any music video I have worked on.  Contact me to view this video.

Dave Kerzner - The Lie (2015) from the album, New World. This is one of many videos that I created (based on the album art for the song that I also created) for his live concert projections and future online releases. I sourced and edited this video in its entirety. Contact me to view this video.

Dave Kerzner - Crossing Of Fates (2015) from the album, New World. This is one of many videos that I created (based on the album art for the song that I also created) for his live concert projections and future online releases. I sourced and edited this video in its entirety. Contact me to view the video.

Dave Kerzner - Into The Sun (2015) from the album, New World. This is one of many videos that I created (based on the album art for the song that I also created) for his live concert projections and future online releases. A team in the UK filmed Dave and Heather, a friend in San Diego and I worked on special effects and I sourced footage and edited the video.

Dave Kerzner - My Old Friend (2015) from the album, New World. This is one of many videos that I created (based on the album art for the song that I also created) for his live concert projections and future online releases. A team in LA filmed Dave and Fernando, and I sourced footage and edited the video. Contact me to view.

Dave Kerzner - Under Control (2015) from the album, New World. This is one of many videos that I created and edited (based on the album art for the song that I also created) for his live concert projections and future online releases. Contact me to view this video.

Created for Healing Waves Reiki who wanted the logo to incorporate a hand, a wave and a horse.

Designed for Registered Massage Therapist, Jen Fleming who wanted me to incorporate the spine and hands. She loves nature and so I created it as a leaf in how the hands are cupping and nurturing the spine.

Designed for American guitarist and guitar teacher, Grant Ossendryver. I decided to do this in an Art Deco style which my client loves.

Rock Elite is a new music school for children in New England. I was asked to create something blue and classic that would tie in old and new. I created a few stunning concepts which I may later share and this one was the winner!

This was created for a small start-up company for spray foam. The client wanted something happy and uplifting which would illustrate the foam.

Twice is a Canadian Independent film by Digital Canaries that I was asked to create a logo and movie poster for. This was the only concept I created which was approved. There have been a number of times where clients have chosen the first logo concept that I've created from a group of choices presented. I take pride in being a good listener.

Steel City Pro Wrestling had a similar logo but needed an update. This is the result. I modified the phoenix like bird they were already using and added colour and the adapted a new font treatment and graphic to tie it together. The client wanted something classic and so I drew my inspiration from old steel workers union emblems and superheroes.

Dr. Natasha Turner ND, a former colleague from one of my full time previous places of employment where I was Creative Director approached me to design her branding and sales collateral for her wellness boutique when she started Clear Medicine. She wanted it to have a fresh and clean feeling through simplicity in design. It has worked out great for her as part of her brand and she has since gone on to appear numerous times on Dr. Oz and the Marilyn Denis show. As well she has written some great health related best selling books.

Girl Spoken (Filles Fantastique) was a bilingual Ontario outreach program for young teen girls during the 2000s which provided an outlet for them to share social issues they encounter through art and writing. I was asked to design their logo in a way that was bright, positive, playful and youthful. I had also designed their website and parts of a book that they published. 

Women Can Do Anything was a 90s - 2000s website crafted for Canadian women to network, promote and propel in business, women's issues, events and more. I was asked to create a feminine and empowering logo, hence the salmon and brown tones. I had also designed the website and various sales collateral for the client. 

I created this logo for a not-for-profit community arts and theatre organization in Brantford, Ontario. 

Eight years ago, I created this logo for RV Hotline, Canada's classified RV trader site. 

Designed for Sax on Yonge, a downtown Toronto jazz club during the early 2000's.

Hamilton Osteopathic asked me to design their logo and incorporate hands. Here is the chosen concept where the hands portray the movement of fluid waves relative to their form of Osteopathic practice. 

This is a Holistic Nutritionist concept that I created for a client who wanted water, lemon and lavender incorporated. 

The client was very specific in wanting a golden key incorporated into their name along with a serif font. They were very pleased with the results and expressed it exceeded their expectation. 

King West Village is an integrated health clinic who approached me while started up to design their logo and business collateral. They wanted modern and hip. In their words: “What can we say? Christine Leakey is the ‘Best Kept Secret In Toronto!’ The logo designed by Christine exceeded our expectation regarding branding as well as conveying our mission statement and philosophy via our business cards and brochure. ‘You go girl!’”

