This is the third iteration of Greg's site built in Drupal and this recent redesign is intended as a 'personal landing page' to act as a replacement for a once-upon-a-time active blog. The goal here is to provide a concise log of actions and activities across the web. This is our first responsive web design project, with varying layouts optimized for desktop, tablet and mobile device viewing.
Thesis publication for the 2006 graduating class of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design. This job required streamlining 55 diverse projects, balancing an extremely tight production budget, and adhering to a very rigid schedule. As an exercise in information design, this project is an important ancestor of our current work as Greg took a particular interest in the thematic cross-connectivity between the projects within this book. He created a custom indexing system to allow for lateral movement through the projects by pedagogy, geography and theme.
Spring 2010: Web presence for American creative collective Curious that included an online portfolio, blog and community index. For this shoestring-budget multimedia archive we rejigged the Basic Maths WordPress theme to set up a clean, two column layout and developed an idiosyncratic typographic identity to match this dynamic organization.
Urban Sound Ecology was a community driven initiative to create an open sound map of Toronto and Vancouver. The site employed custom OpenLayers and OpenStreetMap workflow to trace urban walks and archive associated field recordings. This platform was used in a University of British Columbia undergrad geography research methods course in 2011 and 2012 and featured in a range of publications including Fast Company and the The Toronto Star.
Fall 2009: Libertas Post is a political blog and online community platform. Mission Specialist was approached to develop the information architecture and publishing workflow underpinning this site. The publishing system features numerous content types that are accessible to several distinct roles (bloggers, columnists, editors and feature writers).
Spring 2009: Mission Specialist was approached by Taylor_Smyth Architects to act as a new media consultant to provide input for a team preparing a proposal for a new Ontario College of Art and Design facility specializing in digital technology. Mission Specialist conducted research on data visualization, sensor technologies and interactive systems to inform the resulting design scheme.
