Things have been pretty quiet over the last few weeks… Which is a good thing. I’m making really good headway on my design portfolio website, which is both tedious, and a joy. It’s been fun pulling a few of my older projects from the hundreds of CD’s and DVD’s boxed up in storage, cracking open the odd vintage Quark file (with InDesign of course) and creating nice previews/layouts of the projects.
Mixing up a bit of my older stuff with all my latest stuff, and putting it all side-by-side is pretty interesting. I’ll weed through it all once it’s all together to see what makes the final cut… Above in the graphic you can see a few things that probably won’t be making into the final collection, but it’s been nice to get it all into place just for my own records. There’s been lots and lots of projects over the years, but I’ve noticed that it’s amazing how much of the website work just slips through the cracks. Or even worse, there’s so much web work that’s just no longer live, and sometimes screen captures don’t do the websites justice.
I’m going to try and stay on top of it better now that this new portfolio is built using WordPress – that will really make it easier than ever stay on top of this all this stuff. I’ll be photographing some of my work as well, but I’m saving all that to do at one time when I have everything pulled together, and I know exactly what I need to shoot.
That’s all I’ve got going on for now… Back to it.
Art Direction: Sheldan Wood Creative
Design: Chris Young
This oversized exterior trail map showcases Sun Peaks extensive Mountain Bike Trails. The sign was based off of the previously designed Summer Trails Map as well as the Hiking Trails Map.
See also the Sun Peaks Summer Trails Map Brochure.
The Salient Group corporate website v2.0
With the downturn in the markets – particularly real estate, which I’ve spent much of the last several years focused on, what better time for a developer to reflect on their website? Companies always seem to make the mistake of cutting back on their advertising, and web presence in times like these, but that need not be the case.
I’d started on some comps and wireframes of a new website for the The Salient Group some months back, when the market was really hot, but there just wasn’t the time needed to devote enough attention to it. Fast forward to February of 2009, and the markets had cooled (to say the least). Salient wanted to take advantage of this time to get the new website (version 2.0) back on track, and take advantage of all the latest and greatest forms of communication and social media integration.
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For the 2008 Red Bull Elevation, we moved the contest to the Parque Metropolitano in Guadalajara, Mexico for a change of flavour. While Guadalajara certainly doesn’t have the glam of Whistler, everybody loved going down to Mexico to hang for a few days and chill out in May.
This video was produced by Red Bull Mexico (the music in this video is certainly what I wouldn’t have picked, but it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever heard). Be sure to watch the HD version of the video.
Over 1,000,000 views as of December 2009. Wow.
Overview video of the 2007 Metro Jam contest in Singapore, filmed for the RushHD Channel.
Below are a few more videos from the contest that took place at Somerset Park in downtown Singapore.
Ryan Nyquist Profile.
Chris Doyle profile.
Paul Roberts Profile
Video footage of the last Red Bull Elevation held in Canada – our last contest in Whistler. Red Bull filmed the entire event as they always have on crazy HD cameras, and almost none of the footage has ever been seen. In the past, they produced 24 minute highlight promos for television (see the other 2005 and 2006 videos linked below), and unfortunately for this final year, only 3 short clips were produced, and they went straight to YouTube. A real shame… Maybe someday this footage will make it’s way into the public domain.
In addition to this Pro Finals clip, you can also check out the Qualifiers video, and a Practice/Warm-up video.
Almost 275,000 views as of December 2009.
Produced by Freeride Entertainment.
Metro Jam promo video from Chris Young on Vimeo.
A 3:20 video made to showcase the Metro Jam BMX contest experience. Filmed by various people (including footage provided by Props), I put together this edit, and intro graphic. Footage was all filmed at the 2006 Toronto Metro Jam at the Ricoh Coliseum.
Song: ‘Hip Hop’ by Mos Def.
This video promo was put together for a Solo Mobile sponsorship proposal in 2006. We wanted to showcase the energy and talent at our Metro Jam events – something you just don’t get at the larger corporate TV events. This isn’t the greatest quality output… It’s all I have in my archive though.
2005 Toronto Metro Jam Pro Finals overview from Chris Young on Vimeo.
Pro Highlights reel from the 2005 Toronto Metro Jam at the Ricoh Coliseum that I edited. Filming by Dan Rigby.
Song: Bloc Party ‘Like Eating Glass’
Here’s a highlights video I put together for the 2005 Toronto Metro Jam pro finals a few years back. This edit was cranked out in a matter of hours so that I could get it online ASAP.
My parents are in town for a week, so we went to the Apple Festival at the UBC Botanical Garden on the weekend to taste some of the 60+ varieties of apples. My parent’s hadn’t even been in town for 24 hours and they already make an appearance on CNN. My dad gets a speaking roll, coming in at the 2:41 mark at the blind taste test of a couple different apples. You can see my mom and I just off to the right.
Katie introduces the new Apple cultivar (SPA493) at 2:28.
Just before we went to the Apple Fest, we stopped by Nitobe Garden for a quick tour to see the fall colours. The garden was looking amazing, so of course I shot a ton of photos. Here’s one of them here… I’ll try to post more later.
Learn more about the Apple Festival here. The original iReport video can be found here.
2009 Hell Track BMX Race at Vanier Park from Chris Young on Vimeo.
You can read more about the Hell Track race here…
