Student Portfolio
Omar Taleb
Pride Marketing Done Right
Omar Taleb writes a blog post for Bold Culture that discusses actionable and impactful marketing practices for companies supporting the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month. Bold Culture is an EDI consulting and communications firm based in New York that focuses on the Black, Latinx and LGBTQ+ communities and their intersections.
Why the David Suzuki Foundation featured this Creative Industries student’s artwork
Gabriella Yapp makes a bold statement on climate action
Gabriella Yapp was among a selection of artists chosen by the David Suzuki Foundation to showcase her artwork, as part of the Art for Climate Justice initiative. This collaborative art project brought together artists from across the country as part of a call for bold climate change. The artwork will be featured in a print book that will be sent to cabinet ministers, the Prime Minister, and several other party leaders at the 2021 United Nations Climate Conference.
Mass Exodus
The annual event run by the School of Fashion featured 19 student-designed collections. The 2021 theme was ‘An Inevitable Shift’, a message that aims to break commonalities and explore new ways to incorporate diversity, sizing and accessibility in fashion.
The curated show rounded off with a series of capstone projects by fashion design and fashion communication students displayed at Daniels Spectrum community centre.
Shira Yavor
Fashion Design
Living as One
Cotton cords, netting, soil, plants, PLA plastic
Mc Joyin Rey Sy Pagalan
Fashion Design
Valour (Leather Jacket)
Garment
INTRO Student Fashion Show
Students in the fashion, graphic communications management, and interior design programs explored sustainable design and practice in their creative industries and adapted to an entirely digital environment for their year-end showcases.
Graphic Communications Management
GCM students win prestigious award in print innovation
Rochelle Balba, Hanna Elrayis, Masarra Haddad, Megan Knoblauch, Dylan Sahid, Kelly Tangtakoune and Kennedy Thornton, GCM
Student team wins the ‘Best Print Design’ award presented virtually at the 15th annual Canadian Printing Awards. The students won the award for their stunning acrylic coaster designs which were created as part of a Graphic Communications Processes class.
Oculus Quest Ad
Sean Truong
A print advertisement completed for GCM720: Magazine Publishing. The full-page ad is part of the final project that required students to create a 16-paged publication.
Designed with Adobe Dimensions, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
#TBT
A poster design completed for GCM320: Digital Printing Technologies. The completed design was sent to Xerox Iridesse for print embellishment.
Designed in Adobe Illustrator.
Flowerboiszn
A photoshop project completed for GCM121: Graphic Communications Processes. The set tells the story of a hopeless romantic that turns into a bouquet of flowers for a love that never arrived.
Designed in Adobe Photoshop.
Shot on Nikon D3300.
Image Arts
Image Arts students debut BIPOC exhibition ‘it’s real because it happened’
School of Image Arts students debut the first exhibition funded by BIPOC fundraiser It's Real Because it Happened (external link) at Artspace Gallery (external link) this past winter The in-gallery exhibition and artist residency featured work by fourth-year IMA photography media arts student, Deion Squires-Rouse, and photography media arts alum, Ajeuro Abala, (external link) and was curated by Artspace Gallery's summer Researcher in Residence, Christina Oyawale.
Interior Design
Pooja Patel, Interior Design 2021
Pooja Patel wins an award at the Interior Design Year End Show for Best Use of Materiality for her project that democratises the practice of operating industrial robots through a series of vessel studies. The outcome homogenises the unique design aesthetics resulting from the use of large scale 3D printing technology, and introduces it as a standard for design practices of the future.
Kristen Jensen, Interior Design 2021
Kirsten won at The Interior Design Year End Show in the category of Best Sustainable Practice for her project "Design with Waste" which utilizes waste as a new material resource. The vertically stacked design addresses thermal ventilation by adjustable curtains made of various upcycled materials for spatial flexibility, and hot/cold air through the atrium is led out through the centre stairway cavity to the roof, similar to that of a ventilation chimney effect.
Harrison Darcel, Interior Design 2025
Harrison won Best in First Year for the painting "Many Y Mano" which is distilled into the two most present design elements, line and shape. They were separated and then brought back together using the structure of the design. Even though each element on their own is very different, the thoughtful combination of the two, and the harmony they strike, is indicative of the idea of hybridization.
INTRO Fashion Show
Students from Fashion, Graphic Communications Management and Interior Design feature sustainable design
The Creative School creatives explore environmental viability in year-end showcase projects
Students in the fashion, graphic communications management, and interior design programs explored sustainable design and practice in their creative industries and adapted to an entirely digital environment for their year-end showcases.
This Could Change Your Mind
Advanced Podcasting and Radio Documentary class, 2021
This Could Change Your Mind, released on July 7, 2021, is the final project of the Winter 2021 JRN 801, Advanced Podcasting and Radio Documentary, class. The series consists of nine episodes, averaging between 20 to 30 minutes per episode, and was almost entirely student-run from the get-go.
Minh Truong explores rising incidence of anti-Asian hate while also celebrating the storied heritage of Asian communities in Canada
Last fall, fourth-year Journalism students Minh Truong, Adrian Bueno, and Santiago Ramer decided to reposition their final COVID-related video project to address the rising incidents of discrimination and hate in the country.
Photo by Jason Leung via Unsplash
“Dancing Together Distance Apart” (external link)
Liam Woodvine, Dance 2021
Liam Woodvine won first prize for his choreography in the “Dancing Together Distance Apart” Virtual Solo Dance Competition hosted by the Antigua and Barbuda Department of Culture. The contest featured videos filmed during lockdown and submitted by dance teams throughout the Caribbean.
Professional Communication
Love Letters
By Karina Mohammed, Betty Mekonnen, Adrienne Tabinga, Brenna Brooks, Kellen Gardner, Leché Hope, Sabrina Ly, Jemimah Galvez
“Love Letters” is an exercise in strategic storytelling for CMN 324 — a course where students explore the power of stories. They look at the basic concepts of narrative and learn tools and techniques for telling great stories. This social media video series features students sharing love letters with people who’ve been influential in their lives.
Learning in VR
Rangga Luksatrio
For his 4th year final project, Rangga Luksatrio transformed a traditional research poster using augmented reality. The IRL view of the poster has minimal information, but when users point their phone at the poster, it comes alive with animations.
RTA Media
Bounced Podcast
Sam McNulty, 4th Year Media Production
Bounced is a podcast that spotlights the audio production work of RTA Media students through a unique blend of auditory themes and experiences. Produced by 4th Year Media Production student Sam McNulty in partnership with RTA Media professor and director of the Allan Slaight Radio Institute Lori Beckstead, Bounced provides a space for student work to live on.
RTA Media student Yvette Sin created unique artwork, shown on the left, for the podcast.
Michael Dimuccio, 2nd year RTA Media Production student, attracts internet fame in less than a year
Second-year RTA Media student Michael DiMuccio (external link) has taken TikTok (external link) by storm and built an online community for himself in the gaming and comedy niche. Having acquired more than 1 million followers in the last 200+ days, many of Dimuccio’s videos like “If Vin Diesel Played Warzone (external link) ” and “Dark Aether (external link) '' have amassed 4.7 million and 8.1 million views respectively. His success on Tik Tok encouraged him to explore YouTube (external link) where he has more than 200,000 subscribers with 47 million video views in the last month alone.
You're Here Now
Karly Cywink, 1st Year MA Media Production
You’re Here Now is a documentary that explores the issue of self-identity and self-determination of Karly Cywink, a young Indigenous woman living in Toronto, Ontario.