My name is Joel Friesen. I am a graphic artist and web developer. Lately I’ve been focusing heavily on web design and web development. I was traditionally taught to create illustrations, graphics and layout. These days I do a lot of semantic HTML, CSS, Wordpress and Drupal sites. I teach web design at Camosun College.
My artistic influences range from Saturday morning cartoons and comic books, to the point I mentored under comic book illustrator Ken Steacy for some years, 50’s automobile brochures, to art deco architecture and circus posters of the 1880’s. In other words; it ranges.
My father was a map maker and taught me the joys of understanding the world visually, my mom is an accountant, and from her I learned nothing and still, to this day, remain broke (edit: This is improving).
The one common element of my own personal work has to be the sense of humour or visual wit I put into my art. I love a sense of play and combing contrasting items to evoke a humorous reaction.
If you want me to turn your project into something really cool, I’ll be happy to help, simply contact me.
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