Finding creative and innovative ways to communicate - that's what I like to do. I have a broad range of skills that include project management, event organization, copy-writing, GIS analysis and map production, web content development and infographic design. Here are some examples of projects I've worked on.
Provided the concept, copy, and layout for e-card. After providing creative direction for the 2011 International Day for Disaster Reduction logo, I took the essential element from the logo to produce a holiday greeting card for UNISDR. The image uses words from the disaster risk reduction terminology to highlight the silhouette of the children from the International Day logo. In addition, a landing page was developed to … Read more →
In late September 2010, I started working with UNISDR, the strategic arm of the United Nations Secretariat that works on disaster risk reduction. One of the specific tasks I was given was to redesign and redevelopment the organization’s corporate website. The idea had been floating around the organization for a few years. It wasn’t an easy task since the organization had been using five different websites with variations … Read more →
Provided the concept, architecture and design for this website for a private French tutor. It also includes a private workspace for students to access documents and other learning materials based on each lesson. The site was designed using WordPress and has a minimalist layout to stay inline with the tutors vision for the service – simple, easy, and innovative for students to learn French. You can see the website here.
Conceptualized and designed this logotype on a fictional coffee brand from Kenya as part of an online graphic design course on typography and logo design. Only two things were given for the project was a brief and a two-week period to complete the logotype. The process included coming up with the concept, researching type and background on the fictional coffee brand, sketching the idea, and designing the logotype on Illustrator.
As part of a graphic design project on photography, I wrote the copy, photographed, designed and art directed this poster for a Voigtlander lens I recently bought. The concept was to practice photography in a studio setting and to take the photograph and put it into a advertising format. The main photograph was taken in New York, near NY University, the lens photo was taken in a home-made studio, and the … Read more →
This logotype was created for a personal graphic design project. The brief was to produce a logotype that captured the represented the meaning of a word. Mind maps, typography research, and sketching were used to conceptualize and design this logotype, before using illustrating on the the computer.
I was approached by a community policing project run by the Asia Foundation and funded by the United States International Aid Department (USAID) to help create a logo for their project. The logo was designed with community and police feedback to gain their acceptance of the logo and ultimately of the project itself. The green represents the local community-based initiative, the blue for the official color of the police force in … Read more →
In early 2010 I decided to redesign my resume or Curriculum Vitae in somewhat of less traditional way. The idea was to highlight my work around the world in a visual way and make the document standout more given that I was applying for highly competitive jobs in the United Nations and other international organizations. The document is only two pages. The first page is designed with a map to highlight … Read more →
The Early Recovery Project for the United Nations Development Programme needed to report on the progress of the Project to their donors. This map was part of the report to highlight the number of projects in Timor-Leste funded under the NGO Small Grants Fund. This includes the total funding for the projects, as well as the locations of these small grant projects to help the development and rebuilding of communities around … Read more →
The Early Recovery Project for the United Nations Development Programme needed to report on the progress of the Project to their donors. This map was part of the report to highlight the number of mediations and dialogues the Project had with local communities to help with reintegrating families who had left because of political crisis back into their communities.
While working for the United Nations Resident Coordinator’s office in Timor-Leste, I was asked to put together a virtual library so that all the UN’s publications from Timor-Leste could be accessed online. At the time there was no systematic organization of the UN’s publications in an easy place to find. The virtual library was built using WordPress and featured tags and categories to organize the publications.
I was approached by the Environment Unit of the United Nations Development Programme in Timor-Leste to help design a logo for a newsletter that the Unit was producing. The purpose of the newsletter was to highlight current environment initiatives taking place in the country, as well as a way to educate readers about environmental issues in the country.
While working in Timor-Leste, I helped an Australian/French humanitarian photographer to put together a website to showcase his photos from his work around the world. The website was developed using WordPress and was built so the photographer could manage his own photo collections. Originally designed in black, the website was changed in late 2010 to utilize a white background to ensure the photographers vision of a minimalist style to focus on … Read more →
As part of a Early Recovery Project for the United Nations Development Programme, this interactive map was developed to showcase the possibility of using Google Maps and data from the project to help real-time project management and monitoring. The Google Map uses information entered into a Google spreadsheet to show the projects spatially and by organization. The idea was to have each project manager for each initiative to maintain the spreadsheet … Read more →
As part of an Early Recovery project with the United Nations Development Programme in Timor-Leste, one of the objectives of the project was to help communities that were displaced during the political crisis resettle back into their communities. UNDP and IOM were working on community infrastructure projects to help with reintegration of communities. The map was produced based on information submitted by both organizations and the number of internally displaced people … Read more →
This flyer was created during preparations for GIS Day to explain the Geographic Information Group of Timor-Leste. With the help of members in the GIG, the flyer includes descriptions of the group in English, Tetun, and Portuguese. As the GIG became more established by the end of 2009, the GIG met approximately once a month and included a growing number of members from the government and international organizations. A temporary Google … Read more →
In cooperation with the Government of Timor-Leste, I co-chaired the country’s Geographic Information Group (GIG) between 2008-2010. The GIG was used as a forum for all government bodies and international organizations using spatial information and data for development projects to come together to share information, challenges, and experiences. One of the key activities the GIG accomplished in 2009 was to organize a one-week event to celebrate GIS Day and to showcase … Read more →
This collaborative website was developed for the humanitarian community in Timor-Leste to support their work and information exchange for coordination relief and response operations. One of the main issues from coordinating various United Nations organizations involved in humanitarian relief was understanding what each other were doing to make relief efforts more effective and efficient. This site was created as part of a request by the humanitarian coordination unit and the humanitarian … Read more →
In addition to designing the HR Update logo, I also edited and designed the layout and publishing of the newsletter. The quarterly newsletter on humanitarian, disaster preparedness and recovery activities in Timor-Leste highlighted current and potential humanitarian conditions in the country, which include the issues of food security, internally displaced people’s resettlement, housing, flooding, and contingency planning. You can find the three issues of the Humanitarian and Recovery Update here.
