For the past few days I’ve been working far more furi­ously than you would think someone who is tech­nic­ally unem­ployed would be. But working for your­self on a freel­ance basis can be like that and I’m happy to have the work. I also have a couple of other pro­jects to wrap-up, so I’m not out of it yet.

But, earlier tonight I did finish the major phase of a web design project I’ve been doing for a client of mine (who’s also become a friend), and if you’re check­ing out this site you should check his out too. Allan Gallant will be billing himself the Airplane Guy, offer­ing a range of school out­reach pro­grams to stu­dents right in the classroom. He’s been involved in avi­ation and avi­ation edu­ca­tion for vir­tu­ally his entire life, most recently having been in charge of edu­ca­tion pro­grams at the Calgary Aerospace Museum. Laura and I were lucky to have been given fairly free reign of the Museum, as well as some per­sonal edu­ca­tion from Allan, as part of this project. The guy knows his stuff.

During the pho­toshoot for the site, we got to check out the insides of a few vintage air­craft (includ­ing one of only 17 Lancaster bombers left in the world (those things were huge flying deathtraps, by the way), as well as learn about both civil­ian and mil­it­ary avi­ation. It’s inter­est­ing just how much avi­ation as a subject can be adapted to vir­tu­ally all types of cur­riculum. Math, physics, history, social issues, polit­ics, among others–all can be taught in terms of aviation.

So if you’re a teacher, or know a teacher, check it out and/or pass it along.  I don’t get a kick­back or any­thing from this; I’m just hon­estly con­vinced that Allan will do good things with this project. If I was a kid, I’d be stoked to see a present­a­tion of the kind of mater­ial he loves to teach.

And if you like the fin­ished result of his site, maybe check out my own site and keep me in mind for any print or web pro­jects you need. This was a full brand­ing effort, with logo, ori­ginal pho­to­graphy, and a website from scratch, and I feel quite happy with all of it. Here are a few shots from the pho­toshoot I did with Laura’s assist­ance (Thanks babe!). There are more at the site.

Cheers,
Chris

p.s. — Only three more sleeps until we leave the country...