Owen Minns · Portfolio
This page presents samples of my work, and is a sample in its own right. There is a bias towards visual media and writing samples, but regardless of the task or medium, I aim for simplicity, stylization, and technical precision. Most examples are presented as images viewable in your browser (.png or .jpg) or in Portable Document Format (.pdf).
Sections of this page: Photographs, Drawn and Painted, Logos, Symbols and Graphics, Covers for CDs, Other Documents, Print Media and Posters, Written Reports, Proposals and Other Writing.
Photographs
This is a sample of the photographs I have taken, with various cameras. For travelogues, see these albums posted on Google Photos: UK Cornwall, 2014 (132 items); UK London, 2014 (79); CA Nova Scotia, 2013 (200); CA Prince Edward Island, 2012 (50); CA Newfoundland, 2010 (451); and CA Toronto, 2008 (89).
Drawn and Painted
Logos, Symbols and Graphics
Covers for Media
Other Documents
Print Media and Posters
During the 1997-1998 academic year at Queen's, I was the Assistant Manager (Publishing) of the AMS Publishing & Copy Centre. As well as supporting a small team of other skilled graphic designers, I also had the opportunity to work with a number of clients, and I completed many graphic design and document production orders. Prior to that, I had earned an Editorial Board position at the Queen's Journal for my production work on the newspaper, where I overhauled the document template for the paper and facilited the training of section staff in online layout of the newspaper.
After this exposure to graphic design and document production, I have found that these skills are often still in high demand, and I have had much call to complete design projects, large and small.
(.png, 45kB)
Advert from the AMS Executive
to thank the Queen's Community.
(Horizontal tabloid half-page
for web newsprint.)
(.jpg, 43kB)
A poster to promote reproduction
at the Publishing and Copy Centre.
(Horizontal letter copy bond
for photocopy duplication.)
(.pdf, 101kB)
A print advert to review
our Executive election platform.
(.pdf, 27kB)
A print advert to solicit
student opinions.
(.jpg, 59kB)
Posters to promote a
Queen's Players show.
Written Reports, Proposals and Other Writing
(.pdf, 92kB)
First Appendix (.pdf, 12kB)
Second Appendix (.pdf, 11kB)
(.pdf, 80kB)
A brief sketch of HLA Hart's
rule of recognition in Canada.