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Screenprint
2022
Two Campers in Cloud Country
Two Campers in Cloud Country is a poem by American poet Sylvia Plath.
The poem speaks about nature as a completely separate civilization from the land of humans, making it a place that is immortal, infinite, and solid; the complete opposite of the world of humans. The world outside the city is free, wild, and devoid of our rules and restrictions. A human in this world is smaller, mortal, finite. We are only transient beings in the face of the unending force of nature.
This is a screen-printed triptych based on an excerpt from that poem; “I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I’m here.”
The three images were created in three consecutive stages.
Book design
2022
Thomas Schütte
Thomas Schütte is a German-born artist who works in a variety of mediums including sculpture, watercolour, models, and glass. His work is impressive, in both size and variety, and his tone comes across as sincere, dry, and self-aware.
This project asked us to create a coffee table book based on the work of an artist. The scope included a cover, interior spread design and grid system, and a display case.
Website
2022
Optica
Optica is an artist-run and volunteer-based art gallery in Montreal that offers exhibits, features symposiums and artist talks, and hosts an exchange program residency with a gallery in France. They also feature a digital archive for artists and visitors alike to browse.
The new design aims to enhance the user experience and give a facelift to the website, so that the user experience and information hierarchy is more comprehensive and intuitive.
OPTICA
OPTICA
Packaging
2022
Plasters
Plaster packaging is outdated, unattractive, and hard to navigate. The new idea had to be visually appealing, easy to read, and be translatable to a variety of colours and styles.
The goal of this project was to re-evaluate the way we interact with plasters, and introduce a new system and design based away from the current market’s norms.
Advertising
2022
Untitled goose game
The Untitled Goose Game is a single-player game where you play as a mischievous goose, wreaking havoc and causing trouble in a small village in order to complete your list of tasks.
In a creative team of three people, our goal was to create an advertising pitch for a three-panel campaign for the well-loved “Untitled Goose Game.” The campaign should feature a tagline and an expandable application for merchandise and other uses.
Teammates: Tiffanny Li Tsang Wan, Clara Nitura
Poster
2022
Piano-Soleil
Piano-Soleil is a piano piece written by Denis Gougeon. It is the first song in the ten-piece suite, each one representing the sun or a planet in our galaxy, and interpreted by a different instrument. This first piece acts as the introduction, its theme returning in each one of the following nine compositions. It is majestic, flowy, grand, fast and slow, bright, scintillating.
The mandate of this project was to create a concert poster for the musical piece, to be played at a given date and location, and design a vinyl, sleeve, and jacket to match.
Poster
2023
At the Intersection of Form & Function
This project, which happens every year for the third-year students of the graphic design program of Dawson College, asks students to create a poster for their end-of-year vernissage. It must rely on the knowledge cultivated over the course of the program, and its goal is to announce the event with a unique theme or concept. It must be visually appealing, demonstrate successful use of hierarchy, and all technical elements must be applied with intention and sophistication.
Branding
2023
Paris K.
Paris K. is a greek-born, US-based eyewear designer. He creates eyewear that is fashion-forward, innovative, mesmerizing and unique, and that aims to bring new life and spice up the eyewear fashion industry.
This project served as an introduction to the world of branding design, by asking us to provide a new visual identity and rebrand an already-established brand, with a new logo, visual language, and elaborated mockups for packaging and other applications.
Book design
2022
The Graphic Design Handbook
Dawson College’s Graphic Design program is a three-year program that covers an immense variety of design topics, as well as the history and subjects that are parallel and overlapping.
To create an informational booklet that walks the reader through the Graphic Design program of Dawson College, from the courses to their content to the professors that teach them. The approach should be designed intentionally and with a strong driving concept.
Food
2019
Figs, Honey, Coffee, Squid
This series of images was created as part of my graduating photography portfolio from Dawson College’s professional photography program.
A mix of studio lighting and natural light, the series was an exercise in my personal expression of foods that I could find around me.
Conceptual
2022
A Story of Modern Love, of the Self and Other
These images are excerpts from a series that was created as my first final portfolio during my studies in photography.
The form and layout of the photographs come from old, classical paintings, on top of which have been imposed a concept of love; each photograph represents a different facet. Love is represented in so many different ways, and one feeling can elicit a multitude of emotions. This is an attempt at that interpretation.
The Red String of Fate
The Red String of Fate is a concept that originates from Chinese folklore. The red string ties two people together; the string may knot but never break, and as such the two people are destined to love each other.
Innocence
Innocence in love is being naive and ignorant of the trials and hardships of such a feeling. But it is also being pure, and experiencing love in its simplest and most perfect way. Innocence is untainted by love’s blood and, by its very nature, remains beautiful in its truthful authenticity.
Sharing Love, Sharing Happiness
Happiness and love have long been two concepts that are closely related. After a long life together, you can learn to find happiness in the simpler things; quiet mornings together, shared silences, a gifted bouquet of flowers. The quiet brightness embodies the love and happiness.
Opposites Attract
We’ve all heard this phrase before, have we not? It’s an amusing idea, how two things, though perhaps opposite in nature, may somehow find a way to get along. Or, if not opposite in nature, then opposite in thought, in culture, in spirit. And yet somehow, they complete each other.
Loneliness
Love can also exist in absence. Loneliness, for example, is the feeling of lacking love. The feeling that you’re missing something important to your existence. Loneliness, much like darkness, is the absence of light. Loneliness is dark, and loneliness is empty.
Film
2019-2020
California
I spent the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020 in California, staying with some friends in the San Carlos area near Half Moon Bay, just outside of San Francisco. They took me sightseeing, grocery shopping, on the drive to downtown San Fran. We went hiking, we saw the sea lions, we even managed to make it down to LA for thanksgiving weekend. It was the middle of winter, and yet the avocado tree was in full production and I had fresh avocado toast every morning. I think back on it as a marvellous experience in a surreal world.
I documented most of the trip on my 35mm film camera and whatever miscellaneous rolls of film I had brought with me (Fuji Pro 400H, Kodak Ultramax, Kodak Portra 400). Here are some of those shots.
Portraiture
2016 - 2019
portraits
Here is a collection of portraits shot during my studies in photography. Some were created for assignments, some were shot with friends or family.
Cuba
Miscellaneous
Chiara
Scannography
2016 - 2023
Scannography
Scannography is a visual medium that uses a scanner to create the image. By manipulating, lifting, dragging, or jiggling the subject across the scanner bed as it’s being scanned, you can create cool effects like chromatic aberration, weird elongations, jagged edges, or sudden cuts on the image.
I first experimented with scannography during my studies in photography, and it’s a medium that seems to always be in the back of mind, and I seem to always be searching for a way to use it.
Here are a few images that I created in this method. The first set was done in 2016, the second, more recently, during the winter semester of 2023, for the covers of Dawson’s school newspaper, The Plant.
Jane Pipa Jones is a graphic designer from Montreal, Canada. before completing their degree in design from Dawson college, they did the same whole thing in photography. After six years of getting off at the same metro stop everyday, she now enjoys exploring the combination and juxtaposition of these two forms of art and communication.
Pipa is looking to do more exploration in book design, screen print, lino print, web design, typography, and poster design.
Hiya! Please call me Pipa! It’s short for Pipaluq, a name with Scandinavian origins. I was born and raised in Montreal, but my upbringing was strongly influenced by my parents’ Danish and English backgrounds. I speak French fluently, would love to know Danish, and have an eternal love for bread, matcha lattes, and snowy Christmas eves.
I would love to have a quick chit chat with you! Send me a DM or an email, and I will get back to you asap :)
