It Shouldn't Be Radical: How One Creative Director Took a Sabbatical
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I spoke with Emmy Award-winning creative director Joyce N. Ho about how hitting pause on the hustle helped her to find her joy again
In the 21st century nobody will be… Safe.
Recently I designed a poster for Queer Cinema Club, a Toronto film series, for their 30th anniversary screening of Safe (1995), directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore.
It was such a joy to design something in homage to this quiet, chilling film, which I found even more meaningful now, having experienced the mass illness of the 2020 pandemic.
Safe screens on November 19th at 7:30pm at the Paradise Theatre!
That which premieres
Some delightful news! That Which is Heard, the short documentary I worked on last year, will have its world premiere at DOC NYC as part of the Shorts: On the Other Side program on November 16th.
Directed by Ken Pham, the doc follows actor Shruti Kothari as she navigates the path back to performing after experiencing a stroke.
The buzzer-beater: Youngblood
I was asked last minute to design the titles to Youngblood, a contemporary spin on the 1980s hockey flick starring Rob Lowe. Directed by Hubert Davis (with whom I also worked on The Well), the film features Ashton James (star of 2024’s Boxcutter), Blair Underwood, Shawn Doyle, Joris Jarsky, Tamara Podemski, and Olunike Adeliyi (star of Village Keeper). I designed the film’s main title card, opening credits, score card graphics, and end crawl.
Mile End Kicks to premiere at TIFF
It’s been a long time coming! Mile End Kicks, Chandler Levack’s follow-up to 2022’s I Like Movies, will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival. I was asked to design the film’s title logo, opening credits, in-film text cards, and end credits. I’ve been part of this film since the beginning, designing the pitch deck for what was then called “Anglophone” back in 2018, so it’s such a joy to see it all come together.
The film was shot in Montréal and it stars Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, Stanley Simons, Juliette Gariépy, and Jay Baruchel.
It premieres on Thursday, September 4, 2025, at the Royal Alexandra Theatre.
Shook opens in theatres
After premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, Amar Wala’s feature directorial debut Shook is in theatres as of August 8! Starring Saamer Usmani (3 Body Problem), Amy Forsyth (The Gilded Age), Bernard White, and Pamela Mala Sinha, the film is “a loving portrait of a community with a sense of all the hidden gems that make Scarborough a distinct place to live, but also a world with its own unique complexities.” See the trailer.
I designed the opening titles, end titles, and end crawl for this one.
Boxcutter hits theatres
After premiering at SXSW in March, director Reza Dahya’s Boxcutter is opening in cinemas in Toronto this weekend! Designing the titles for this film was one of my favourite projects of 2024 and I’m so happy it’ll get a theatrical run in Toronto, where it was so beautifully shot.
I designed the opening titles, end card graphics, and end crawl for this one.
Talking Typography →
Kicking off the news section of my site with a fun recent interview! I spoke with Fast Company about typography in film and why some directors have a font that's their calling card. We talk about recent Academy Award-winner Sean Baker and his use of Aguafina, John Carpenter and Albertus, Woody Allen and Windsor, Wes Anderson and Futura, among others. Thanks to writer Zachary Petit!
Read A love affair with a typeface? For these famous directors, type is part of their art on Fast Company