Colin Parks, Graphic Designer
250.818.1330 • whatsup [at] colinparks [dot] com
Victoria, BC, Canada
This is often the place where designers or firms inflate themselves to dimensions resembling some of our solar system's larger planets. Instead of grandiose wordage, I prefer to let the work do the talking. Drop me a line if you'd like to discuss a project, or simply want to muse on life's little quirks.
See my resume.
I blog over here if you want to open that door.
A collection of posters I've done over the past little while in my spare time. →
Myself and a few others have come together to form De Fuca Media, a boutique design and media firm. →
A client called me hoping I could assist her in her endeavour of launching her own company, primarily in the naming and logo development departments. →
I've created a new logo and four new covers to add to the growing Colin Parks Collection. →
During my time at Holy Cow, I was fortunate (my colleagues would say unfortunate) enough to be tasked with designing some procedural related reference guides for Elections BC. →
I was excited when I was challenged once again with designing Mayfair's annual Marketing Plan while at Holy Cow. The 2009 cover, shown above, was designed by Julie Coward. →
The most recent in a string of newsletters I've produced, based on a simple template supplied by another designer. Another Holy Cow project.
Mayfair Shopping Centre's 2008 Marketing Plan, done at Holy Cow. →
A good name often seems to generate its own logo, as was the case with the Stonehouse Pub. A combination of two similar initial concepts, the mark reflects the classic architecture of the building. Done at Holy Cow.
A buddy wanted some business cards — apparently he got tired of scribbling his information down on receipts and bits of wood that were handy at the time. Wanting to use the name "P-hil" (Phil with a hyphen — get it?), I immediately had images of a big European conglomerate, so I kept Swiss minimalism in mind when desiging the logo and card. Surprisingly, he loved them right off the bat, though I'm suspect that he was mostly sold on the solid green. (He loves green.)
An exercise to express both my love for the crazy 19th century typographic posters and my discerning taste for typefaces.
There really isn't much more to life, is there? Download and print it out and admit it to yourself.
If you came from Straight, No Chaser, my blog, and are looking for this, click the image above for the PDF. I apologize for the bouncing around. If you didn't come from my blog, you can still download the poster — I'm nice like that — and feel free to check my blog out.
I can remember a teacher in college preaching a “die hard rule” in graphic design: never do work for your friends or family. I never was one for rules. The above logo and business cards were done for a cousin of mine and his business partner, starting up an internet based communications company.
A small sampling of the 100+ logotypes I've created in my spare time. Yeah, maybe I'm a little obsessed. (Note: some of those are real companies. I've done these merely as concept renderings.)
