Robert Barnes
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  • Boeing Endurance Racing Title Sponsor Livery (Concept) [March 2026]

    Boeing Endurance Racing Title Sponsor Livery (Concept) [March 2026]

    This concept was created for an assignment in which the premise was a company of our choosing that has a pre-existing presence in sports marketing is re-evaluating their current presence and it’s effectiveness, and we, as the agency are meant to evaluate their current plan and advise them on whether to continue forward, change their…

    March 29, 2026
  • “Not Everyone Can Be Home” (Sick Kids Campaign Concept) [March 2026]

    “Not Everyone Can Be Home” (Sick Kids Campaign Concept) [March 2026]

    Conceptualized as a campaign to increase donations leading into the holiday season, “Not Everyone Can Be Home” was meant to illustrate the empty space left by a loved one undergoing care in hospital during a time of year meant to be about family. As per the brief the campaign was meant to also illustrate DEI…

    March 24, 2026
  • Merchandise Campaign for Dylan Longworth [February 2026]

    Merchandise Campaign for Dylan Longworth [February 2026]

    The first client for AuraLink, Dylan’s merch was approached in a way that balanced his very at home DIY aesthetic (featuring his hand drawn stars and signature) with a modern streetwear aesthetic. During the brief with Dylan brand guidelines were established and a visual direction was chosen (taking the artwork from his most recent album…

    February 23, 2026
  • “The Mark We Leave” (Canadian Women’s Foundation Campaign Concept) [January 2026]

    “The Mark We Leave” (Canadian Women’s Foundation Campaign Concept) [January 2026]

    “The Mark We Leave” was conceptualized as part of an assignment to create a multi-platform digital campaign for the Canadian Women’s Foundation. The idea was based on the comparison of how people interact with social media and how they interact with classical art. By pairing a variety of famous classical art pieces (Pictured here are…

    January 24, 2026
  • Jacket Design for AuraLink.media [January 2026]

    Jacket Design for AuraLink.media [January 2026]

    The design of the AuraLink jacket was intended to take the Y2k inspirations of the brands visuals and play with them, spanning a variety of different presentations of both modern and oldschool type faces. The idea behind this was partially utilitarian, with the goal of creating a visually appealing design, but partially thoughtful in the…

    January 23, 2026
  • Contrasting Vintage Nature Sketches With Modern Design Cues [Art Concept Study 2025]

    Contrasting Vintage Nature Sketches With Modern Design Cues [Art Concept Study 2025]

    A series created using public domain sketches from antique nature guides (sourced from public.work). The idea was to blend my 2 favourite aesthetics at the time, that being these vintage depictions of natural life that I was so in love with, and neo-Y2K iconography and UI design cues. The third major element of it all…

    October 24, 2025
  • Branding For AuraLink.media [September 2025]

    Branding For AuraLink.media [September 2025]

    Branding for AuraLink was intended to be a balance of modern and clean, with a hint of Y2K aesthetics. The logo done in collaboration with artist Zlata Patrenko is an aesymetrical star paired with an edited san-serif type, adding break lines similar to that of a stencil (though it was just intended to diffrentiate the…

    September 23, 2025
  • MagChat Immersive Album Concept [2025]

    MagChat Immersive Album Concept [2025]

    Conceptualized as a way to tell an in depth story paired with music, MagChat was the name of a forum meant to act as a platform to worldbuild an environment to set a story within. The site presented itself as something similar to an early-internet forum with chatboards where people within the universe could communicate.…

    August 24, 2025
  • Rebranding campaign for Foodland Ontario (concept) [April 2025]

    Rebranding campaign for Foodland Ontario (concept) [April 2025]

    As an excercise in rebranding, we were tasked to do a rebranding campaign for Foodland Ontario (the company that pushes ontario made produce within the province). Our brief was to focus in on how Ontario produce can be used to create high-end dishes, attributing value to Ontario produce over other places. Our secondary goal was…

    April 25, 2025
  • “500 horsepower” Campaign for Mazda (concept ) (February 2025)

    “500 horsepower” Campaign for Mazda (concept ) (February 2025)

    The concept behind the “500 horsepower” campaign concept stemmed from playing with the concept of horsepower, and how many horses it takes to hypothetically match the power of 1 modern vehicle. While not a completely original idea, the execution here was what was meant to diffrentiate it from other usage of horse imagery in car…

    February 25, 2025
  • 2D and 3D Art Direction for ECHO.PARK [Personal Project, 2024]

    2D and 3D Art Direction for ECHO.PARK [Personal Project, 2024]

    ECHO.PARK was conceptualized from the start to have a very barren aesthetic defined by how it interacted with dead space. The first concept made for it was what would later become the final artwork for the EP, featuring 2 photos of the 2 collaborating musicians (myself and Batya Belle) blended over eachother and masked with…

    October 23, 2024
  • Art Direction for Afraid To Fall Asleep [Personal Project, 2023]

    Art Direction for Afraid To Fall Asleep [Personal Project, 2023]

    Afraid To Fall Asleep was an album conceptualized based on the insomnia episodes I occasionally experienced during my teen years. While this didn’t have as large an impact on the music as initially planned (due to having so many writers involved with the lyrical components), this massively sculpted aspects of the visual direction of the…

    October 24, 2023

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