Melanie Pyves

Melanie Pyves Graphic/Digital Designer. Crafter. Writer. Artist. Vegan. Font/Coding Nerd. Pattern Lover. Coffee Sn

Highly creative, motivated and versatile Toronto-based graphic designer with a passion for design and a love for all things DIY, local, history and artsy fartsy. I have experience in fashion, writing, social media, and marketing. My expertise includes textile design, surface design, digital media, coding/web design, promotion, chalkboard design, sign-making and hand-drawn typography. I find inspir

ation in many of my interests that include; vintage packaging/design, Toronto history, New York City History, fashion history, art history, textile design, photography, Instagram, typography, podcasts, design blogs, Pinterest and more. I enjoy challenging work and the opportunity to interact and exchange ideas with fellow creatives. Qualifications:
• 10 years experience Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
• 10 years experience in Graphic Design.
• 10 years experience with layout, typography, colour and brand standards.
• 10 years experience in the fashion, home, and lifestyle products industries.
• 10 years experience in social media tools and digital design.
• 10 years experience with e-commerce sites.
• 7 years experience with a Wacom drawing tablet.
• 4 years experience with gifs, Google/web ads, web banners, Mail Chimp & other online media.
• 3 years experience with Squarespace.
• Experience with Wordpress, HTML, CSS, and Responsive Design.

08/12/2023

You'll feel instantly creative when you try on these artsy earrings.

07/11/2022

Downtown Manhattan during the blizzard of 1888.

06/16/2022

Career ranger Virgil "Bus" Carrell had no design training, but "really gave a damn," say experts, about his lasting legacy.

04/02/2022

In the mid-’70s, the Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz borrowed his mother’s camera to record the camaraderie and the style of his high-school friends. He has continued to aim his compassionate lens on Black life throughout New York City ever since. On April 6th, the Bronx Museum opens a survey of his legendary career. http://nyer.cm/SHgBkvT

03/26/2022
03/26/2022

Influenced by fashion, music videos, and magazines, it’s no wonder there was such a wide range of design styles in the 90s. Keep reading to explore graphic design trends of the 90s.

03/26/2022
08/01/2021

Youth culture is known for rebellion. But insurgence may have hit a a fever pitch in 1970s Britain with the start of punk and the emergence of the punk aesthetic. Maintaining the ideology that “anyone can do it,” the young punks of the time began transforming the music scene from polished and pr...

08/01/2021

Bedfordshire Record Office of Cockerell marbling It's the DIY to rule them all: marbling. As in, those hypnotic patterns you find inside antique books, posh stationary, and packaging where it seems as if the whole of the colour spectrum has been syphoned through a kaleidoscope and poured onto a p

“Hilma af Klint has often been overlooked, but this seven-volume collection highlights her genius.”
03/14/2021

“Hilma af Klint has often been overlooked, but this seven-volume collection highlights her genius.”

03/12/2021
03/06/2021

These are not the balloon animals you got at a birthday party as a kid. This is next level stuff.

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