Quan Duong, Web & Graphic Designer
My name is Quan, I am 3rd year-student of the York Sheridan Design Program in Toronto, Canada. I have earned a diploma from the Web Design program offered at Humber College in Toronto. My personal experiences include various freelance work for print and web, which gave me the chance to get experience in a professional work environment. This has helped build my confidence and skills not only to design, but to work with other people across different professions.
Sum-up
Working: I'm available for work.
Studying: Graphic Design at York University.
Living: Toronto, ON, Canada.
Hometown: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam.
Contact
Feel free to contact me about work, feedback or questions you may have, or simply to say hi!
email: duongtriquan@gmail.com
find me
general
Highly creative
Working well in group or independently
Speaking English & Vietnamese
skills
Advance: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver.
Intermediate: HTML / CSS / jQuery.
Basic skill: Office Word
education
YORK UNIVERSITY (Sept. 2010 - expected Apr. 2014)
York / Sheridan Joint Program: Bachelor of Design
HUMBER COLLEGE (Sept. 2007 - May 2009)
Multimedia Design and Production Technician.
Graduated with Honours
Contact
Feel free to contact me about work, feedback or questions you may have, or simply to say hi!
email: duongtriquan@gmail.com
experience
ACTIVE MEDIA WORKS (Dec. 2009 – May 2012)
Web / UI design, and front-end development.
Working on a contract basic.
RECAST MEDIA INC. (Aug. 2009 – May 2010)
UI / UX design, and front-end development.
Rebranding company logo and identity.
Working on a contract basic.
CARTE BLANCHE CREATIVE (Mar. 2009 - Apr. 2009)
Basic Flash/AS3 development: creating splash banners.
Doing internship.
FREELANCE (Summer 2008 & Summer 2012)
UI design, front-end development.
Re-designing graphic series for Donut stores (The Gioi Donut, HCMC, Vietnam).
System / Donut Shop 2013
The series of graphic works for a Donut Shop (Ho Chi Minh City, VN). In 2008, I created the graphic series for the store when it was first opened, and I've been fortunate enough to come back and work on the new graphic series. My thought was to bring in new, modern-looking-feel to the store.
Included: wall-papers, package-outlook, and business card.
general / waken tea package
The package for tea: Inspired the fact that tea leaf can be boiled and drunk fresh, I built the concept of teabag as a figure of the leaf. I also looked at the idea of lotus (lotus tea) in nature and in architecture. This container can be used as a cookies container.
general / Design Culture Today
School-project: Poster on series of talks about design today.
Size: 18" x 24"
general / fear [shadow]
Typography experiment / express: constructing type / work from found-objects. The shadow of the wire forms the word: FEAR.
general / space + place
Collaged poster reflects several locations that I've been explored. The poster is created by collaging several photographs of areas.
editorial / archexplore magazine
Magazine ARCHexplore explores the completely new way of travel: architectural travel.
Size: 8" x 10"
Editorial / Lantern Festival Booklet
Editorial / Secret Garden
Secret Garden: A booklet on chosen musical band; expressing their style through the layout and typography.
Size: 7.75" x 10.25"
Editorial / Development of Vietnamese Language
Editorial / Frank O. Gehry
Booklet on renown architect Frank O. Gehry: featuring his life, his style, and his works.
Size: 10" x 10"
personal / stark [iron man]
"Everyman needs his suit"
Digital Painting: Tony Stark + His Suit, part of my personal Avengers' project :)
Featured on Abduzeedo's Daily Inspiration #1380
personal / The Mighty Thor
"Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor."
Digital Painting: The Mighty THOR
Featured on Abduzeedo's Daily Inspiration #1377
personal / Cool Mama + Papa
