James Barry is a multi-disciplinary designer living in Calgary, Alberta.

Web Design Projects

Print Design

Motion Graphics

Apparel Design

Identity and Logo Design

Personal Projects

Blu Seafood & Market

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 Calgary Blu Seafood and Market Website Design

A web presence created for Blu Seafood & Market in Calgary, a great little shop specializing in the freshest fish, lobsters, crabs, meats and much more. Work included information architecture, usability and interface design, photography (with a digital point & shoot, none the less!) branding, W3C Standards compliant XHTML and CSS, javascript, jquery, simple CMS integration and Search Engine Optimization ("Calgary Seafood Stores", "Fresh Fish Calgary" & "Fresh Seafood Calgary" on Google).

www.blusea.ca

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Chicago Chophouse

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Chicago Chophouse Website Design

A website redesign that I created for Chicago Chophouse in Calgary, a restaurant in the heart of downtown Calgary specializing in Serious Steaks and a World Class Wine Selection. My Work included information architecture, usability and interface design, W3C Standards compliant XHTML and CSS, javascript, jquery, Content management integration, Search Engine Optimization and setting up google analytics. The header banner on the homepage randomly selects between 5 different images to keep things fresh for returning visitors. This site was made at Clickspace.

www.chophousecalgary.com

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Better Life Fundraising

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Better Life Fundraising

A web presence designed for Better Life Fundraising to help simplify the fundraising process through an online store. Designed and then coded in standards compliant XHTML and CSS, javascript & jquery. The webiste is Search Engine Optimized. Visit Site (hosted locally)

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Fourward Systems

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fourward website design

A website design for fourward systems.

My Work included information architecture, usability and interface design based on existing brand collateral, W3C Standards compliant XHTML and CSS, javascript, jquery & Search Engine Optimization. I used cufon text replacement on headers to give the site a distinguished and unique look.

The site's architecture and design is optimized for intuitive navigation and readability.

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Mission Snow & Skate

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Mission Snowboards, Skateboards and BMX store in Calgary, Alberta.

A website redesign done for Mission Snow & Skate, a local Calgary retailer that sells snowboards, skateboards and BMX bikes. I created an easily updatable blog format for the site so that stores, employees & team riders could easily update and add new content, always keeping the site fresh to entice viewers to keep checking back.

My Work included information architecture, usability and interface design, W3C Standards compliant XHTML and CSS, javascript & jquery, a custom Wordpress theme from scratch, content management system integration, search engine optimization and setting up google analytics. The background image randomly selects between various imagery to keep things fresh for returning visitors. This site was made at Clickspace.

www.missionsnowandskate.com

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Motheaten Clothing

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Motheaten Clothing Website Design

A website for Motheaten Clothing, designed simply to showcase different collections from fashion designer Lana McCarroll. Work included information architecture, usability and interface design, image enhancements, filming, editing and video production, flash actionscript & animation, W3C Standards compliant XHTML, CSS, and simple CMS integration.

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Zulu Gourmet

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Website Design for Zulu Gourmet

A mock-up design for the landing page of Zulu Gourmet, an e-commerce slash social community website. Due to complications this site was never developed.

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Fresh K's

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Web Design for online sneaker head store

A mock-up page design for Fresh K's, an online fashion blog and e-commerce site mash-up site. Work included information architecture, usability and interface design. Due to complications this site was never developed.

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Olive Skateboards: Whippersnapper

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Skateboard Design for Olive Skateboards
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Olive Skateboards: Haida

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Another Skateboard Design for Olive Skateboards
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HTO Skateboard Design

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Skateboard Design for HTO Skateshop in Victoria
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Another Local Video

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DVD case design for Skaters Skate Shop in Calgary

Cover design for Skaters boardshop's "Another Local Video". I also did the motion graphics for this video, which can be seen below.

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Another Local Video

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Motion Graphics animation and design for Skaters in Calgary

Motion Graphics created for the intro to "Another Local Video". I also did all the editing and a small portion of the filming for the video.

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Go Skateboarding Day '07 Video

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Go Skateboarding Day Video Calgary 2007

A 5 minute short video based around Go Skateboarding Day 2007 in Calgary, created in collaboration with Brock Mitchell. Work included some filming, most of the editing & post production.

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Calgary Motorcade Intro

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Calgary Motorcade Motion Graphics

Motion Graphics created for the Calgary Motorcade, where Redbull hired limos, a dj, filmers & photographers and got together some local skaters and chauffeured them to different skate spots around the city and then took them to dinner. The footage was then edited and premiered that night. (This sequence was prepared ahead of time.)

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Skater's Love / Freak Factory

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Skaters Love Skateboards and Freak Factory Apparel Design
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Rain Cover Band Shirt Design

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Rain Beatles cover band t-shirt design

T-shirt design proposal for Rain, a beatles cover band based off of the beatles album, abbey road. View Full Version.

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Blu Seafood & Market

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Blu Seafood & Market Logo Design
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Simo Caffe / Legal Risk Consultants

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Simo Caffe and Legal Risk Consultants Logo Design
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HTO Skateshop / Zulu Gourmet

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HTO Skateshop and Zulu Gourmet Logo Design
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Scott & Deirdre

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Scott and Deirdre's Wedding Website Design

A web site for my sister and her fiance. Visit Site.

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Projector Photos

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Photography Experiments with a Projector

I shot some generic portraits of a friend and then used an overhead projector to project the image back onto his face, then I took some more photos of the face-on-face, these are the results.

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Name Script / Skull

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Hand Rendered Tattoo Name Script and Skull Illustration

A hand-rendered typographic treatment of my name in my own version of a tattoo style script and a couple of illustrated skulls. For the script I sketched it initially with pencil, scanned it into the computer, traced the sketch in illustrator and then brought it into photoshop for shading and further embellishments.