Dr. Paul Bucci

Category: Archive

I started off as a print designer, somehow detoured into robotics, and am now studying privacy and trust. Here are some of my projects along the way.

  • Canadaland Guide to Canada

    I was the lead designer for Jesse Brown/Nick Zarzycki/Vicky Mochama’s Canadaland Guide to Canada.

  • Ubyssey Student Newspaper

    I got my start doing print work at the Ubyssey Student Newspaper. Working with the then-photo editor Goh Iromoto (who I later worked for as an editor, PA, and grip), we experimented a lot with the physical paper itself. Most of the time, we had access to only one or two spot colours and had to get clever.

  • Looking for Gods and Punishment

    I did consulting work for a digital humanities group, producing a python library for text processing and a visualization for the corpus. The project was to figure how far away words for the Gods were from words for punishment in ancient Chinese texts.

    You can view a working version of the visualization here.

  • Ubyssey Usable Business Cards

    For this year, the editors wanted business cards they could actually do something with other than just hand them out.

  • Miscellaneous logo design

    I designed a series of logos for different companies and people.

  • 2012 BFA Exhibition Catalogue

    In 2012, I was the lead designer for my graduating class exhibition catalogue. It was a lot of fun—they allowed me to spend the budget on a die cut cover and full gloss colour printing.

  • Set design

    A CAD model and hand-built maquette for the play Green Eyes.

  • The Syrup Trap

    The Syrup Trap was a mostly-online Canadian humour magazine. I was one of the founding editors, working mostly on audio/video projects, a single issue of a print magazine, and whatever other design work needed doing.

    The print magazine was illustrated by now New Yorker famous Zoe Si; I did all of the layout and design. Geist Magazine printed it for us and ran it in the centrefold.

  • Going forwards, moving backwards

    An installation at the Waterfront Canada Line station escalators. The piece was a computer-generated maze that had a hidden message that was viewable only through the red-tinted windows from across the street.

  • CiTR Radio

    For a number of years, I worked as the in-house designer for CiTR 101.9 FM radio. I created a number of ad campaigns, posters, and internal documents.

    The team wanted consistent internal branding, but also had a good sense of humour. For the org charts, they wanted a readable one (top) but then this ridiculous World Map of CiTR.

    One of my favourite projects was the annual FunDrive, where CiTR does a week of call-in donations to support the station. Each year was a different theme.

    A selection of posters, stickers, and brochures from the FunDrive.

    One of my personal favourites was a poster for Nardwuar the Human Serviette, who ran (still runs?) a weekly show at CiTR for years.