Hi, I’m Hoi-En.

Smart cre­at­ive that will rock your socks off. Available for freel­ance work… let’s talk.

hello@threeapples.ca
+1 604.848.8333

Creative Folks

Dan’s Pet Shop
I’ve had the priv­ilege of work­ing with Dan Turcotte and DPS sev­eral times over the years. Always stel­lar work and super great team.

DPS has pro­duced award win­ning audio and video con­tent for brands like Toyota, ING Direct, Sunlight, Axe Bodyspray, and many many more. DPS has also scored and pos­ted audio for pro­gram­ming on sev­eral net­works includ­ing ESPN, CBC, CMT, Vision and The Food Network. We are team of highly spe­cial­ized dir­ect­ors, pro­du­cers, com­posers and engin­eers who deliver amaz­ing res­ults every time.

Résumé

I’m a visual designer with fif­teen years of exper­i­ence. I love white space, ampersands and laugh­ing at old print ads.

EXPERIENCE

Three Apples Studio | April 1995 — present
Three Apples Studio is my freel­ance cre­at­ive com­pany. Over the years I’ve provided web and graphic design ser­vices includ­ing concept, web­site design/redesign, advert­ising and mar­ket­ing for online and print, and iden­tity design/refresh.

Riptown Media | Senior Designer (con­tract) | November 2007 — September 2010
At Riptown, I designed online and print ads, land­ing pages, email pro­grams and a vari­ety of other mar­ket­ing ini­ti­at­ives for their enter­tain­ment clients. (This was a con­tract pos­i­tion and I worked part-time both on and off-site)

Grey Interactive | Associate Creative Director | January 2004 — May 2005
As ACD, I was the design lead for key inter­act­ive cli­ents such as Pedigree and Dare Foods. During my ten­ure at Grey I was respons­ible for two com­plete redesigns of pedigree.com. In addi­tion to design­ing suc­cess­ful web­sites and cam­paigns, I also spear­headed new busi­ness ini­ti­at­ives. Other respons­ib­il­it­ies included ment­or­ing and dir­ect­ing a small team of designers.

Grey Interactive | Senior Art Director | March 2003 — January 2004
As senior design lead for the inter­act­ive divi­sion, I designed web­sites, online mar­ket­ing pro­grams and ad cam­paigns for agency cli­ents includ­ing Canon, CBC, Dare Foods, Hot Wheels, Lavalife and Aim Trimark.

VBDI (now Arnold Interactive) | Senior Designer | March 2000 — March 2003
While at the VBDI, I designed web­sites and micros­ites for cli­ents such as Bank of Montréal, Sprint Canada, Atlas Wines, and Canadian Tire.

Earlier exper­i­ence includes work for PC Financial, The Sony Store, FTD.com and IBM.

SKILLS

My primary graphic design tools are Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, a sketch­pad, my Copic pens and my Wacom tablet.

EDUCATION

Honours BA (Fine Arts Studio) with Distinction from the University of Toronto