HitchWhistler is a website I created from scratch shortly after moving to Vancouver. I realised, after having to drive multiple times to Whistler from Vancouver, that there was a big need for a digital hitchhiking community between the city and the ski resort.

I therefore took it on myself to design and code an online ridesharing community to get to the mountains and back. After just 3 months of activity, I already had over 600 members, with 350 trips organized, and 4 mentions in the local news.

While HitchWhistler is limited to parts of Western British Columbia, I'm working on a project to expand to the rest of Canada and the US for 2011, just in time for the new ski season. Look out for new developments on the project, this could be big!

Go to www.hitchwhistler.com.

HitchTofino is the sequel to HitchWhistler - a rideshare to get to the waves, in Tofino, on Vancouver Island, in Canada.

The success of HitchWhistler brought a mere 1,000 members to sign up to the service in just one season, so when the snow started melting, I was in need of another project, and HitchTofino was born!

I reused the code from HitchWhistler and simply changed the stylesheet and domain name. The success of HitchTofino is still to be proven but with already 150 members and over 50 trips in just a couple of months I think I'm on the right track!

Go to www.hitchtofino.com.

TheFuturists.ca is a website which features events and concerts in and around Vancouver.

I was contracted by the founders to revamp the site and add new functionality. They chose me from over 20 proposals, for my experience in Wordpress and my design skills.

New features included adding a calendar and a map for events and venues, as well as reorganizing the content according to the different types of medias they previously offered on the site. The website is still being built but should be launched in the middle of February.

Go to www.thefuturists.com/beta for a preview.

Family Portraits, The Film, is the story of families in Ukraine adopting children of different ethnic origins.

I approached the production company through Craigslist, and was almost immediately contracted to build them a website and some printing material (poster and flyer), as seen on the right.

This was a very quick turnaround piece for work, and I think the result is pretty good.

BL Lighting is a local Vancouver company, who deliver lighting products across North America and Europe.

I was commissioned to redesign and redevelop their website, after many years of lack of work on it.

I transformed the Wordpress CMS into a fully customizable product management system, where the products manager can easily add and amend products into the system.

Small budget, efficient product, quick delivery. This was quite a challenging project which turned out to be very successful - the client loved it!

Visit the BL Lighting website.

Small but fun project for a start-up video production company based in London, UK.

The owners of the business idea were starting from scratch. They therefore required some branding, a website, and some print work.

I took on the challenge and delivered the project in just over a month.

The site is available here, and click on the thumbnails to enlarge the pictures

Website promoting a villa on the coast of Portugal.

The owners of the villa wanted me to build something nice and simple, so I came up with a quick logo and art direction, then built the website in a week.

I also designed a postcard for them, and optimised the site through SEO. Traffic is good, with over 400 hits a month!

The site is available here, and click on the thumbnails to enlarge the pictures

Project to help University students to improve their writing skills.

The idea is to allow students to submit their essay through the website, get some feedback by professors or postgraduate students, and improve their writing before hand-in.

The site is still under construction, but the beta testing version is available here