Design Portfolio | Mike Simpson

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About Mike
Bio | Resume

graphics | web
Frank Tours
Paradise Bound
SAF | Sick Clothing

music | video
Mikooshka
Simpson Music

writing | photos
Among the Cossacks
Ontario - Introduction

Clients / Projects
Paradise Bound
Marc Grainge
CCLCS
Frank Tours
Mikooshka
Strongandfree
Appco

Past
Skate Ontario
Sick Clothing
Berels Blues

Mikefolio | Bio and Resume

Mike interviewed on OLN TV program
TV appearance: interviewed to promote "Skate Ontario" magazine on Outdoor Life Network program “Extreme One Twenty”

Name: Mike / Michael Simpson aka Mikooshka

School:
University of Toronto
Geography Major, English Literature Minor
CCLCS Toronto
TESL Certificate

Cool job:
Entrepreneur, Sick Clothing (1996-2001)

Labour of Love job:
Editor, Skate Ontario (Writer, Designer)
Skateboard industry/community website (1996-2005)

People make me happy job:
ESL English teacher / ESL computer lab assistant (from 2002)

Computer Software – Audio / Graphics / Websites / Video
Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator / Dreamweaver
Sony Vegas, Acid and Sound Forge
Ableton Live

Hobbies / Interests: writing a blog for students (iam.strongandfree.ca), collecting currency, music, writing, IT / computers / gadgets

Sports / Activities:
Walking, hiking, cycling

A Few "Favourites"...

Interview: Henry Rollins at Rivoli Club, Toronto

Movies: Douglas Coupland’s ‘Souvenir of Canada’ documentary, “Let’s All Hate Toronto” documentary, Cinema Paradiso, Odd Man Out (dir. Carol Reed)

Music: Bob Marley, London Elektricity, New Order, Joni Mitchell, Billy Bragg, The Smiths

Art: McMichael Art Gallery, Kleinburg (Group of Seven), skateboard industry graphics, graffiti and street art in Toronto

Books: "Inside Passage" by Michael Modzelewski, Pico Iyer’s “The Global Soul”

Writers: Bill Bryson, Pico Iyer, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Hesse, Henry Miller

Recent Reading: Toronto writer Robert Ward’s “All the Good Pilgrims” (Camino Pilgrimage stories, Spain), Pico Iyer’s Dalai Llama book “The Open Road,” Canadian hockey coach Dave King’s “King of Russia”

Magazines: Walrus, Wired and Spacing (Toronto’s Public Space magazine),

Travels:
Florida, Vermont, Quebec, New York City, British Columbia, Costa Rica, and Russia (Favourite... 9,000 km cross-Canada road trip... Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, B.C. and back)