Trans DR, a Chicago based company who approached me to design their logo while incorporating an arrow and the colour green. Presto, they chose this classic design from my concepts! 

I rebranded this design firm in 2008. 

I designed this for Matrix Marketing Concepts many moons ago. I used my own hand as a reference. 

The French Group was a Toronto based small corporate business who hired me earlier in my career to design their logo (also with the stipulation to incorporate an arrow) as well as sales and business print collateral. In the clients own words: “Rebranding a company is a complex process. Christine intuitively understood our requirements for a distinct, upscale professional look which delivers impact through simplicity. We are delighted with the results...”

In 2004, I was a title sponsor for the Hamilton Music Awards. As part of the sponsorship I designed the branding, print and promotional materials as well as motion graphics for the award ceremonies. “Christine is responsible for Hamilton Music Scene 2004 and the 2004 Hamilton Music Awards graphic design. She designed our posters, display ads, event programme, banners and much more. She tolerated all of our last minute requests and changes. A veteran in the music business, Christine's expertise is hard to come by. I highly recommend Christine for any of your projects.” - Jean-Paul Gauthier, Director of the Hamilton Music Awards. 

A logo I created for a corporate internal cleaning service. 

Pawsapalooza was a fundraiser event to help animal rescues in need. I was asked to create a playful logo along with a poster to promote their event.

Bead Junction was a Toronto bead boutique. I designed this logo for them when the business began in 2003.

Drive Line is an internal magazine for McKinnon Transport Inc, one of Canada's top 50 best managed companies. I designed the look and feel for their magazine as well as its logo as shown.

Leak Marker approached me to design their logo, website and some sales collateral. The product is a filter of sorts that helps to prevent plumbing leaks and is incorporated into the design (red circle with tabs). The A in leak has a water drop which pleased the client as well. 

This is one of many logo designs that I have created for various independent recording artists and singer/songwriters from around the globe. 

2wenty Two Days is a logo element for a 22 day practice to form a positive habit that was incorporated into marketing materials that I also created for a Miami based life coach. 

Branded was a marketing element for the launch of the new Synergy Pro Solutions rebrand that I created. This was made into lapel buttons for a business trade show. A comic book superhero theme in red, white and blue was also my source of inspiration.

Miscellaneous logo concepts I have pitched to clients.

From the Lister Arts (Hamilton gallery) concepts, the client wanted a logo resembling a wax seal and so I created a graphic of an architectural element from the building - a flower to incorporate. I had also pitched alternate ideas incorporating waterfalls which Hamilton is known for. The flooring in Lister was colourful and so I suggested bringing that out in the logo to create continuity. They were set on the wax seal and so I pulled elements from the crown moulding at Lister Block to incorporate into the design. 

Here is a logo that I recreated for a Toronto based architect boutique firm based on a rough hand drawing concept by the architect. 

This was a logo that I created many moons ago for a small business that sold organic plant food for the garden. 

A postcard that I designed and photo edited along with font treatment for the Vegan T-shirt company, Plenty Sweet Enough. 

Promotional postcards that I designed for Clear Medicine. I also designed the Clear Medicine logo.

A multi page fold out kit that I created with a comic superhero theme for a small design firm that I was hired on to rebrand their image. I hired a copywriter to work with me on this piece which was used at business trade shows. Also created for the kit were lapel 'branded' buttons.  

A brochure that I designed for U Weight Loss.

A fall campaign direct mailer that I designed for U Weight Loss.

A Christmas campaign direct mailer that I designed for U Weight Loss.

A Valentine campaign direct mailer that I designed for U Weight Loss.

Garvey's Mens Wear postcards and direct mailers that I designed. These designs were an entirely new look and feel for their marketing pieces that I created. Oftentimes the client loves the first concept which was the case here and for all the Truestar and U Weight Loss as well. 

This Yummy Mummy direct mailer campaign caused a 20% increase in sales at Truestar for Women. I enjoyed creating these direct mailer campaigns to have a design that flowed seamlessly. I don't just like to throw down a stock image, it's great to create a flow and collage together various images to tell a story. 