This logo was designed for a quarterly newsletter on the humanitarian and recovery situation in Timor-Leste. The newsletter was produced on behalf of the humanitarian coordinator in the country. The logo is simple in design to highlight the topic of the newsletter, making it easy to refer to it (i.e. “The HR update”).
This map was created to provide an overall analysis of the flood vulnerability of areas in Timor-Leste, as part of an assessment prior to the rainy season in the country. The map was developed to support the humanitarian response as well as to help develop contingency plans by the United Nations and emergency preparedness measures to support the Government of Timor-Leste. The spatial and statistical data used was from national statistics … Read more →
In preparation for a planning meeting with one of the poorest districts in Timor-Leste, this compilation was created to highlight the education issues in the district. The statistics were drawn from a database the Ministry of Education was maintaining. One of the areas that the government wanted to look into was non-formal education since the education sector required both formal and non-formal education opportunities, particularly in this isolated district.
Working with the Ministry of Education and UNIFEM in Timor-Leste, I developed a series of infographics to showcase the education statistics the government was collecting as part of a gender assessment. In this graphic, the idea was to highlight the difference between male and female staff in the Ministry to understand the gender balance in the government and potentially look at creating opportunities for both men and women to work in … Read more →
In March/April 2009, I was approached by UNIFEM and the Ministry of Education in Timor-Leste to help them visualize statistics for a gender assessment of the education system in the country. At the time there was a big project to collect and organize stats on education to help the government develop a strategic plan to educate girls and boys in this newly emerging country. We worked to get the most basic … Read more →
As part of an ongoing project on Natural Hazard Risk for UNOCHA’s regional office in Asia and the Pacific, after analyzing and producing a hazard risk map for each country in the region, the final accumulation was to produce a publication. This was the cover I designed using Wordle. The rest of the publication was also prepared using Adobe InDesign. The publication was not produced as far as I know since … Read more →
As part of an ongoing project on mapping hazard risk with the Asia and Pacific Regional Office of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), I helped to develop this interactive Google Map to highlight the risk data the office was collecting and processing. This included hazard risk data developed by UNOCHA, earthquake locations, tsunami prone areas, historical storm patterns, and the location of the offices in … Read more →
When I was living in Bangkok, I was approached to develop concepts for a logo for local jewellery business. The ideas was to showcase the brand of the company and at the same time make sure that there was reference to the Thai nature of the operation. These were four concepts developed, but they were never used as the company underwent restructuring.
Part of my consulting work with the Asia and the Pacfic regional office of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs was to help to improve their website usability and functionality. Since the basic OCHA website architecture was based on the DotNetNuke content management system, updating the website with the amount of map products the office produced was a time consuming task. In addition, the website only had … Read more →
Developed an A1-size poster for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) to highlight the office’s work, as well as to showcase the hazard and risk mapping the organization was involved in. It was made as an educational piece to support the office’s work on emergency preparedness and hazard risk in the Asia and Pacific region.
As a personal project, I wanted to see the kind of concepts for a personal logo. The main issue was to utilize the initials of my name or variations of letters in my name. I used the logos for my resume for a few months, but decided that the logo was better as a concept than for implementation (for now).
As part of a course on urban design for my Masters programme at RMIT University in Australia, I created the strategy and concept to redesign my neighborhood when I was living in Bangkok, Thailand. The idea was to create a greener and more pedestrian friendly environment. You can download the whole urban design plan here (3.5MB).
In mid-2005, I was working with a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Skopje Macedonia to help them improve their international communication and organizational development. I was approached to help a local organization working to help Roma people in the country to come up with a new logo. The four-leaf clover was a graphic that was already associated with the organization so I used some basic typographic styles to create a series of … Read more →
Working with the United Nations Development Programme on a HIV/AIDs and development programme for Southeast Asia, I researched, wrote, and designed this publication that was released in 2004. This how-to guide stresses the importance of mapping as a tool for understanding and responding to HIV vulnerability. The content for the guide came out of an expert meeting on mapping from the organizations highlighted on the cover. You can find this publication … Read more →
As part of a series of covers on HIV/AIDS, development, environment, agriculture and transportation, I designed this cover to represent the publication’s content on the link between Climate Change and HIV/AIDS. In addition to being the photographer for the cover, I also put together a series of photos to create the design. The publication raises the argument that the concept of hotspots, in which climatic factors can play an important role, … Read more →