Adam Bourret

Design and development (also a cartoonist)

Featured Project

MBNA Special Offer

My Role: Designer, Co-Developer

MBNA Canada teamed up with RateSupermarket.ca for a special holiday offer. If users signed up with a new MBNA credit card, RateSupermarket would send them a $50 gift card. This special offer involved driving traffic to RateSupermarket with affiliate advertising, re-skinning the site to direct users and creating a custom order flow for the offer.

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Websites

The Savvy Reader

My Role: Designer, Co-Developer

The Savvy Reader is the official blog of Harper-Collins Canada. This was a tricky wordpress build with many custom features. I'm most proud of the bookshelf display on the home page.

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The official blog of Harper-Collins Canada
My Life Insurance Needs

My Role: Designer, Co-Developer

Manulife wanted to create a "white label" site that it could rebrand for various campaigns. In these mockups, the site is branded with banners and colors provided by Engineers Canada, one of Manulife's biggest clients.

Engineers visiting the site fill out information about themselves and are promised a Personalized Insurance Report. The report takes the form of a customized e-booklet, with the option to download as a PDF.

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An online life insurance guide for Manulife Financial
Kenneth Oppel

My Role: Designer, Developer

Kenneth Oppel is the author of many books for children and young adults, including the acclaimed Airborn and Silverwing series. Harper-Collins Canada asked me to overhaul Kenneth’s existing site with a new design and new features. This project had a lot of firsts for me, such as a custom-designed forum and flash game.

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The website of beloved children's author Kenneth Oppel
Rogers Microsites

My Role: Illustrator, Designer, Developer

Designing for Rogers Communications is kind of like owning a closet of clothes that are only red or gray. However, here are some examples of the many, many microsites I designed and built on their behalf.

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Various microsites for Rogers Communications
The Thousand Word Challenge

My Role: Designer, Developer

To celebrate the new edition of the Collins Canadian Dictionary, the dictionary hosted a short story contest, asking readers to include as many distinctly Canadian terms as they could. They asked me for two sites, one for the dictionary and another for the contest.

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A contest to promote the Collins Canadian Dictionary

Apps & Tools

RateSupermarket Widgets

My Role: Designer, Developer

RateSupermarket.ca asked me to design and build a suite of custom widgets to share with their network of affiliates. The widgets use data from the site to calculate savings on mortgages, credit cards and savings accounts. Simple and self-contained, the widgets have been very useful in driving traffic to the site. Here’s some of my favorites.

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Custom tools for Ratesupermarket.ca
Mortgage Rate Outlook Panel

My Role: Designer, Developer

This is an overhaul of one of RateSupermarket.ca’s most popular sections: the Mortgage Rate Outlook Panel. Here, a panel of experts discuss changing mortgage rates from month to month. I changed the structure of this page from a simple article to a nifty tool.

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Design and development for Ratesupermarket.ca

Print

Theatre Posters

My Role: Designer, Co-Developer

Nobody’s Business Theatre is an award-winning company based in Toronto. Every time they do a new show, I get to design the poster. Special photography credit for Greg Wong.

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Posters for Nobody's Business Theatre
Dance TO

My Role: Designer, Illustrator

The Dance TO Festival is a recently-christened celebration of dance that happens annually, culminating in the festival's biggest event: the public dance in Dundas Square. Working with the Dance TO committee I created this poster campaign to capture the spirit of the festival and its emphasis on public dancing. Each poster pairs an ordinary person with a member of Toronto's dance community.

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Posters for the 2009 Dance TO Festival
November

My Role: Illustrator, Designer

This is a series of prints comissioned by a private collector. I envisioned a collection of twenty-four inter-related illustrations, depiciting some strange events on a November day. Here are some of my favorites.

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Private Commission

Comics

Mighty Ernestine

This is my new graphic novel: Mighty Ernestine. It's the story of an abnormally large and nasty girl and the young man who tries to teach her to be friendly. No joke. It will make its debut in May 2012.

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My brand new book!
I'm Crazy

I'm Crazy iss my first graphic novel. 126 pages in length, it chronicles my lifelong struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

I'm very pleased with how I'm Crazy turned out. It won a 2009 Xeric Grant for comic book self-publishing, allowing me to do a large print run. The new edition won best comic at Expozine and was nominated for a Doug Wright Award and a Joe Schuster Award.

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My award winning first book
About Me

I’m a web designer and cartoonist living in downtown Toronto. In my time here I’ve worked with a variety of clients, including RateSupermarket.ca, Rogers Communications, adbeast inc, Harper-Collins Canada and Manulife Financial. I’ve also released a graphic novel called "I'm Crazy" and I’m working on another called "Mighty Ernestine."

I'm an excellent cook and a developing baker. On the dance floor, my enthusiasm helps compensate for a lack of sensuality. My dream is to become a creative force across many forms of media. My other dream is to own a donkey, which I’m looking into.