This Love Yourself First direct mailer was our second most successful campaign to the Yummy Mummy campaign. Again, I designed the mailer to have a seamless flow while also collaging various images together to create something beautiful that wouldn't just get thrown away.

Every two weeks we were sending out direct mailers. I would be given a days notice to create them and would in that time come up with a visual theme and implement it based on the teaser phrase provided by the copywriter. They sparked great interest at our trade show booth at the CHFA and also set a new marketing trend in the weight loss industry for awhile as I started receiving in my mail at home similar pieces from competitors.

Another Truestar for Women direct mailer that I designed. I also created magazine and newspaper ads for each of these and wound up hiring and mentoring a junior designer to do the ad production. 

Love Letters direct mailer campaign where we would feature a new weight loss success story bi-weekly. 

Some more samples of direct mailers for Truestar for Women. 

Christmas party postcard invitation for Truestar Health. 

This campaign was created as direct mail pieces, sales pieces for our door to door marketers and in outdoor advertising. This look I created with leaping ladies and measuring tape also sparked a trend in the weight loss world. 

Various brochure designs for Truestar Health that I designed. 

This was a health newsletter that I designed which we included in our customer shipments at Truestar Health. 

The cover of a digital promotional brochure for PPG that I designed. 

Net Trax is a lost baggage tracking system product that I designed the brand and packaging and marketing pieces for. 

An example of municipal brochures that I designed for the city of Toronto. 

I co-designed a series of Home Depot brochures including these. 

An example of sales brochures that I designed for new urban real estate development. I also had to redraw the floor plans as we worked from fax copies. It helped that I took six drafting classes during my teens and almost pursued architecture! I was top in my class and was even asked by my high school drafting teacher to design a utility barn for one of his clients which was built. 

A poster design that I created and collaged which was printed to postcard size and included in a deluxe box set edition of Dave Kerzner's New World debut album release. 

A foldout poster I designed as part of the packaging that I also designed for the USA album release, To Love The Bee Gees: A Tribute to the Brothers Gibb. The album is brilliantly curated featuring many renowned and very talented recording artists.

A movie poster that I designed for this independent film, Twice. I also designed the logo. 

A movie poster that I designed for the independent film, Nine Types of ICE. 

A storefront window sign that I designed for Garvey's Mens Wear. 

Various PPG billboard designs that I created. 

A sandwich board design that I created along with the logo for RMT, Jen Fleming. 

Window sign that I created for Dieroff Osteopathy. I also designed the logo. 

A transport truck wrap for the film 300 that I designed from their existing brand. 

PowerUP sandwich board design that I created for Truestar Health. I also designed the PowerUP logo.

One of many designs that I created for our posters and ads based on direct mail pieces that I designed for Truestar for Women. 

A sandwich board design that I created for Truestar which was used at third party gyms who carried our products. 

An example of various outdoor advertisements, window decals and billboards that I created for Truestar for Women which were seen at Go Train Stations surrounding the Greater Toronto Area. 

Window decals I designed for third party gyms who carried Truestar Health products.

A vinyl banner that I had created which was displayed at the completion of Julie and Colin's first ever circumnavigation of the globe by only human power. I obtained title sponsorship for them from Truestar Health. I created several other signs and the ticker tape at their finale event in Vancouver, BC. 

A poster design I created and illustrated for a one man play in Toronto entitled, Big Thinging.

An example of a poster design I created for the City of Toronto. 

This was a large sign hung at a German toy trade show that I designed for Spin Master Toys. Air Hogs was the largest profiting toy product for the company.

Some examples of gig posters that I have designed over time.

For fun, here is a very old design that I created which was a small poster and flyer. I used to enjoy hand drawing and doing raw cut and paste style designs when I proclaimed myself as the anti-designer after graduating college for Graphic Design. 

Here are some of examples from all the point of purchase marketing display pieces and assembly instructions that I designed for the Canadian DVD release of 300. 

I designed the treatment for this 300 Rise of an Empire display for the Canadian DVD release.

Trade show display concepts that I created for Happy Feet. I worked with some provided elements and was given the freedom to create new elements for this display.

I was asked to design DVD displays for Canadian retail locations including Future Shop that incorporated both Sex and the City and The Sopranos. It was hugely successful and used in several seasons. I was given freedom to go outside the brand and so I tied the two shows together with a heart shaped die cut and roses which represent the shows.

