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Preventable.ca

Art direction

Website for the non-profit group The Community Against Preventable Injuries.

Preventable needed a bold, in-your-face online presence to grab people's attention. The straightforward, persuasive content and strong contrasting colours accomplish this mission.

Produced at Wasserman + Partners Advertising.

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totebag

221A Totebag

totebag design

Custom design for 221A gallery's first edition of totebags.

The lyrics are non-lexical vocables from the Sound Choice Karaoke version of "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" by The Guess Who.

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Vancouver Art/Book Fair

site design / development

Responsive website for the first inaugural Vancouver Art/Book Fair.

Art direction by Jaz Halloran.

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Kino für Kinder

site design / development

Responsive website for a travelling series of international artists' films for children.

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dmal

MagScene on Main

site design / development

Website for the Magazine Association of BC's annual Vancouver event. Mandatories included online ticket sales, an interactive event schedule map, and a media gallery.

The site inspiration was culled from Jaz Halloran's initial event identity and poster design.

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Lately...

Some recent projects I've made

Groove is in the Art →
Identity, flyers and custom web graphics for Access Gallery's annual live-auction fundraising event.

Material Arrangement →
Participation in a group art exhibition at 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver. Each artist also designed an accompanying publication poster and text for OCW Magazine. pics

Public Access: 1999 & Beyond →
Curatorial endeavour with Weekend Leisure at Helen/Pitt Projects, resulting in a half-hour public access television show aired on Novus TV. I designed and developed the site, as well as designed a 136-page exhibition catalogue.

Crowmotion →
Design and development of online portfolio for UK-based motion graphics studio.

dmal

Draw Me A Lion

shop design / development

Website for an online shop specialising in stationary and children's products.

The store is a custom theme running on e-commerce CMS Big Cartel.

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gib

Granville Island Brewing Mobile Quiz

Art direction / front-end dev

Mobile quiz for GIB's IN THE KNOW campaign. After answering six questions about Vancouver culture, the user is directed to their resulting knowledge score and a contest entry form.

Live quiz can be viewed on your mobile device at gib.ca/intheknow. Produced at Wasserman + Partners Advertising.

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giants-site

GIANTS Comedy

site design / development

Website for a Vancouver comedy series presented with The Cultch. The GIANTS identity was a collaboration with Mark Stuckert.

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Clients

Some accounts I've worked with

SunRype, ICBC, Vancity, London Drugs, Granville Island Brewery, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Preventable.ca, Vancouver International Improv Festival, Grant Lawrence, Artspeak Gallery, Access Gallery, 221A Artist Run Centre, Unit/Pitt Projects, Music Waste Festival

svf

STEEL VIPER FORCE

executive producer /
production designer
identity / titles / site

A Vancouver-based action feature film. Hold on to your asses... and your dicks.

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hb

Hip.Bang! Improv

Identity design

Idsdfsdfsentity and promotional materials for Vancouver improv comedy group.

Wordmark includes hand-lettered custom text. To create visual impact for their tour promotions, three colourways of posters and flyers were provided for each of three separate festivals in North America.

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pantsuits

Pantsuits!

video series / co-creator
identity / titles / site

A comedic video series for career women, by career women. Created with and co-starring Amber Daniels.

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skills

Skills

Technical Skillset

  • Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Corel DRAW X4 (yup!)
  • HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JavaScript, Actionscript, PHP, MySQL, Git Version Control, SVN
  • Responsive & mobile first development, cross-browser compatibility & SEO optimization
  • Wordpress, Tumblr, Indexhibit, & Big Cartel front-end development
whoneeds

Who needs content? [.com]

social media somethingorother

A whim project. Just share it already.

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icons

Unemployment Icon Set

icon design

Alternately titled "Freelancer's Icon Set", this is a series of icons for the working homebody.

I started making graphics for my new business card but gradually became more and more inspired by my job situation and sweatpants.

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adventures1

Adventures in Solitude

book illustration

29 interior illustrations for Grant Lawrence's award-winning debut book, Adventures in Solitude. Ink on paper with digital halftone. Published by Harbour Publishing.

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dci

David Christy & Internet

partner / art director
site design / development

Founded with David Look in 2009.

Although we do commercial work, David Christy and Internet's focus is to provide professional solutions for local, small-budget groups and foundtions.

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norma

Norma Scarves

scarf design

Scarves created for a performance by the Norma artist collective, through Artspeak Gallery.

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karaoke

Weekend Leisure Karaoke

brand identity

Identity and promotional materials for art/video/karaoke collective.

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sexguy

Sex Guy

digital illustration

Sex Guy online banner graphic for The Vancouver Observer.

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tumblr

Tumblr

http://tumblr.christynyiri.com

"A blog of nothings and somethings as internetted by one C. Nyiri."

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ora-web

Ora Bags Site

site design / development

Second re-design and CMS development of Ora Bags' website and online shop.

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About

who this person be?

Christy Nyiri is an art director who makes websites, drawings, designs and the sporadic wedding cake in Vancouver, Canada.

Along with having red hair, she holds a Bachelor of Media Arts from Emily Carr University in addition to a few AutoCAD drafting certificates from BCIT.

In 2009 she partnered with David Look (and the Internet) to develop online strategies under the moniker David Christy & Internet. She also actively collaborates within the artist collective Norma as well as produces video/karaoke/comedy works with the creative team Weekend Leisure.

BONUS LINK!

Christy on Vancouver is Awesome →

grant

Grant Lawrence

site design / development

Site for CBC broadcaster Grant Lawrence.

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twins

Self Portrait as Conjoined Twins I

graphite illustration

Series of five drawings for a group drawing exhibition at Nouvelle Nouvelle, Vancouver. Curated by Lief Hall.

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bronx

Bronx Cheer

flyer design

Flyer design for local comedy night hosted by the comedic duo Bronx Cheer.

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number

A Number of Things

book illustrations

13 illustrations for A Number of Things, a colouring book by artist Micah Lexier. Ink on paper. Published by Artspeak Gallery.

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br2

Babe Rainbow

logo design

Logo for local 'musician' Babe Rainbow.

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mw08

Music Waste Poster

poster illustration

A 2-colour poster for the 2008 Music Waste festival. Perhaps this poster is somewhat old, but I still really like it.

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cheque

cheque-to-cheque

album cover

Album cover illustration and typesetting for Payday Millionaire.

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twin-full

Self Portrait as Conjoined Twins II

graphite illustration

Drawing for the group exhibition 1001 at Lucky's Comics, Vancouver. Curated by Francesca Bennett.

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wl

Weekend Leisure

art collective / active member

Weekend Leisure is a 3-person video/art/comedy/karaoke collective. We make lots of videos which you can find through our site.

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twins2

Self Portrait as Twins

graphite illustration

Personal work exploring the idea of myself and family as twins.

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norma

Norma

art collective / active member

Norma is a 7-person performance art collective based in Vancouver. Norma most recently won a 2011 Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for Emerging Public Artist.

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