Portfolio
The Stan Cassidy Dream Again Campaign
The soon to be replaced but always great to look at Stan Cassidy Foundation Dream Again Campaign web site.
Mogal Fish Clothing
Clothes that bite. If you don’ t know any graphic designers personally, please let me tell you this simple fact … we get bored a lot and when we get bored, we make tee shirts.
New Business Cards for Tinker Priest Media
The card was a lot of fun to design as it features the new logo.
Care Connections
Working with Norah Mallory, I put together this web site for the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation.
Ruin My Date
While I was teaching at the Center for Arts and Technology here in Fredericton, I kept walking into local coffee shops at just the wrong moment.
Feeling Blue
This piece was created from an original photograph and heavily modified in Adobe Photoshop during the summer of 2005. For a while I offered it for sale as a printed piece. These days, it’s simply available online as part of my portfolio.
Dark Lady
This piece was created from an original photograph and heavily modified in Adobe Photoshop during the summer of 2005. For a while I offered it for sale as a printed piece. These days, it’s simply available online as part of my portfolio.
Green Vase
This piece was created from an original photograph and heavily modified in Adobe Photoshop during the summer of 2005. For a while I offered it for sale as a printed piece. These days, it’s simply available online as part of my portfolio.
Rodonic Corporation Website
This was an early version of the Rodonic Corporation web site but it’s still one of my favorites.
Business Card for Rodonic Corporation
When I was running our little design group in Ottawa, we needed a technology image that would easily communicate our high tech nature.
Reading Promotes Terrorism
When I was a young boy my mother always told me that if you don’t have anything nice to say about somebody, don’t say it to there face. This poster was from a series of anti-war, anti-Bush materials from an old web site called PlanetBush.
Save Democracy
Yes, I know it’s easy to make fun of Bush now but I was doing it years ago :) I just came across this on my hard drive today and it cracked me up so now I’m sharing it with the world.
Loyal American Kids
Years ago, I had a web site called Planet Bush where I posted a lot of fun anti-Bush materials. After I got a job at DFAIT I thought it would be a good idea to take it down but I kept some of my favorite design pieces.
Sick Riot Photography
Sick Riot Photography is a professional portfolio web site for Christopher Ross, built in WordPress it’s simple design is used to focus attention on the images.
Tinker Priest Media
Over the summer of 2008, I decided to stop operating my own graphic design business (Getaway Graphics) full time and instead focus on supporting and assisting Montreal based designer Christopher Bavota in his lifelong dream of building better web sites.
Federal Government of Canada
There is a perception among many web developers that everything we build or show our clients has to be pretty but I believe that sometimes it’s more important for web applications to conform to standards, rather than be attractive.
Authors Guild of America
The Author’s Guild uses to the tool to allow members across America to publish low cost, effective marketing tools with little or no technical knowledge. Using PHP and an online payment gateway, the tool allows for real time publishing of template driven web sites.
Yorkville University
The Yorkville University web site provided me a great opportunity to implement the WordPress engine on a large scale web project. The result, a dynamic and professional web site that can updated quickly and results in high search engine positioning.
Getaway Graphics
With the advent of the Internet, I barely get to flex my print muscle any longer but corporate ID work is still one of my favorite ways to keep in good shape.
DNA Studios
DNA Game Studios came to us in the fall of 2007 for a new gaming logo. I have to thank James Kirkland for helping me on this logo, he’s a brilliant artist here in Fredericton who studied Adobe Illustrator for days until he was able to get this just right for me.
Biology Illustrations
Recently with the help of some great local artists, I completed a series of over 1,100 technically illustrations for the Department of Education including a series of Biology Illustrations designed for online learning opportunities.
Getaway Graphics
This web site is designed to function as not only a great marketing piece but also as a great web document, auto formatting for mobile devices, the visually impaired and a variety of computer systems.
Logo Samples From 2005
I’ve lost count of the number of logo designs I’ve worked on over the years, in truth there have simply been too many to count and some of my best never made it to final production.
Getaway Graphics Business Cards
The Getaway Graphics business card design was created to be a cost effective marketing tool. I did this in the summer of 2005 for my own self promotion.
The Chemicals of Sarnia
made this shirt for my little brother a few years back, it’s my own personal tribute to the fine city of Sarnia Ontario.
Condom Girl
When I first moved to New Brunswick in 2004, I did a series of Adobe Illustrator projects and one of these was for the New Brunswick AIDS awareness program. I won a second place prize for my piece called “Condom Girl”.
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My name is Christopher Ross, in the past I have made a living by picking grapes, catching chickens, working in a warehouse, cutting vinyl, designing logos, teaching college, writing manuals, taking photographs, giving lectures, pushing pixels, selling radios and flipping burgers. Jobs are like a pair of socks, if you don’t change them once and a while you get stuck in one place. Here’s my bio.
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