These are DVD counter top display concepts that I created for Matrix and Blade Runner. 

Various other DVD displays that I designed for Deadwood, sports DVDs, Entourage, and Mother's Day featuring Nip/Tuck, Six Feet Under and Sex and the City. For Deadwood, I was given freedom to go beyond the brand again and so I created the wanted poster and horse tacking post with emblem.

Trade show displays that I designed for McMaster University's engineering program. 

Full coverage window decals that I designed for a small independent grocer, Vince's. I was inspired to create a big and bold look and feel reminiscent of pop art. 

A few examples of Little Caesars translites I designed (backlit menu displays) that hang over the cash counter. 

A Superman DVD XBOX combo package concept that I designed for Warner Bros using a metal case. 

DVD special edition box designs that I created for Scooby Doo, Looney Tunes and Hanna Barbara. 

Ballot box and ballot design that I created for U Weight Loss. I also wrote the copy.

Watering Solutions product packaging concept that I designed. I also designed logo.

Truestar Health TrueBAR packaging that I designed. I also photographed the protein bars. 

Examples of folders that I designed for Truestar Health.

An example of various packaging production that I worked on while at Spin Master Toys.

Drive Line is an internal magazine publication that I designed for McKinnon Transport Inc who are one of Canada's top 50 Best Managed Companies. My employer at the time felt this design was too slick to present to a trucking company and I said to trust that a company with such a great reputation would surely want something like this. So he presented the magazine and they loved it. The publication went on to have several issues. I created an industrial theme and collages that were inspired by metals, road signs, highways and road paint. 

Here is a U Weight Loss Testimonial book that I created.

Examples from magazine concepts that I created for Morning Coach, an online life coaching program. 

I designed several PPG calendars. Here are a few page samples. 

Here are samples from a PPG catalog that I designed.

This is the cover for an eighty page festival guide book that I designed for Fringe Jazz.

I designed the logo and business card as shown for Healing Waves. I also created the image artwork.

I designed the business card, logo and other print and digital elements for Jen Fleming, RMT.

I designed the logo, business cards and other print and digital marketing pieces for Clear Medicine, a wellness boutique owned by Dr. Natasha Turner who is often featured on Dr. Oz. 

I designed the logo and business card for King West Village Medical Centre.

I designed the logo and business cards for Hamilton Osteopathic.

I designed the logo and business cards as well as signs for Dieroff Osteopathy. 

I designed these cleaning service cards for Iovate.

I designed the logo and business cards for Digital Photofavors.

I designed the logo and business cards as well as website and other marketing pieces for Leak Marker.

I designed the logo and business cards for Trans DR.

Here are a few magazine ad examples that I designed for Truestar Clinic, an integrative preventative health clinic in Toronto which was under the Truestar Health umbrella where I was Creative Director. 

A few samples of magazine ads that I created for U Weight Loss bi-monthly campaigns. 

Gift certificates were one of the components to bi-monthly advertising campaigns that I designed for U Weight Loss. 

One of several coupon designs that I created while Creative Director at U Weight Loss. 

Various magazine ad samples from the first advertising campaign I created along with a copywriter for Truestar for Women while Creative Director at Truestar Health. I also created direct mail pieces, sales kits and several outdoor advertisements with this look and feel which received great praise and thanks from our membership.  

Another early ad campaign I created at Truestar Health. 

This was a double sided flyer that I designed for RV Hotline to hand out at trade shows where I had also created the trade show display which matched this look and feel. I also designed the entire brand for them at the time in 2008. 

Here is an ad that I created for Dave Kerzner's New World release. I designed the album art as well and created several music videos for the project. This ad was placed in Prog Magazine in the UK. 

A simple ad page background I designed incorporating business cards submitted to tie together a Nascar theme. When freelancing I sometimes take on other tasks. In this case, I was doing cold call ad sales for an entertainment weekly magazine for a short time when I moved to a new city and was told by the president of the publication that I was the highest cold call sales rep in their ten year history. That was back in early 2005. Having a music entertainment background and being a design professional gave me an edge, earning the respect of those I targeted. Building theme pages helped to close the deal every time. 

