graphic
design &

various roles

Current CV here

2025–now:
Department of Letters,
Toronto ON
Type Designer, Consultant

2023–now:
George Brown College, SCHOOLOFDESIGN,
Toronto ON
Professor: Design+Production, Type, Communication

2023–2023:
Steer, Design for Movement,
Toronto ON
Senior Consultant: Wayfinding Design

2021–2023:
George Brown College, SCHOOLOFDESIGN,
Toronto ON
Professor (P⁄T): Type, Communication

2016–2023:
ERA Architects,
Toronto ON
Graphic Designer: Creative Services

2011–2016:
Design Studio and Freelance,
Toronto & Winnipeg
Designer & Illustrator: Brand Identity

volunteering

2023–now:
Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI),
Community/Country Delegate: Canada

2020–2023:
Royal Heraldry Society of Canada (RHSC),
Toronto Board of Directors

2016–2023:
Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD),
Design Mentor

2014–2017:
Reel Pride LGBTQ* Film Festival, Winnipeg,
Board Member: Marketing & Communications

2012–2016:
Pride Winnipeg Festival,
Graphic Design/Brand Manager

design work

Specimen sheet for MULLION HEAVY
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Full Signage System: Town of Huntsville (design inspired by local vernacular cottage signage)
Illustration work for TO360 mapping system.
Full recreation of historically significant marketing brochure: Royal York (Canadian Pacific), 1957.
When engaged in heritage conservation work, research and resources can sometimes be found in unusual places. One particular piece of important reference came in the form of a 24 page promotional booklet made for the first major addition and update to
FUGUE font revival derived from Roman Capitals in Pacioli's De Divina.
Carved stone wall, UofT, Simcoe Hall: FUGUE custom font.
Pinned letters installed at 234 Bay Street, historic Toronto Stock Exchange. Custom redrawn letters from archival research.
Custom redrawn letters from archival research.
CIRCULATION SERIF, final project at The Cooper Union: Post-Grad Certificate in Type Design (2021).
The Department of Bears: tote bag.
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Lombard Street interpretation and public art: mural design inspired by the historic uses of the site as related to the print industry and its evolving technologies through the 19th and 20th centuries. Presented as a series of overpainted ghost-signs,
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Special edition illustration for ARTSPACE Winnipeg foundation (2019).
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about me

Carl is a strategic visual communications and design professional with a focus on identities, environments, wayfinding, information, and type design. His work has been recognized by RGD, ATypI, Communication Arts, Applied Arts, and AIGA Eye on Design.

Faculty, George Brown SCHOOLOFDESIGN// Post-grad Type@Cooper, 2021// CA Award of Excellence, Type Design: 2022, 2025; Design Educator Award, 2026// Speaker: RGD DesignThinkers 2024; ATypI Copenhagen 2025// Member: ATypI, TDC, RGD, DesCan// ATypI Delegate (CA).


Carl also runs the studio foundry deptofletters.ca