Janos Sitar’s Portfolio

My portfolio contains a mix of photography, illustration and video. I also do web design and development, please ask contact me (jsitar {at} gmail dot com) to get further information about that work. Have a look and let me know what you think!

Keith Sullivan Donald Architecture Inc.

Here’s the logo I created for the Keith Sullivan Donald Architecture Inc. site that I designed and built. The idea was to create a site that matched their design aesthetics, in particular, the embracing of light in space. I wanted the wordmark to almost have the appearance of a building where the “A” represents an entryway. Keith and Michelle wanted the amber stained glass background since coloured glass is used in some of their buildings, like at Immaculate Conception in Delta, BC.

Rosa Parks Improv

Over the summer I made graphics and cards for Rosa Parks Improv’s 2009 Victoria Fringe Festival appearance. In particular, they wanted to hand out business card-sized schedules that emulated the style of Mystery Date and buttons to sell at their show. Also, the group wanted a graphic that looked like it was spray painted on a wall like a stencil. After poking a couple of things, I came up with the foxasus graphic since they had a fox in their initial logo and I wanted to keep that. My thinking was if a horse with wings is a pegasus, then a fox with wings would be a foxasus. Oh, logic.

Here’s the complete Rosa Parks set on flickr

Light Art Painting

I organized a group of my photographer friends to meet at Kits Beach in Vancouver, BC to do a night shoot using flashlights, glow sticks and sparklers. I’d been interested in Light Art Painting for a while and was glad that so many shots turned out well. I wasn’t glad that I injured my ankle during the process, but what’s art without a little sacrifice?

Click here to see the full set on Flickr

Hell of a Wedding

I was the on-set photographer for the short horror comedy Hell of a Wedding and managed to capture some great shots of the zombies in action and waiting. The makeup was amazing and the zombies were all great models, there’s something about the makeup that just makes the most basic things seem either ridiculous or hilarious. George A. Romero, what have you done to the world? Given it something awesome. The film is done now and will have its first screening on Thursday Oct 28th, just in time for halloween.

click here to see the flickr set

Bruce Alexander and Christine Pryde

I had been sketching out some design ideas as a wedding gift for my friend Bruce and decided to scrap those entirely when I heard Christine describe the wedding as her Academy Awards. I took that statement and created these designs on the concept of the Oscars and the obligatory red carpet. I based the bride and groom on the clothes that Bruce and Christine had on that day.

Melissa Gobby and Richard Perron

For Melissa and Richard I designed their wedding invitations and photographed their wedding on August 15th, 2009. The idea for the exaggerated ampersand came from the fact that Melissa was pregnant during the wedding preparations and I wanted to stress the concept of joining together.

I was able to roam about during the ceremony and position myself to capture smaller moments. Melissa had initially asked me to be their photographer because she wanted a documentary feel to the photography. Please click on the links below to see their full Flickr sets:

Click here to see their wedding graphics

Click here to see their photographs

reVive Vocal Ensemble

I designed this logo for a women’s choir in West Vancouver. The group had already settled on their name and the capital V in the middle of the word by the time I came to this project, so I tried to incorporate it into the graphic. The colours were chosen to reflect the city of West Vancouver.

100 Years of Trains in White Rock – White Rock Museum + Archives

This exhibit was based on the museum’s history since it resides in the old White Rock train station. I drew a lot of inspiration from the graphic materials of the Great Northern Railway to blend the past with the present. I love old luggage tags and stickers, and wanted to make this poster have that feel. The inside joke is that the increasing font size from bottom to top actually represents the billowing smoke that would be coming from the train. This exhibit is still up, so if you’re in White Rock, then swing by and check it out!

click here to see the flickr set

The Bounty of Boundary Bay Exhibit – White Rock Museum + Archives

I was contacted by the White Rock Museum + Archives to design the information and photo panels for The Bounty of Boundary Bay exhibit that was up from February 6th to June 10th. Because the exhibit was about a large geographic space, I designed the panels and promotional materials around the concept of old maps that clearly separated water and land.

click here to see the full set of panels and my photos of the exhibit

Animating History – Museum of Vancouver

I ran the Animating History program at the Museum of Vancouver for the 2008/2009 school year. In the one day workshop students would produce a 1-2 minute cut out animation film about a local historical subject. On occasion we would do custom stories like the one above. The students were interested in producing a film about animal rights and we workshopped the story idea in about half a day and then animate the film on another day at the museum.