One of many production design samples of flyers that I created for various grocery stores including Sobey's, Longo's and D'AG NYC.  

Sax on Yonge (Toronto jazz venue) entertainment weekly ads that I created along with the rest of their brands look and feel. 

A couple of ad samples I designed for The First Toronto Fringe Jazz Festival when I was the festival co-producer. I wore many hats during a ten week stretch where I also designed the festival book, website and more which you can learn about on my community involvement page.  

One of several ads I created while at Spin Master Toys during a year of exponential growth for the company thanks to the Air Hogs product. This particular ad was also used as a massive sign at a German toy show. 

Here are some examples of icon designs for various projects that I have created for tools in application software, navigation, images to represent a topic or simply to enhance a layout. 

In 2015, I co-wrote a book entitled, SHEET MUSIC The Diary Of A Songwriter which is about sexual injustice in the music industry along with 100 women in music from around the globe. The book is authored by multi-Grammy winning producer, Devine Evans. I flew to Los Angeles twice for this project, first for a meeting about the book and photo shoot at Henson Studios and then for the book launch on Valentine's Day, 2016 at the Avalon in Hollywood. The event included special guest performances by St. Beauty and DJ Spinderella. Special guests in attendance included Vanessa Simmons and Janelle Monae. 

In 2005 and 2006, I wore many hats for the first ever circumnavigation of the globe by only human power which was achieved by Colin Angus and joined in part by his now wife, Julie. I was their Media Manager during the expedition. I pursued media globally, successfully resulting in several world wide publications in print, web and television (Namely, Discovery Channel and obtained Julie’s first glossy women’s magazine spread in Venus Magazine which led to her first book publishing deal). For their Banff Film Festival Award Winning documentary, Beyond the Horizon, I was their Music Supervisor and I wrote the original score. 
I also obtained title sponsorship for them from Truestar Health who provided significant financial support and nutritional supplements.

Other tasks for the expedition included: 
• Provided ocean weather reports
• Coordinated a greeting from media, a photoshoot and Truestar product delivery upon their St. Lucia arrival
• Organized a film screening fundraiser in Hamilton with significant silent auction items, catered food, Julie Angus as guest speaker, and presented the expeditioners documentaries
• Designed the welcome back ceremonies print collateral and assisted the title sponsor at the ceremonies

From 2013 to 2014, my visual art and illustrative works were available for purchase on my own wall space at Lister Arts in Hamilton’s James North Arts district within Canada's oldest arcade, the Lister Block. Buyers of my art during that time were from the Netherlands, Zimbabwe and Canada.

In 2002, I was the Production Coordinator and Graphic Designer for Toronto’s First Fringe Jazz Festival which evolved into the Distillery Jazz Festival. My tasks included creating the 100 page website, designing festival ads, the 80 page festival programme and brochures. I also recorded and mixed the Fringe Jazz slogan for radio, conducted administrative work and basic bookkeeping and managed communications with musicians and volunteers.

Other community involvement has included: 

T.E.A.D. The Equestrian Association For The Disabled (2008-2010) 
I assisted people of all ages and levels of disabilities to ride equestrian and take and groom the horses. 

Title Sponsor for the 2004 Hamilton Music Awards
Designed the branding for the HMA, HMS and September Seventh Entertainment; Designed all collateral including advertisements, programme, posters and signs; Created motion graphics for the big screen winner announcements at the award ceremonies.

Interactive Presenter, FlashinTO (2003)
Featured woman in Flash design and development; Gave a Flash presentation focused on fionasmyth.com which won a web design award and won Fiona an art residency in Taipei, Taiwan. 

The Drive To Survive Charity Golf Tournament, Nobleton Lakes Golf & Country Club (1999-2002)
I was proud to volunteer my ideas and time. During these four annual events, we successfully raised $136,000 for the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario.  
The tournaments were MC'd by Toronto's CITY TV personality, the late Mark Daley and our auctions were MC'd by NHL retiree, Daryl Sittler. We had live music at lunch by Selwyn Gomes and during our cocktail hour. We featured many prizes from a year lease for a BMW convertible, large cash prizes, a sail boat, and various smaller prizes. 

Small concert organizer
During the nineties mostly, I have organized several successful small capacity live indie music concerts.