Leonard Rooney, Graphic Designer, Website Designer, Illustrator, Artist, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Vicky Sjohall
September 2009: A cd package for Vancouver recording artist Vicky Sjohall, features photography by Rhonda Dent.

Gowlland Harbour
August 2009: A new Flash based website for Gowland Harbour Resort & Conference Centre features lush photography of the resort on British Columbia's beautiful Quadra Island. The site features a dynamic, user changeable, photo gallery that I wrote from scratch using Action Script 3. Action Script 3's new programing and display layer features are also called upon to produce smooth cross-disolve page transitions.

Encryptstick
May 2009: A corporate product introduction video for Encryptstick. The project is built using available product artwork and voice over sound file from Encyptstick's agencies, bBold and Mokamedia with extra stock photos and video clips from iStock.com. The entire 1:30 presentation was constructed and edited using Apple's Final Cut Express.

Down To Earth
January 2009: A website for General Paint shows off their Down To Earth colour collection. Each colour was named by an actual person from across Canada and the site tells the story of each colour. The site is built using Flash and ActionScript 3. It's a single frame movie and all movements programmatic based on user input.

awp
December 2008: A website for retail display specialists, AWP (Advance Wire Products), uses standards based html, css, and web 2.0 display techniques.

Canada Line
June 2008: A redesign of a public information site for Vancouver's new Canada Line. An expansion to Vancouver's existing Sky Train system, Canada Line connects our YVR Vancouver International Airport and the City of Richmond to Vancouver's downtown core. Construction has been ongoing since 2005 and is scheduled for completion in November of 2009, well in time for Vancouver's 2010 Winter Olympics.

BC Hydro Site C
April 2008: A redesign of the Site C section of the BC Hydro website. The redesign is mainly simple html and css but the real challenge was having to do all the work on-site at the BC Hydro offices, learning using their content management system and working within their existing site template.

Melanie Dekker's New CD
February 2008: A cd package for Vancouver recording artist Melanie Dekker. We extended the ideas from earlier poster work (see below) with foreground photographs by Noel Hendrickson and the B&W background image, 'Motel,' by goldhafen came from iStock.com.

First Nations
November 2007: website for BC First Nations Forestry Council offers both a low and hi bandwidth solution. The site presents a large body of content discussing the pine-beetle problem in the interior of British Columbia. Art direction by Monty Sheldan of swca.ca

Imperial Sign
April 2007: Corporate website for Imperial Sign Corp. A Flash based site with a backend PHP/mySQL administration site providing content management for Sign and Project photos and information.

Moto Mel
March 2007: A composite poster image for Vancouver recording artist Melanie Dekker. Melanie supplied the foreground photograph by Noel Hendrickson and the B&W background image, 'Motel,' by goldhafen came from iStock.com.

Oliver
March 2007: A new web site for Vancouver recording artists, Oliver. Flash-based site with php/mySQL back end administration and product database management. Features advanced automatic (preemptive on-demand) page loading, dynamic content management, Flash-based shopping cart, mp3 player with playlist management, ubiquitous control strip.

Murchies
December 2006: An ecommerce/catalog site for Murchies. This site was developed with bBold Design, but has since been taken over by another company who is quickly ruining it. So see it quickly.

Coco's New CD
December 2005: I actually completed the design work for Coco Love Alcorn's new cd over a month ago, but I'm always finding myself short on time when it comes to updating this site. This cd package was a team effort starting with a dress from Coco's Mom, followed by a beautiful set of photos by Vancouver photographer, Jessica Eaton. The rest was co-designed by Coco and myself. A complete pleasure and I'm very happy with the final result.

Joystick
January 2005: Highly animated, Flash-based, concept/music site for a Vancouver recording artists Joystick.

Caelo Tour
December 2004: A Flash-based animated product tour for Caelo Software, features scrubbable timeline.

Affiance
Corporate web site for Affiance. Built with html and css. Also uses some javaScript and php for page structuring.

Regency
Corporate web site for The Regency, a Vancouver real estate project. A small site, rapidly developed using html and css.

Renaissance
Corporate web site for The Renaissance, a Vancouver real estate project. One of my earliest Flash-based sites.

Kid Stuff
At work I rarely get to do large illustrations because they take too much time. My boss likes me to just do the concept sketches and then we hire an outside illustrator to complete the actual finished piece. But I got to do the work myself on the above illustration for a client who makes modular playground equipment—the subject of the piece being playground themeing. The work is a mix of traditional rendering, digital artwork and photography. The photography of the two children was professionally shot to fit this layout by Victor Dezso. The digital artwork was composed with Adobe Illustrator and everything was brought together and finished using Adobe Photoshop.

Photo Album: Calgary, Canada
In February 2003, I visited Calgary, Canada for the first time. My friend Carole, above, was kind enough to give me a great tour of the city. She was so knowledgeable that I got her to provide all of the captions for this collection of photos.

Mona Leather
"It's not a rip-off, it's a homage." Painted for a local fundraising event. If you take a look you'll see that it's not a direct copy of Mona Lisa. It's not her face, but I did loosely follow DaVinci's composition, colouring, and hands. Nowhere, however, do I even come close to the amount of work and detail found in Leonardo's original masterpiece. Vancouver residents should be able to recognize the background in which I include an idea of the city, Burrard Inlet from the First to Second Narrows, and our infamous East Hastings Street.

bBold Calendar
At work at bBold Design Group, we put together a promotional calendar for 2003. Myself and the other designers ran with the idea of "bBold" and came up with 12 months of b(something). My two months are above.

A Calendar
Digital artwork for City of Vancouver 2003 city worker's calendar has been used (with different colours) every year since.

St.Severin
While North America has seemingly been taken over by Starbucks, no one does café culture better than the french. When they're not behind the wheel of a car, they seem to know how to just sit and relax. Le Saint Severin can be found in the Latin Quarter of Paris.

Café Isle Saint Louis
Café Isle Saint Louis is one of the highly visible cafés on Ile St-Louis, which is generally considered to be the oldest part of Paris. People sitting here can look across the Seine River to the second, larger island, Ile de la Cité and Notre Dame Cathedral.

Please, check back again, I'll be adding new works soon.