+ PRINT
+ WEB

+ MOTION
+ VIDEO


My first design job was hand painting signs in high school with my best friend in 1995. Still one of the all time best jobs if you ask me, I learned about typography and cutting clean lines with a brush.  I moved to Toronto where I went to school at Humber College, for Packaging and Graphic design. We studied all sorts of neat stuff, in particular print production and the industrial side of packaging, and pure graphic design. I was hired by a small packaging design studio (Forthought Design). After about 2 years the work dried up and I tried my hand at Stone Masonry, which was great but not a long term thing. I needed some adventure, so I moved to British Columbia to plant trees, fight forest fires, and live in the forest for a while before moving to Montreal. It was awesome and totally worth it.

When I arrived in Montreal, I knew one person. I found a student painter job, even though I wasn't a student. Then I got a lousy warehouse job driving a forklift. Eventually, this led to a hunger which compelled me to find a graphic design job at a small studio called Vector and Shift, where I slowly started becoming either expert or proficient at the following programs and skills :

 

One's "ability" to become bored easily can be harnessed and capitalized upon when speaking to an audience who is also bored easily.

 

Unknown speaker 2018
(its me, I said it)

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Jason Kessels
514 803 9508



I like being in over my head. It's really the only way to move forward with any seriousness.


In fact it's the only way I was able to learn how to design websites, motion graphics, app interfaces, or anything else I had never done before, which are now all the things I enjoy most.

At this point, in 2008 the economy basically collapsed and I began freelancing like an ocean of my highly competitive peers. I found work freelancing at Zed Graphic Communications, and basically got my ass politely kicked until I got better. I have spent many hours retouching, designing packaging and magazine ads, and doing lots of print production. I bought a decent camera so I would know what to ask photographers for, then a video camera, and a stack of After Effects plugins.

 

After 4 or 5 years, I searched for and found a full time job at Miralupa where I've been for the previous 4 years, art directing augmented reality apps, re-branding the company, producing motion graphics, logos and print collateral, and designing all of their websites with my genius web-programmer (now girlfriend - high five). I have been super lucky to get to design user and app interfaces, conceptualize 3D augmented reality projects, and I've put a lot of my own time into learning video production / editing and in particular motion graphics.

I still freelance for Zed, Miralupa and a few others, but you're reading this because:


I'm upping my game, and applying all of the skills I've been cultivating over the past years to some new projects, I'm reaching out to see what happens. I am also beginning to do creative consultancy for augmented reality end-users and producers, and I'm super stoked to art direct or design anything exciting, working with some new and awesome folks in some new and awesome places.

UNCONVENTIONAL

DUDE

 

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+ WEB

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Jason Kessels
jason@curiouskessels.com

514 803 9508

One's "ability" to become bored easily can be harnessed and capitalized upon when speaking to an audience who is also bored easily.

 

Unknown speaker 2018
(its me, I said it)

When I arrived in Montreal, I knew one person. I found a student painter job, even though I wasn't a student. Then I got a lousy warehouse job driving a forklift. Eventually, this led to a hunger which compelled me to find a graphic design job at a small studio called Vector and Shift, where I slowly started becoming either expert or proficient at the following programs and skills :