Toronto Star, Digital
While at The Toronto Star I held the position of Art Director, Digital. This involved overseeing the design and presentation of many larger projects and stories on The Star's website. Another large part of my role was helping to launch Star Touch, the tablet-only digital publication. Apart from the creation of templates and standards for the launch of the app itself, I would go on to oversee and design much of the content published on Star Touch from 2015 to 2017. Content would vary from lifestyle, food, politics, fashion and travel, but much of my focus was placed on the larger, hard-hitting investigative stories.
With the eventual wind-down of the Star Touch app, I continued to serve as Art Director for digital projects. We launched a mission to continue delivering the same thoughtful, informative and visually rich stories rarely seen in Canadian news media at the time. These stories would be published to thestar.com rather than only a dedicated app. With these projects we aimed to give readers the same high-quality visual journalism across all devices, whether they were reading on their desktop, tablet or mobile phone. Many of these projects were successful in attaining the longest engagement times ever for stories published on thestar.com.
View a selection of Toronto Star digital projects online: Vimy Ridge 10th Anniversary, Not in Service, Caged by Canada, Bound Tortured Killed
GONE: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
This extensive series of long-form stories won the top prize for Project of the Year at the National News Awards in 2016. Working closely with Toronto Star editors, investigative reporters, photographers and video editors, I served as Art Director and chief designer on the project, setting the visual tone that would then be used on follow-up pieces throughout the year.
